Dr. Tabatha Barber explains tongue diagnosis in Chinese medicine, a 2,500-year-old practice. A healthy tongue is flat, pink, and smooth; swelling, scalloping, discoloration, or coating can signal physical imbalances, emotional states, or inherited factors.
Absolutely. I know that you want to ask what the heck is with the tongue, right? Yeah, let's hear it. All right. So yeah, so I study Chinese medicine. So in Chinese medicine, I mean, the Chinese have really— what they've been doing is for over 2,500 years. There's so much ancient wisdom, which is beautiful. And God perfectly designed our bodies, and often we're trying to override what our bodies are trying to suggest to us and to tell us and to teach us. Because we just don't want to feel it. We don't want to look, we don't want to see it. And we're like, you know, so anyways, but the tongue, you stick your tongue out, your tongue should lay flat as you stick it out. It shouldn't be super skinny, it shouldn't be swollen, there shouldn't be scalloping on the side of the tongue, there shouldn't be a straight line down the middle of your tongue, coating on your tongue, it should be like a beautiful light pink color, no horizontal lines. So all of those markings on the tongue can indicate different things going on physically in the body, and those physical things can be tied back to an emotional thing going on within the body, um, whether it's your own or something you inherited through lineage as well. So that's a whole nother piece that we play with, but it is a great indicator of what could be going on internally.
