Do you have ever thought about the white mosses on the tongue?
Lots of people have a coated tongue with white mosses or yellowish mosses
or brown mosses or dark and black mosses. What does the moss mean in physiology?
We can confrim the meaning of moss through treatment case.
What does coated tongue mean in physiology?
It means over-humidity in the body
The conception of humidity is in the East Asian Medicine.
It means a consequent thing from the failure of Ki(bioenergy) . And
sometimes it comes from over taking water or foods.
The humidity is an obstacle for normal Ki flow and finally it produces
various symptoms according to the conditions of body. For your
easy understanding, I compare to fog. Suppose that you are walking
in the street on foggy morning. You will notice that your clothes are
getting wetty and crumpled. And you will feel your body is heavy
with the wetty clothes. This is the physiology of humidity.
It grows as the moss does!
If the moss grows in safe, the humidity is necessary. As same as
this, the mosses on the tongue could grow under humid
circumstance.
When the moss budgeon, it is white. And as it grows so it gets green
and brown and black and at last dies. In the same manner, the
color of coated tonuge shows the status of internal organs.
I think the eye-inspection on the tongue is more important than
medicla examination because the signs from the tongue show the
process of symotoms. For example, though everything is normal in
medical report, if the mosses on the tongue show dark brown or
black, the disease is going on.
What kind of signs do the doctors of Korean Medicine infer from the tongue?
If I explain the details I should write a book. I briefly say the points
of inspection.
The white mosses mean the body is in humidity and in cold.
The yellow in humidity and fever on somewhere in body.
The brown in humidity and some sort of diseases are going on.
The black in humidity ( vertually not humid but dry, think of dried
moss!) and in falling
What kind of symptoms does the humidity make in body?
If the over-humidity stays in
the brain : heavy, dull pain, migrain and failure of memory
if it goes on, brain edema will apear.
Uterus : leucorrhea or cyst or myoma
Spine : herniation of interverevral disc, stenosis
Eye : xerophtalmia
Ear : dizziness, noisy sound
Nose : runny nose, stuff up, empyema, rhinitis
Throat : sputum, sore throat
Shoulder and other muscles : dull pain
Stomach : nosea
Small intestine : devastated blood
Large intestine : diarrhea
Bladder : difficulty in urination
Anus : bad smell, hemorrhoid
Lung: out of breath
Heart : pupitation, heart attack
Liver : fatty liver, atopy, autoimmune, arteriosclerosis
Digetive organs : uneasiness of abdomen
Kidney : stone, renal failure, high blood pressure
What dose produce humidity?
Unbalance of Five Organs
Drinking much water for the required
Foods whose character is to containing moisture.
Poor Ki (bioenergy)
Poor blood circulation
Long times of stay in humid place
Others.
Now we read the case that caused migrain and difficulty of memory
as follows.
The man who has thick and white coated tongue had had various
symptoms for a few years. The symptoms will goes to hypertention
or heart attack if it is not treated further.
1. Personal Information(04397)
Oh, 0 0, aged 21
Student
Address : kangnamgu dogokdong, Seoul, Korea
2. Chief Complaints
Cannot feel energy in fingers and toes.
Always sleepy
A dull pain on head and poor memory
Dizziness when raising his body from sitting.
For above symptoms he had been treated several times in first
class hospitals. His mother who is a nurse had been worked in
operation room. So she knew that those symptoms should be
treated by herbal presription.
3. Other Symptoms and Signs
Sometimes constipation sometimes diarrhea
Central and upper abdominal pain with finger press
Dark circle
Pulse : long, large,strong, a little floated
Tongue : Thick and white overall of the tongue.
4. Diagnosis
Congestive Liver
Small haert
Humidity of digestive organs.
5. Pathology
The symptoms are mainly caused by poor blood circulation.
And the circulation is also affected by humidity
6. Prescription
The herbs should be cool and dry.
7. Result
1st
Mainly to get rid of humidity and accompanied to improve
circulation. As a result, he had no dull pain on head and got up
early without trouble.
This result make his father send all of his emplyees to Harabi
Clinic to get herbal prescription instead of incentive money.
2nd
8 months later, he came again. I could confirm that the moss is
thinner than before. Also he got the prescription.
3rd
2 years later after fist visit, he came again. He had been abroad
for study. Still the moss is thick all over his tongue, so I warned
him that he had take care of his renal failure.
He said that he had already felt some troubles in his kidney.
When he come back after study, he will visit Harabi Clinic.