Learn How To Read Your Body By Looking At Your Tongue
Part 1: Color
Warning: We are going to be
learning really cool things, but you will need to be okay with looking at
tongues and learning what 4,000 years of experience has taught practitioners of
Acupuncture.
In
Acupuncture, which is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the tongue is a
vital part of diagnosing patients’ conditions and the quality of their
health.
Acupuncture
is based on any imbalance in our body, mind and spirit. Imbalance is usually described as:
- Being too hot, or too cold
- Having too much energy in your system, or too little
- Being driven by an internal problem, or an external problem
- Being too Yin, or too Yang. (In this article, we will focus on the first three imbalances.)
Whenever
something is too hot, it is manifest by the color red. If it is too cold, it is manifest by
the color white, or paleness. If
the condition is caused by too much energy, there will be a dark color. If there is too little energy, there
will be a pale color.
So,
what can your tongue tell you about your health? There are many tongue
characteristics that indicate the quality of your health. This article will
help you to identify imbalance in your system by monitoring your tongue’s
color.
The
tongue is broken down into areas. Use this chart as a guide to where the
imbalance is:
If
your tongue is normal, your health is mostly good:
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If
your tongue is red, you have too much heat inside your body:
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If
your tongue is too pale, you are lacking energy somewhere in your system:
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If
you have a purple tongue it means you have blood congestion in the body
(compare the color to the “normal” tongue, rather than to the dark tongue):
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Watch your
tongue every day: If you see that it is out of its normal range, come in to get
your body back on track before you actually get sick. By learning to watch your tongue, you are beginning to
practice true preventive health care.
-Dr. O.
