Diagnosis... on the tongue

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Diagnosis... on the tongue

The appearance of the tongue can tell a lot to an experienced specialist. But it turns out that you can determine the state of your health by your tongue yourself. And also find out whether it is possible to treat with taste, how and why to clean your tongue. True, this will require some special knowledge...

Self-diagnosis lessons

Based on the condition of your tongue, you can independently determine which organs are not in order. Various diseases leave traces on it. Externally, they appear on the tongue in different ways: this is a coating, redness, enlargement of various zones, and curvature of the folds. Each zone of the tongue is associated with a specific organ.

A curvature of the fold at the tip of the tongue signals cervical osteochondrosis. Most likely, this is the result of a sedentary lifestyle, working for a long time with a computer or at a desk. A bend in the fold in the middle of the tongue is lumbar osteochondrosis; it usually affects professional drivers and people who spend a lot of time behind the wheel.

Redness of the tip of the tongue is a sign of weak cardiac activity, beginning of coronary artery disease. Diseases of the pulmonary system can be judged by changes at the edges of the tongue, closer to the tip. Heart and lung diseases most often affect smokers, therefore, such changes in the tongue are a serious reason to quit smoking.

Teeth imprints on the tongue are a sign of dysbacteriosis and slagging in the body. In this case, it is worth changing your diet, eating less fatty and fried foods. To bring order to the body, you can take different herbal infusions.

Trembling of the tongue is a manifestation of neurasthenic syndrome. The advice here is this: try to improve the psychological situation at home, at work, and change your lifestyle.

Cracks in the tongue can indicate various diseases of the blood, endocrine system, and kidney pathology. This is where we need to check most seriously.

A sign of problems in the body is a decrease in taste sensations. There are zones on the tongue that are responsible for the reaction to sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. If a person stops feeling any of these tastes, then we can talk about diseases of the nervous and endocrine systems.

A swollen tongue that looks larger and thicker than usual can indicate both inflammation of the tissues of the tongue itself and swelling in the body.

The tongue becomes “grainy” or “spiky” when the papillae become enlarged or thickened. If thickened papillae – “grains” – are localized on the tip of the tongue, you need to pay attention to the heart and be examined by a cardiologist; at the edges - it’s worth checking the liver and gall bladder; in the middle part, the stomach and intestines suffer.

A “mirror” tongue occurs when the surface of the tongue becomes smooth and shiny. This happens with anemia, exhaustion or severe stomach disease.

A dry and rough surface of the tongue often occurs with allergies.

Color of disease

A normal tongue looks soft and tender, its movements are not constrained, the color is pink, and the coating is normally thin, white and moderately moist.

With certain diseases, the color of the tongue changes. Thus, a dark red tongue indicates probable pneumonia, severe acute infectious disease, high temperature caused by infection, ischemia or poisoning.

A raspberry tongue signals the same diseases as a red one, but in a more severe form.

A purple tint means that a severe infectious disease, disturbances in the circulatory and respiratory systems are possible.

A thick white coating indicates food retention in the intestines, i.e. about constipation that has not yet become chronic.

Yellow plaque indicates serious digestive disorders.

The more intense the color and thicker the plaque, the more serious the disease and the likelihood of permanent accumulation of food in the stomach and intestines.

A grayish coating indicates chronic, imperceptible diseases of the stomach and intestines. Dehydration and disruption of the acid-base balance in organs and tissues (increased acidity) are also possible.