My tongue is sending me messages.....

[Paul]

.....and I`m confused. Thanks to your ideas, I am slowly healing up the
cracks on my tongue. Lots of skin food ...water fasts,etc.

But my tongue is still baffling me. I have had a coated tongue for a few
years....it may have even been coated before, and I just noticed it over the
last few years. In any event, what CLEARS my tongue is Julia Changs liver
herbs...bupleurum and gentian...BUT...It goes back to a light white coating
down the centre from the back to near the front after a few days off her
liver cleansing....I have tried a couple of weeks solid and within days it
regresses.

My diet is excellent and I don`t consume sugar,alchohol etc etc.
Fasts make the tongue coating worse, as does a cold....I know that this is
a symptom of toxins but how could I still have toxins after all my cleansing
(two rounds of a week of colosan) and pampering my liver for the last couple
of years.
I should add, that I am the guy who went into Hepatitis a few years
back as result of taking Sulfa antibiotics.

One more thought......my digestion is now so improved that I am ten
pounds heavier than ever in my life....this is good for me...I was always a
little thin. So, I don`t think digestion is the issue.

Stool color has now become a normal dark brown and my Ibs symptoms
are gone due to meditation, colosan, liver herbs....so I think my liver
is fine.

This tongue thing is really a puzzle to me.....what ups with that.

[shelley]

The body doesn't lie! If your tongue coat comes back quickly, then that means that there is still weakness or congestion somewhere. Perhaps not the liver anymore, maybe it's more with stomach acids or digestive enzymes, but I'd try a tablespoon of lecithin a day to ensure fats are getting emulsified properly. Or perhaps you still need to do a fiber-based intestinal cleanse.

in any case, you definitely still need to include plenty of pungent herbs/spices with your foods. And you might want to consider taking Swedish Bitters prior to your main meals and see what that does.

[AgnesT]

I have a similar problem. I have a few symptoms that are relieved but not eliminated by Planetary Form's Liver cleanse. As soon as I stop taking it, they come right back. Have I not taken it enough, or should I switch to Livatone? (I have used lots of tylenol, other otc drugs, some illegal ones, and alcohol) Or do I just need to keep flushing? I am still getting out stones.

[shelley]

Keep flushing and keep taking herbs. Once you are done with the bottle of planetary formula, switch to livatone plus or liv.52, or Julia Chang's tinctures. They all do different things and so a change may be good.

[AgnesT]

Sounds like a good plan. Thanks, Shelley!

[AgnesT]

I have been looking at the liver formula's and I'm really confused about which one to choose! Left to my own devices, I probably would have chosen Livatone , not Livatone Plus. I looked at the ingredients and LP looks kind of like a multi-vite. And Liv. 52 has some really interesting things in it! Assuming I want to get out drugs, alcohol, which one should I get??

[shelley]

LP does look like a multi-vitamin because a lot of the vitamins are necessary for metabolism, breaking down old compounds, and breaking down fats. Either LP, or just plain Livatone, or Liv.52 would be appropriate for helping your liver take out old drugs, so go with your intuition - the more you trust it the more powerful it gets - or whichever one is most convenient to buy really.