A STUDY OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF TONGUES IN HOMEOPATHY

In homeopathy, a tongue can lead you to the right remedy for a patient,

usually more relevant for acute or recent conditions.

Here’s a simple guide for the different types of tongues for some remedies,

that help us in choosing the closest match.

• Clean with nausea: Asarum europeum, Ipecacuanha, Sulphur

• Clean or slightly coated: Ipecacuanha

• Clean with spasms stomach: Magnesia phos

• Coated tongue with teeth imprints: Yucca fil, Mercurius

• Cold flabby trembling: Camphor

• Cold with cold breath: Carbo veg

• Cold flabby trembling: Camphor

• Cracked and bleeding: Arum triphyllum, Borax

• Dirty greenish grey/ brown coating: Natrum sulph

• Dirty, morning: Morgan g

• Dry black trembles, protruded with difficulty: Lachesis

• Dry cracked ulcerated: Baptisia, Bryonia, Mercurius

• Dry as if burnt: Bryonia

• Dry, red and shining, burning at the tip: Terebinth, Belladonna, Kali bichromicum, Nux moschata, Argentum nit

• Edges coated, shrunken, dry leather like, paralysed: Muriatic ac

• Fiery red, smooth, polished: Crotalus horridus, Pyrogenium

- Swollen intensely: Crotalus horr

• Golden yellow coating at the base: Natrum phos

• Greenish grey coating at the base: Natrum sulph

• Large flabby with teeth imprints: Chelidonium, Hydrastis can, Merc sol, Podophyllum, Rhus tox

• Mapped: Lachesis, Mercurius, Natrum mur, Taraxacum, Ranunculus scleratus

- Red insular patches : Natrum mur

- White film, feels raw; film comes off in patches, leaving dark red very sensitive spots : Taraxacum, Ranunculus bulbosus

• Thick milky white coating: Antimonium crudum, Antim tart

• Thick yellow with red edges, showing teeth imprints: Chelidonium, Podophyllum

• Thick yellow coating at the base: Kali bich, Merc protoiodide

• Tip and edges red: Merc protoiodide

• Red: Morgan pure

• Red edges, papillae; red and dry middle: Antim tart

• Red streak down the middle: Veratrum viride

• Ringworm on the sides: Arsenicum alb, Lachesis, Mercurius, Natrum mur, Nitric acid, Taraxacum

• Smooth, glossy red: Terebinth, Pyrogenium

• Very red, swollen with little coating: Diptherinum

• White coated with red papillae and dry yellow brown centre: Baptisia

• White or yellow, with red streak in the middle: Veratrum viride

These are just some of the tongues, but this study is exhaustive in

homeopathy.

Hope this is a precise and helpful guide for all of you who use homeopathy at

home for their families.

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