Is Your Tongue Healthy? Recognize It In These Pictures!

Is Your Tongue Healthy?

1.Healthy tongue

The color of a healthy tongue is uniformly pink, it is wet, without coating, spots, furrows and ulcers. This shows, that stomach and digestive system are well and functioning properly. All signs below aren’t sufficient for diagnose, but all the same, consult a doctor.

2.Light, white-yellowish coating

Such tongue shows some of the following problems: poor functioning of liver and gastrointestinal tract, decreased acidity, stomach ulcer.

3.A thick layer of white coating

This is not a good sign, and means that certain systems in your body are not properly functioning. It is possible to have a viral infection.

4 .Yellow coating

This type of coating shows problems with liver or bile. It can also be a sign of food retention in body, or bad food processing.

5 .Uneven coloring - tongue, covered with furrows

"Geographic" tongue - a clear sign of disease in the gastrointestinal tract. If the furrows  are very deep, it means increased sulfur content in blood.

6 .White, or slightly white tongue

It is related to a problem with the digestive system, and you can experience cold hands or feet, fatigue, bloating, loose stools etc. If the color is pretty white and the tongue is dry, it can mean a shortage of blood, which is usually accompanied by a sense of anxiety, dizziness, poor memory, insomnia, chapped lips, anemia.

7.Red tongue

Bright red tongue always means an infection in the body. The red dots over the tongue can show fever , or inflammation. In children, the immune system may also react in that way, in response to the infection. Dark red tongue indicates a kidney problem, or intoxication.

8.Tongue with red tip

The tip of the tongue is known as the region of ​​the heart. If there is no other signs, the red tip may be result of emotional disturbance.

9.Tongue with red edging

This kind of color shows excessive use of spicy or fatty foods, alcohol. According to Eastern medicine, such coloring can be a result of anger.

10.Violet

This color indicates vitamin B12 deficiency. The same color can occur in women with heavy menstruation, or in people who have severe chronic pain.

11.Blue, bluish tongue

If your tongue is such color, you should immediately consult a doctor. It is a sign, that tissues have a serious deficiency in oxygen. It may also shows  a cardiovascular disease, a lesion of blood vessels, problems with the heart or respiratory tract.

12.Yellow tongue

If such coloring lasts for a long time, this indicates a problem with the liver, or bile. If only the front part of the tongue is yellow, it is a clear sign of hepatitis.

13 .Greenish tongue

This color can appear when you have highly intoxication of the body.