Tongue Tales : A Homoeopathic Perspective 

ANT CRUD-  Milky white thick  coating

ANT TART– Pasty thick white coating with red papillae edges

APIS-  Fiery red, swollen and raw with vesicles

ARUM – Strawberry like

BAPTISIA-  White and red papillae, dry and yellow brown in centre, dry and glistening edges ,surface cracked and sore

BELLADONNA – Strawberry coloured

BRYONIA – Dry parched , coated in centre and  red at base

CHELIDONIUM –  Yellowish  with imprint of teeth ,  large and  flabby

CINA – Clean

FLUORIC ACID – Fissured in all directions

IPECAC- Clean or slightly coated

KALI MUR-  Whitish grey  coating

LAC CAN- White coating with bright red edges

MERCURIUS- Mapped with imprint of teeth , large and flabby

NATRUM MUR–  Mapped with red insular patches like ringworm on sides

NAT SULPH- Dirty Greenish coating

NITRIC ACID-  Clean, fissured in all directions with central furrow

NUX VOM- Anterior half clean, posterior coated with deep fur, yellowish white  cracked edges

NUX MOSCHATA–  dryness so marked  that it adheres to the soft palate

PYROGEN –  smooth as if varnished , clean and large

RHUS TOX– Dry, red, cracked, triangular red tip with  imprint of teeth

SANICULA– large flabby with burning heat that must  be protruded to keep it cool and with ringworm

TARAXACUM– mapped tongue coated with a white film and red patches

VERATRUM VIRIDE– red stripe in the centre

Worked By – Dr. Nazia Ansari (BHMS)