Doctor, please look at my tongue.
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1995 May / Jun Vol IV No 3.
Emil Schlegel.
Therapeutics.
When a disease as serious as the cancer of the tongue is to be tackled, we must have reliable and differentiating indications of the medicines.
Alumen: Dry tongue (also black) with burning pains in evenings: sour taste, stitches towards tip; scirrhus. Inclination to hardening around infiltrated spots. Cancerous infiltration of glands; intolerable pain.
Arsenicum-hydrogenisatum: Tongue thick and has regular deep ulcers with knotty swelling. Mouth dry and hot. Little thirst.
Aurum-metallicum: Metallic taste, light-brown coating of tongue. - Taste bitter, or lost. Dry sensation mouth; tongue like leather and stiff. Tongue hard after biting it in sleep. Melancholia. Patient is lively, always in motion; full of fear, worries about future, constitutions weakened by syphilis and mercurialism. Suicidal moods; despair. Patients who get red face from mental emotions. Nocturnal aggravation.
Aurum-Muriaticum: Tongue flat; halitosis. Hard leather like tongue difficult to move. Induration remaining after glossitis. Tongue red, dry, ulcerated; cancerous swelling of glands. Benzoicum-acidum: Tongue slightly purple as if veiled, spongy, deep fissures; diffuse ulcers. Ulcerated swelling at angle of jaw. Fungoid, mapped tongue. Urine dark, of strong odor.
Carbo-animalis: Burning in mouth with vesicles on point and edges of tongue. Palate and tongue dry. Nodular hardening, also in glands, generally with burning and cutting pains.
Carbolicum-acidum: Fetid discharges. Ulcerated plaques on inner surface of lips and cheeks. Burning from mouth to stomach.
Chromicum-acidum: Tumors in posterior part of nose. Painful symptoms suddenly, off and on.
Crotalus-horridus: Tongue red; yellow, stiff, numb. Swelling and inflammation to such an extent that there were not enough room in the mouth. Strong inclination to haemorrhages.
Eosin: Burning to tongue which is red like beef. Tongue feels as if bitten: swelling, salivation, aphthae on inner surface of lips; swelling near root of tongue. General burning and redness; vertigo; patient feels very big. Burning under finger-nails, Pruritus palms red.
Gallium-aparinum (Goose grass): Some cases were improved or cured by internal and external use of the tincture.
Hoang-nan: It overcomes fetid odour of cancer discharges, follows well after Arsenicum; favours healing.
Hydrastis: Tongue and lips as if burned, red, dry, vesicles on the point. Coating yellowish-white, dirty, thick. Tongue enlarged, broad, showing imprint of teeth, as if raw; papillae prominent. Hard, firm cancers with wrinkled skin. It relieves pain and improves general health. Is most suitable in the beginning and when an adjacent gland is involved. Has frequently been valuable.
Kali-chloricum: Tongue white in middle. Two symmetric ulcers on edges. Stitching and burning in tongue. Stomatitis. Mucous membrane of tongue red, swollen and ulcerated. Ulcers with gray base, extend to cheeks and lips. Tanned appearance of mucous membranes.
Kali-cyanatum: Lips and mucous membranes pale; taste as from alum, astringent. Cancerous ulcers on right side of tongue. Tongue dark with white coating. Patients who are used to liquor (whisky) can only swallow fluids very painfully. One such case improved quickly after Kali cyanatum 5c. Useful in another case where the base of tongue was involved the cure was complete. Kali-iodatum: Rancid taste in mouth and throat, imprint of teeth on swollen tongue. Very valuable after abuse of mercurials. Burning in point of tongue; vesicles, ulcerations of tongue and mouth. Severe pain at base of tongue.
Kali-iodatum: Rancid taste in mouth and thorat,imprint of teeth on swollen tongue.Very valuable after abuse of mercuials.Burning in point of tongue ; vesicles, ulcerations of tongue and mouth .Severe pain at base of tongue.
Kali-chloricum (Schussler): Suppuration in mouth (leading to perforation of cheek) with white coating, pre-cancerous degeneration of mucous membrane. Cancerous ulcers. The swollen tongue fills mouth; shows imprint of teeth. Deep ulcers with fetid discharge. Small superficial ulcers on edges of tongue. Dark hard plaques some thick white coating of tongue, yellow in middle. Burning, stitching vesicles; inflammation prevents speaking; mapped tongue, yellow in middle, sensation of pressure on tongue.
Cundurango: Slight pain in left half of tongue; painful pustules on right side of point of tongue. Cancer of tongue. Commissurae of tongue deeply cleft; warty growths; tongue very sensitive. Cundurango hastens granulation and cicatrization. Open, ulcerative cancer; it lessens burning and shooting pains. Also painless ulcers with hard margins and ichorous discharges. Crampy stomachache. It is indicated when it seems that a small cancer node is located in tongue, which a sensitive and pains at night.
Muriaticum-acidum: Sweetish taste, or sour, fetid. Tongue heavy like lead, interfering with speech. Atrophy of tongue; purple colour; deep ulcers with white base and vesicles. Almost entire mouth and tonsils covered with white-grey membrane. Ulcer margins and surrounding area purplish. Painful, blue tongue, deep ulcers with inverted margins. Warty ulcers of bean size. fissured, Hardening around a centre point making expectoration and speaking difficult.
Phytolacca: Unpleasant metallic taste. Severe pain at base of tongue, as also in tonsils; burning sensation in posterior part of tongue. Tongue thickly coated, yellow and dry; tip very red and hot, raw sensation and sensitive. Small ulcers as after abuse of quicksilver. Lips and tongue dry with much pain, also in tonsils; patient feels hot. Emaciation; Chlorosis; inflammation of enlarged glands. It favours suppuration. Tongue thickened.
Radium-bromatum: Stitching as from needles at tip of tongue; salivation; metallic taste; heat in esophagus extending into stomach. Tongue dry at root. Craves cold water on account of dryness. Chilly, better from warm covering. Very tired; weak in afternoon. Pains in muscles and joints during thunderstorm and on motion; better in open air and on continued motion. Nocturnal pruritus. Very excited.
Sempervivum: Deep ulcer of tongue with high margin. Cancer at or near root of tongue. Can be used internally and externally. Entire mouth sensitive and painful.
Tarentula: Mouth very dry, painful aphthae, fetid breath. Tongue retracted making speaking difficult suspicious plaques also on tonsils and palate. Palate hot, ulcers of malignant appearance. Unhealthy skin, Weak in all joints. Anthrax and gangrene. Spastic paralysis. Neuralgias, rheumatic and nervous conditions. Vagus disturbances.
Viburnum prunifolium:
The decoction has curved cases, and so has Viola odorata.Citrus-scorbutus: In three cancer cases the pain was cured by Citric-acid.
