Traditional Jihwa Pareeksha As A Modern Diagnostic Tool- A Review Article

Abstract

Abstract

Tongue is told to be the window to organs. Ayurveda focuses on identification of many stages of pathogenesis going inside the body based on the symptoms one shows as poorva rupa and roopa, hence many types of rogi pareeksha are told focusing on that.

Many researches now a days are taking the platform for making tools and apps that tell the health conditions and states of internal organs based on scanning the tongue. There are some interesting researches stating that by a simple Lingual impression analysis (i.e. the impression of the dorsal surface of the tongue is analyzed with its lateral borders) gender determination can be done. [1] Diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is based on 4 procedures, observation, smelling or listening, inquiry, and palpation. Tongue diagnosis plays an important role in inspection and helps to differentiate between symptoms. The tongue is considered to reflect the physiological and pathological condition of the body, as well as the degree and progression of disease, through the meridians that connect the tongue to the internal organs.