Good morning dear readers,

I know how much you like a tongue assessment, so today I’m going to write a little with Tongue, which presents a fissure at the tip

In Chinese Medicine you know that the tongue is a microsystem, that is, it is a region of the body that has a representation of the rest of the whole body. The tip of the tongue represents the Heart. So we can imagine that a patient who already have a fissure on the tip of the tongue can suffer with physical, emotional or energetic Heart imbalance.

We usually make the tongue assessment through its color, shape and condition of the coating (white covering of the tongue).

Thus, the fissure belongs to the assessment of shape change. A fissure shows that the tongue is not in its normal condition. The energy that maintains the contours of the body’s structures, including the tongue, is Yin energy.

Whenever we have a change in body form or structure, that includes a change in the efficiency of Yin Energy. Thus, a fissure in the tongue represents a Deficiency of Yin Energy of the reflex organ that occupies the position of the tongue in question, that is, if at the tip, a Deficiency of Yin of the Heart.

Yin energy represents cold, fluids, humidity. Therefore, when in Deficiency, it will produce symptoms of heat and dryness.

This fissure is at the tip, so we must think of symptoms of heat and dryness affecting the Heart and Heart, in addition to controlling blood circulation, it is extremely important with regard to the patient’s behavior and mental balance. It also controls sleep and speech.

So, thinking: with a deficiency of  the Yin of the Heart, the symptoms can be high heart rate, high blood pressure, restless mind, anxiety attacks, racing thoughts, lack of focus, frequent alertness, will talk too much and talk loud.

Obviously, the patient mentioned may not have all the symptoms, but without a doubt this knowledge is important to begin the diagnosis.

Other aspects of this tongue would be interesting to discuss, however, today the idea was to focus only on the tip.

I hope you enjoyed the analysis and tell us on our instagram page @facilitandoacupuntura if you want others like this one.

A big hug,

Fernanda Mara

Good morning Readers!   

Today we are going to talk about extreme anxiety. Of uncontrolled mental agitation.

You may have heard someone say that the world is getting more complicated every day. That people are increasingly anxious. Or worse … are you saying and feeling all this?

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why things are going this way?

One of the biggest problems we have today is IMMEDIATISM. Everything is for yesterday. If we receive a message, we want to respond right away. If we have to solve something at work, we go without sleep even though we know that during sleep time that thing would not be resolved. If we post a photo on social media, we return to our page every 5 minutes to see the number of likes and comments. We want to know everything, we read everything, we interpret little and often we do not even check if the information read is true. Macabre legends and stories are created on the internet and become real threats just because they are shared by hundreds of people

The truth is that we have created an URGENCY that is not real. And with that, we become more and more anxious. We believe in everything. We are afraid of everything and we lose our ability to think coherently and we think too much.

This is how hysteria is created: behavior characterized by excessive emotionality or panic terror.

And how does Chinese medicine look at this situation?

In Chinese Medicine, who controls the quality and coherence of thoughts and attitudes, the feeling of mental agitation and discernment is the Heart. It is said that the Heart is the abode of Shen, that is, the Heart is the abode of the mind.

When we deal with a lot of information and get agitated, the Heart is energetically unbalanced, generating heat. Thus, every case of anxiety, mental agitation, difficulty in discernment, incoherence in acting and thinking, restless sleep, involves a Heat in the Heart, which for Chinese Medicine is a Syndrome, and needs to be taken care of.

By removing the Heat of the Heart, it is possible to make the individual become more calm and begin to have more tranquility.

And how can we reduce this agitation by removing the heat from the Heart?

The Acupuncture points: HT-7, HT-8, HT-9, PC-6 and PC-7, belonging to the Heart and Pericardium meridians, are of extreme importance, in addition to the Heart and Yang Liver ear points that are also important to calm down.

Eating foods considered to be cold for the heart, such as melon and watermelon is also an excellent option.

But above all, there is the tip for meditation and breathing exercises and the awareness that we are spending too much energy on things we shouldn’t be doing. We need to stop, breathe, understand and solve problems and never shake our Heart.

And remember. We are always an influence for those close to us

A big hug to everyone.

Profa. Fernanda Mara