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I don’t know any of these people. They’re not my patients and I have no intake and no formal information, I don’t go to ...
07/09/2026

I don’t know any of these people.

They’re not my patients and I have no intake and no formal information, I don’t go to their profiles and I don’t search them, I just tell them what I see from their tongues.

This is Chinese medicine theory and theory alone, it isn’t intuitive. And what I suspect based on theory how it would show up into their lives.

My favorite class in undergrad was social psychology.

We had to go out into the world and break social norms and then write about how it made us feel, and I spent that semester watching my classmates do the craziest things all over campus and watching how people reacted to them. I think about that class every time someone comes into my comments ready to roast me and then stops halfway through because they recognize themselves in what I said.

Chinese medicine changed my life. It’s my favorite medicine and my favorite theories and I love sharing it with people, and it isn’t easy taking these concepts and putting them into bite size.

One of my teachers said if you ever want to know everything don’t study Chinese medicine, it’s a humbling medicine.

I never claim to know everything, but this is what happens when you take something that’s been observed for thousands of years and hold it up to a stranger’s tongue or share how diagnostics work in 5 Elemental Theory.

07/09/2026

A beautiful message about the grief journey. Thank you Joelle Garguilo l TV HOST and Sandra Bullock

Your tongue is a map 🖤 And in Chinese medicine, we don’t just look at the tongue once. We watch how it changes.Different...
06/09/2026

Your tongue is a map 🖤 And in Chinese medicine, we don’t just look at the tongue once. We watch how it changes.

Different sections of the tongue are traditionally associated with different organ systems and functional patterns:

🖤 Tip: Heart + Lung
🖤 Center: Spleen + Stomach
🖤 Sides: Liver + Gallbladder
🖤 Root: Kidney + lower body

We assess things like color, shape, moisture, coating, cracks, swelling and teeth marks.

And here’s one of my favorite parts: the tongue can give us something visible to track over time.

As a patient’s overall pattern changes, we may see corresponding changes in the tongue. A thick coating can become thinner. Redness can decrease. Puffiness or scalloping can shift. Moisture can normalize. The appearance of certain areas may change from visit to visit.

That means we aren’t only asking, “How do you feel?”

We can photograph the tongue under consistent conditions and compare observable features over time alongside symptoms, pulse and other clinical findings.

In Chinese medicine, we’re not treating the tongue itself. We’re treating the person and watching the tongue for signs that the underlying pattern may be shifting.

Your tongue tells a story. 👅🖤

Tongue diagnosis is a traditional Chinese medicine assessment method and is not a substitute for medical diagnosis, laboratory testing or medical care. Educational purposes only.

05/09/2026

How would a wood imbalance talk?

Wood is the element of the Liver and the Gallbladder, and its sound is shouting. The Liver is the General. It plans, it directs, and it keeps the Qi moving smoothly in every direction, and when Wood is healthy the General serves the Emperor and the voice stays level.

But Wood is the mother of Fire, and when Wood is in excess it stops feeding the child and starts overwhelming it. The Qi no longer flows sideways, it drives upward, and that upward drive is what you hear as shouting. The Liver Qi rises and it invades where it does not belong, and it takes the tongue, which belongs to the Heart, and it speaks through it.

So the diagnosis is the sound itself. Compassion turns to command, the voice goes hard and clipped and pushed out from the chest, and the person is talking at you rather than with you. The shouting means anger has climbed up and seized the Heart’s or***ce and pushed the Shen off the throne, and now the General is running the kingdom with no ruler above him.

Next up I’m going over the acu points for a wood imbalance. 🖤

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05/09/2026

Ren 1 is actually a Great Point if you can mentally wrap your mind around working with this point.

🤭I promise the pros outweigh the cons.☝️

Here are some of the benefits:

🖤 Calming the Spirit:

In traditional and esoteric acupuncture, Ren 1 is used to drain damp-heat, clear lower-body blockages, and anchor an overactive or ungrounded mind.

🖤 Reconnection and Rebirth:

Because of its deep anatomical location, it is associated with 🖤primal life force
🖤survival energy
🖤and the deep reservoir of essence (Jing)

Working with this point helps an individual pull scattered spiritual energy back into the physical body.

Source

Ren 1. Scribd. https://www.scribd.com/document/239650392/REN-1

04/09/2026

Calling women “lazy” for menopause is like calling someone lazy for going gray.

Menopause changes physiology. That isn’t a character flaw.

Researchers have found:

🖤 The scale can stay relatively stable while body composition changes, with more fat and less lean mass.

🖤 Aging and menopause aren’t the same thing. Aging contributes to fat gain, but the menopausal transition is associated with a shift toward more abdominal and visceral fat.

🖤 Metabolic changes have been measured in controlled settings, not just through women self reporting what they eat.

🖤 When ovarian hormones are experimentally suppressed in younger women, energy expenditure can fall. Giving estradiol back can blunt some of those changes.

🖤 Animal studies show estrogen signaling can influence fat gain and energy expenditure even without increased food intake.

🖤 Appetite and fat distribution are not the same biological process. Hormonal signaling can change where the body stores fat independent of simply “eating too much.”

🖤 After menopause, the body can handle the same meal differently, shifting toward less fat oxidation and greater fat storage.

🖤 And estrogen isn’t the only hormone involved. FSH begins changing years before the final menstrual period and is being studied for its potential role in metabolism and fat biology.

So when a woman says, “I haven’t changed what I’m doing, but my body has changed,” believe her.

Her body isn’t failing.
Her discipline didn’t disappear.
Her biology changed.

Menopause is physiology, not laziness. 🧡

References 👇👇👇

04/09/2026

Another day another 👅

DAILY RITUALS
🖤Daily movement is non-
negotiable. Stillness worsens this
more than anything.
🖤Gua sha along arms and legs
toward the heart, 5 min
🖤Dry brush toward the heart before
showering
🖤Contrast shower — 30 sec hot / 15
sec cold, 3 rounds
🖤Castor oil pack over the liver
20 min, 3×/week
🖤Never sit longer than 45 minutes.
Set an alarm.
🖤Alternate nostril breathing, 5 min
🖤Warm water only — cold congeals,
and you can’t afford congealing
🖤Legs elevated 10 min at night.

WANT YOUR TONGUE READ? 👅In Chinese Medicine, the tongue can offer clues about patterns happening within the body.For a t...
04/09/2026

WANT YOUR TONGUE READ? 👅

In Chinese Medicine, the tongue can offer clues about patterns happening within the body.

For a tongue reading, please send:

📸 One photo of the TOP of your tongue
📸 One photo of the UNDERSIDE of your tongue
☀️ Photos must be taken in direct natural sunlight
🚫 No filters or color correction

Try not to brush or scrape your tongue immediately beforehand so we can see its natural coating.

DISCLAIMER:

Tongue readings are provided for educational purposes only and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition or replace evaluation or treatment by your local qualified healthcare professional.

02/09/2026

DAILY RITUALS

    •    Look at your tongue every morning in natural light, before you eat or brush. Photograph it once a week so you can watch the coat thin
    •    Move before you eat, 10 min minimum
    •    Sweat properly 3×/week. Sauna, hot yoga, hills
    •    Chew every mouthful to liquid
    •    Three slow breaths before the first bite
    •    Nothing after 7pm. The coat is fed overnight
    •    21 days: no dairy, no fried food, no alcohol, no cold
    •    Warm water with lemon and a slice of ginger on waking

02/09/2026

Four presentations that read as pattern and are usually pharmacology: reduced appetite, prolonged fullness, mental fog, loose stools with low energy. If it started with the medication and it is mild, watch rather than react. If it is intense or disruptive, do not file it under just a side effect either. Ask when it started, how it has changed, and what makes it worse.

Treatment implication is the part people miss. Support gently. Strong dispersing methods work against a system that is slowed on purpose.

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