Tongue reading can provide valuable insights into the health of our gastrointestinal organs and other bodily functions. The tongue serves as a sort of map for our physical and energetic body and is unique in that it is the only muscle visible without skin covering. This assessment technique is simple enough for anyone to perform at home with a basic understanding.

In this four-week series, you will learn how to interpret tongue characteristics and understand the herbal and nutritional protocols that can help you achieve optimal energy levels.

Benefits & Advantages:

• Easy to Learn Technique for Health Practitioners & the Layman

• Fast Client Assessment Method

• No Equipment Needed

• Ability to help us make a differential constitutional diagnosis

• See Healthy Changes Quickly

• A practical and effective, noninvasive method to perform an auxiliary diagnosis anytime, anywhere.

• Treatment Protocols Using Ayurvedic Principles in Whole Foods & Herbs

• Tongue diagnosis is a vital diagnostic Ayurvedic tool for assessing the current health of a patient and providing a basis for prognosis

• It also informs about the underlying challenges of the patient’s constitution.

• The tongue gives accurate information about the state of Prana and blood, disease progression and regression, degree of heat and cold, and the depth or penetration of a pathogenic imbalance.

• 89% to 97% percent accuracy before any blood tests, hair analyses, or urinalysis results come back from labs.

Curriculum

Week 1

Tongue & the Taste Buds

• The Tongue Maps: Reading the Terrain

• The Relationship of the Tongue to the Body

• Constitutional Tongue Diagnosis

• Taste Fundamentals

Week 2

History of Tongue Diagnosis

• The Diagnosis

• The Six Healing Tastes & The Elements

• Tongue Diagnosis: A 4-Step Procedure

Week 3

• Tongue Diagnosis & The Body Organs

• Reading the Terrain & the Indicator Signs

• Constitutional Examination & The Factors to Observe

• Identifying the Imbalances of the Body Constitution

Week 4

• Comparative Clinical Significance in Ayurveda, TCM, & Western Medicine

• The 3 Stages of Investigation

• The 7-Disease Tendencies

• A Tongue Dairy 

• Case Studies: Before & After Photos

Includes:

• Ayurvedic Tongue Diagnosis Charts

• Herbal and Nutritional Protocols

• Updated Ayurvedic articles and research papers

• Tracking your progress worksheets

• Engaging Practices with a Buddy

• Before and After Results

• Case Studies* 

• Recommended Reading Shantree’s Ayurvedic Tongue Diagnosis book

Engaging Practices

• 28-Day Transformation Process

• Living the Essential Keys

• Reflections & Insights

• Interactive Format

• Buddy Mate for Change

• Key Lessons

• Q & A

• Recorded Sessions for Future Viewing

This engaging series is suitable for healthcare practitioners as well as students of wholistic medicine. It aims to provide a solid base for the professional application of Constitutional Medicine in practice. The series can be used in various ways that align with each other.

• As a foundation of practice as a Constitution Tongue Diagnosis Practitioner.

• As an adjunct to a therapist’s practice in another natural healing modality.

• An Intelligent Tongue Diagnosis System via Deep Learning.

• As training in self-healing for nonprofessionals.