My Acupuncturist: Your heart's out of balance.
Me: How do you know?
Her: Your face is red and you talk a lot.
Me: Really???
Her: Yes. Now, show me your tongue.
And round and round we go.
Turns out, my tongue is disgusting. Something I knew going in, but her reaction confirmed it. In her words, it is exhibiting signs of both heat and dampness (white fur=dampness; red dots=heat).
See what I mean?
I know. Lovely...
The tip tilts down; the end is red. In Traditional Chinese Medicine that indicates heart imbalance, dampness with heat. In Western Medicine that indicates oral thrush (candida overgrowth). Either way, it's not good. It's also starting to burn--yippee. Time to bust out the coconut oil and do some oil pulling.
On a separate note, treating for parasites (both with meds and acupuncture) is bringing interesting results. For a while, I've seen all sorts of things "exiting the building," but today's find proved most fascinating--three different types of something: one papery, one worm-like, and one resembling algae. I'm starting to feel like a CSI Investigator.
Not bad for a girl who's got nothing wrong with her...LOL.
Altered Today: Sharing the yuck, realizing I need a manicure and a lip wax
But you have gorgeous teeth :)
This is so neat. My tongue burns to high heaven, but looks normal. Sometimes it burns so bad I want to cut it off. I do have indentations on the sides of my tongue from my teeth and sometimes my tongue feels fat. But so far, no white.
I've been taking an antiparasite remedy for a while, and I wonder if that's what is causing my pm fevers. On days I forget to take it, I don't get a fever.
Posted by: Pam | 07/19/2011 at 08:54 PM
Congratulations on the worms! You would make one helluva detective! Hope you're doing well!
Posted by: Laina | 07/20/2011 at 03:09 AM
Thanks, Pam. Sorry to hear about your burning. I've never had that experience. Swishing with coconut oil DEFINITELY helps. Has calmed things down a lot for me. Also, thanks for the compliment on the teeth. When I looked at the picture, my first thought after gross was "Well, at least your teeth look nice...lol." Hope you are doing ok. Thinking of you.
PS Laina, I love you. Thanks for always knowing just what to say. You always make me smile. XOXOX
Posted by: Alter Everything | 07/20/2011 at 10:00 AM
Great post! Sharing the yuck is important. Love you!
Posted by: Melissa | 07/20/2011 at 02:08 PM
I have to say that your 3 little friends clean up well;) Love ya bunches!
Posted by: Debbie Semarge | 07/21/2011 at 10:27 PM
Team L...you're going DOOOOOWWWWNN!!! Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But, mark my words...Kathy is going to kick your a$$ from here to healthy. (Love you friend.) ;)
Posted by: Melissa | 07/23/2011 at 08:04 AM