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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