Circle on tongue

[hippiegirl]

Hi Shelley,
Well, after reading about tongues on the forums and went and looked at mine and along with a deep divide down the middle I have a circle about the size of a penny that is defined and much darker and smoother than the rest of my tongue. Hmmm, now what is up, eh? Help!!!
hippiegirl

[shelley]

wherever that circle is, is representing a cold organ or stomach with depleted tissues - lack of B vits and A primarily.

[hippiegirl]

Is there a tongue chart somewhere that I could reference as to location of organs that correspond with the tongue? Maybe this is why I feel run down.

[shelley]

I haven't found a good one online yet and was hoping to draw one myself one of these days. Since none of the diagrams I've seen totally agree with each other I'm not sure how accurate any of them are. Basically, tho, based on my experience with what gets clean based on what I've cleansed and Ayurvedic tongue diagostics, the further back on the tongue you go, the further into the colon you get. The further forward you get, the more you get to the stomach. The middle is mostly small intestine. Sides are lungs. The very tip is the heart/esophagus.

[hippiegirl]

I would call it the middle, on my right side. So that is the small intestines? What is the remedy? B's and vitamin A? I am also cold most of the time. Is this related?

[shelley]

Yep, it's related. All of the skin food and digestive enzymes, and pungent therapy - see the FAQ, Vital Health Management, for that. You need to warm up! Avoid raw foods apart from the Protein Shake and fermented foods.

[hippiegirl]

Shelley,
Thanks so much for replying so quickly to my novice questions. I have learned a great deal from this site and missed you greatly when you moved from curezone.
I was wondering about juicing fruits and vegetables? They are raw, but don't stress digestion like the whole vegetable. Can they be included in the the pungent therapy? I usually juice carrot, spinach, celery, cucumber and ginger 3-4 times a week. I want to do whatever will make it better.
I have a bowl of kichadi in my frig and am making Moroccan chicken soup tonight. Previously, I had been eating 2 large raw salads a day along with lean chicken for lunch and dinner. I am trying to align my eating with your suggestions, so suggest a way......
Thanks,
Hippiegirl

[hippiegirl]

Besides that, the other people in my office are about to kill me for turning up the heater all the time.

[shelley]

You can make raw juices suitable by adding things like ginger, cayenne, curry or garlic - that warms them right up! and if you actually heat them just a little bit, that helps too. Be sure to *chew* your juices, saliva warms them too. And if you add a bit of cream or a dose of oil, you warm them up caloric wise and increase absorption of nutrients.

Instead of raw salads, switch to cooked salads like lentil pilaf, quinoa pilaf; fermented veggies like sauerkraut or cortido; cucumber marinated in ACV; basic veggies... all of these are tremendously supportive and healing of the stomach and small intestine.

[hippiegirl]

Shelley,
Can you explain to me how to be sure that you have a balanced protein. I think you said that the ratio should be 1 to 4. When eating something like quinoa pilaf do you need to worry about completing the protein in that meal? Or is it complete? I'm confused.
Thanks

[shelley]

When getting protein from mostly vegetarian sources, the ratio of 4 to 1 means if you have 1 cup of grains/rice, you should have 1/4 cup of legumes such as peas or garbanzo beans or mung beans with it. That gives you every essential amino acid, the ones your body cannot make for you.

If you cook the grains in a chicken bone broth, that heightens the availability of the protein tremendously. Then you really only need to add a single slice off of a chicken breast, or small piece of fish, or a single egg, to have a complete meal and enough protein for the entire day. It's like eating a rice bowl or paella, basically.

Quinoa is *nearly* a complete protein, it's a very complex grain in and of itself so it's okay to just have quinoa and veggies every now and again. Rice is very simple, more carb than protein, so it's best to have legumes and/or chicken/fish with rice.

Hope that makes sense!

[AgnesT]

I hope you don't mind me throwing in my 2 cents worth here...Your circle sounds like the bare patches my daughter and I get on our tongues which the dr and dentist call geographic tongue. I have seen all kinds of info about what to do about it. Shelley always has the best advice. I just thought you might like to have a name to google on....