In accordance with Oriental medicine, I would like to discuss how one can check his or her health by examining the tongue and the inside of the mouth.
1. If you have a coating on your tongue – Make sure to cool down your heart temperature. Fur on the tongue usually means high temperature around the heart, which pushes the fever up to the tongue. Measles, dehydration, malnutrition and eating too many strong foods can also cause this problem.
2. If your tongue often develops a coating – Cool down your overall body temperature. Just by looking at the color of the coat around your tongue, we can tell the status of your health; the whitish coat indicates a serious health trouble, and the dark coat means the dangerous status of the health.
3. If inflammation appears around the tongue – Try to strengthen your stomach and spleen. If the stomach or the spleen system gets weaker, inflammation appears. If having some fever on the heart, inflammation rises easily just by a little tiny scratch on your tongue. If you have a usual inflammation on only one spot, you need to have the organ relating to the part of the tongue checked; the end of tongue relates to the heart, the both edges to the stomach and spleen then back to the liver.
4. If not having the proper color of the tongue – Lack of blood. Pernicious anemia makes the tongue reddish and glossy. Too much yellow on the tongue usually indicates jaundice.
5. If tooth marks are on the tongue – Fever on the heart swells the tongue. A tooth mark on the tongue shows off not because you bite your tongue, but because teeth press the swollen tongue, which is mainly caused by a weak kidney when the kidney doesn’t work well for a diuretic effect.
6. If the inside of the mouth gets severely dried up, the high temperature of the body causes dehydration. Oriental medicine calls this situation “Lots of Anger.” Anger causes fever, which takes moisture away from the human body. This problem usually happens to those who have high blood pressure and diabetes.
If you have further questions, call Elim Asian Medicine & Acupuncture Clinic at 661-287-0006.