Coated Tongue: Natural Options

An antique silver tongue scraper from Europe, 1701

A coated tongue is one of the oldest things a healer ever looked at: Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners have been reading the tongue for centuries, and plenty of people today still start their morning with a scrape and a look. Here’s what tends to put a coating there, and what people reach for once they see one.

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