Repertory of Tongue Symptoms



Polygonum. – Tongue feels as if swollen, a burning from its root to the pit of the stomach.

Polyporus off. – Coated white or yellow; bitter, nauseous taste.

Psorinum. – Dry; coated white; yellow; thickly covered with whitish-yellow slime; tip dry, feels scalded.

Plelea trifol. – Burning, prickling; dryness; white fur, swollen; coated with a yellowish fur; papillae red and prominent; brownish- yellow; yellow along the center and base; scalded feeling; in- flamed.

Pulsatilla. – White or yellow, and coated with tenacious mucus; parched, dry, no thirst; parched and coated gray; feels in middle as if burned, even when moist, night and morning; feels too broad; feels too large; edges feel sore and as if scalded.

Pulsatilla Nutt. – Yellowish coating on the tongue, along the center; slimy coating on tongue, with offen- sive breath.

Ranunculus sc. – Exfoliated in spots, which are raw; both sides of the tongue denuded, like islands, the rest thickly coated; tip smarting.

Rheum, – Numb, insensible.

Rhus tox, – Not coated, but very dry; dry, red, cracked; triangular red tip; white, often on the side; yel- lowish; covered with brown mucus; parched or brown; takes imprint of teeth.

Rhus ven, – Scalded feeling of the tongue, salty, flat, rough taste; center and base coated white, the sides are very red; vesicles on the under side of the tongue with a scalded feeling.

Rumex cr, – Coated white, yellowish-brown or reddish- brown; dry; feels as if scalded or burnt.

Sabadilla, – Coated white, the tip is bluish; thick yellow, sore; white in center; moist (during fever); can- not be protruded (with sore throat); painful all the way down the throat; burning tip; feels sore, as if full of blisters.

Sanguinaria Can, – Coated white (with slimy, fatty taste) red, feels as if in contact with something hot sore; pain like a boil; tip burns as if scalded prickling; sore, stitches on the left side of the tongue.

Sanguinaria nit, – Bitter taste on root of tongue; slight acrid burning sensation.

Santonine. – Loaded tongue; tongue deep red, without coating.

Secale – Yellowish- white, dry, thick, tenacious coating; discolored, brown or blackish; deathly pale; spasm of tongue, projecting it from mouth, forcing it between teeth and rendering speech indistinct; frequently torn by the most violent convulsions; painful, tingling, stifling the voice; slight but unpleasant warmth during the day; a sort of paralysis, embarrassing speech con- siderably; gangrene; bruised feeling.

Sempervivum, – **A sickly woman had, about the * change of life,* a swelling on right margin of tongue, scirrhus, size of a small bean, with burning pain after shutting her mouth, occasionally bleeding, invariably at night; the swelling was not hard, but like a cyst; had two small knots, each size of a lentil; over the swelling were three varicose veins; two drops of the 2d, daily, reduced the tumor to one- third the size, in ten days; menstruation reappeared, continuing five days; tumor diminished to the size of a small pea, and became gradually’ less sensitive. Ulcer on the tongue, three-quarters to one-half inch deep, oval, sharp edges, hard foundation, of a bluish color, with four knots, size of lentils, two large veins, sensitive to touch and while eating; local applications reduced the size in a few days.’* Another swelling under tongue, with pain, cured by the use of the 6x.

Sepia. – Dry, rough; coated white; painful as if sore or scalded; vesicles.

Silicea – Coated, also with brown mucus, numb, sensa- tion of a hair on forepart of tongue; one-sided swelling; ulcer on right border; eating into it, and discharging pus (carcinoma).

Solanum nigr. – Tongue sore as if burned; dryness of back part of tongue and roof of the mouth.

Spigelian – Coated yellow, cracked, burning with blisters; painful in the back part, as if swollen, particu- larly when chewing.

Spongia, – Dry, brown, full of vesicles, with burning and stinging pains.

Stillingia – Yellowish-white, heavily coated tongue; white coated; scalded sensation.

Stramonium – Whitish, with fine red dots; tip redder than usual; dry, red; dry and parched; pale red, in constant motion; swollen, coated, dry, yellow in center; dry, swollen, hangs out of the mouth; paralyzed.

Sulphuf. – White, with red tips and borders, mostly in acute diseases; white or yellow, brown and dry, furred a. m., but wears off during day (chronic cases); dry a. m., brown, parched and rough, cracked and vermillion; burning pain on the surface.

Sulphuric acid, – Dry, inelastic, embarrassing speech (sticks like glue); aphthous.

Sulphur iod – Tongue dry and hard, furred at the root, red at the point.

Sumbul – Brown coating on the tongue in the morning; feels rough, as if scraped.

Tanacetum – Dry on awaking; rough, white and frothy.

Taraxacum – White, cleans off in patches, leaving dark red, tender, very sensitive spots; mapped.

Terebinthina – Smooth, glossy, as if deprived of papillae (typhoid).

Thaspium – Whitish fur in middle, and reddened at tips and sides.

Theridion cur – Tongue seems as if burnt; it is so numb that she can tell nothing properly.

Thuja – Coated white; without thirst; tip sore to touch; rough, scraping feeling on surface; swollen, right side; bites the tongue frequently; ranula bluish, surrounded by varicose veins; jelly-like, transparent, or gray; aphthae.

Ustilago – Prickling sensation in tongue, with a feeling as if something was under its root, pressing it upwards.

Verairum alb. – Cold, withered, swollen, dry, cracked, and too red; white, with red tip and edges; coated yellowish-brown, back part black; heavy, with embarrassed speech (lisping, stammering); clean (with vomiting).

Verairum Vir, – Yellow, with red streak down the middle; feels scalded.

Viburnum. – Dry, broad, and white, center brown; takes print of teeth.

Viscum alb. – Great soreness of tongue, but clean; taste natural; difficulty of protruding the tongue.

Xanthoxylum. – Ptyalism; tongue coated yellow.

Zincum. – Dry; don’t want to talk; coated at root and dry (brain diseases); swollen on left side, hinder- ing talking; covered with vesicles; painful, as if sore; shootings in tip, with increased flow of saliva and metallic taste; seems too broad.

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