Spiritual Meaning Of Itchy Tongue

What is the spiritual meaning of an itchy tongue? Most of us associate the sensation of an itchy tongue to a dry mouth and insufficient production of saliva, which is both true and false. Any of the reasons below, when accompanied by an itchy tongue, can mean that physical and psychological hygiene are not properly satisfied, and stress is on the rise.

An Itchy Tongue or an Itchy Mouth is a sign of spiritual sickness in the soul. One of my readers (a pharmacist) recently asked me what the meaning behind itchy tongue was. He said that he had heard that it could be a symptom of some kind of sickness in human body.

Itchy tongue is a pain in the backside. It makes eating, drinking and even swallowing difficult. Determining the cause of an itchy tongue is usually easy for many patients but some might require diagnostic tests before the problem can be pinpointed.

Spiritual Meaning Of Itchy Tongue

The spiritual meaning of itchy tongue is that you are not living your life in alignment with your true purpose. You may be living a life that someone else has set out for you, or you may be trying to live up to your own expectations.

In either case, you are not living a life that is in accordance with your true nature. You have everything you need inside of yourself to make the changes necessary to live the life that is right for you. The key is to keep an open mind and listen carefully to your inner voice as it guides you towards happiness and fulfillment.

The tongue has many spiritual meanings in different cultures, but one of the most common is that it is a symbol of the mind. In this case, an itchy tongue can mean that you are having trouble concentrating and focusing on your thoughts. This may be due to stress, anxiety or fear.

Another possible meaning for an itchy tongue is that you are worried about something, but are not sure how to express your concerns. It could also mean that there is something on your mind that you need to let out, but aren’t sure how to do so.

If your tongue is red and swollen, then it means that someone has been talking behind your back and making negative comments about you. You might be feeling hurt or upset by this behavior.

Why Is My Tongue Itchy And Tingly

Itchy tongue leads to irritation if not treated properly. Itchy tongue can be caused by various reasons, some of which may be not be so severe while others can be deadly.

Causes of Itchy Tongue

Allergy:  Experiencing an itchy mouth, lips, tongue & throat? That means you may be allergic to specific food or pollens.  Many of us have Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS), a kind of food allergy, also known as pollen-food syndrome.  OAS is thought to happen when proteins in specific nutrients are similar to the allergenic proteins found in particular kinds of pollens like grasses, birch, mug wort, or ragweed. OAS may also occur when you eat certain food which you have eaten previously but nothing happened at that time.

Itching or tingling in the mouth is the most common symptoms of food allergies. Other symptoms include-

• tingling & itching in and around your mouth, tongue & throat
• swelling of the lips, tongue or throat
• odd taste in your mouth

Nourishments that can cause OAS responses include-

• nut
• cow’s milk
• eggs
• apples
• wheat
• celery

Anaphylaxis:  Anaphylaxis is a deadly allergic reaction & is much more dangerous than OAS. Immediate medical care is needed if a person is going through this kind of allergy, since it can affects the whole body resulting in low blood pressure & acute swelling.  Cardiac arrest & death can also result for a person who is affected by this kind of allergy if not treated on time. Anaphylactic reaction starts when your immune system becomes hypersensitive to acute allergens like bee stings, pollen & certain foods.

Sometimes the swelling in the throat & mouth becomes so severe, that it makes a person difficult or even impossible to breathe.

Few symptoms of Anaphylaxis:

• swelling of the lips, tongue or throat
• dizziness 0r fainting
• difficulty or having trouble while breathing
• abdominal pain, vomiting or diarrhoea
• rapid heartbeat
• low blood pressure
• skin rashes, hives or swelling
• hoarse voice

Viral Infection: Viral infection can also be the reason behind itchy tongue. Common cold & flu that affects the upper respiratory tract can cause an itchy mouth along with burning sensation.

Few symptoms of viral infections-

• running nose
• sore throat
• mild headache
• sneezing
• slight body ache
• low fever

Diabetes: Diabetes can also be the reason behind itchy tongue. Individuals with diabetes are at an expanded danger of oral thrush. It also affects nerve health leading to paraesthesia of various organs including tongue. Deferral in the treatment of oral thrush may advance to cause a contamination that too affects the throat.

Oral Thrush: Also known as oral candidiasis, is a kind of fungal infection of the genus Candida that develops on the mucous membranes of the mouth. It is a very common infection in infants causing irritation in & around the baby’s mouth. Oral thrush can also appear on the roof of your mouth, tonsils, and gums & in your throat. Those look like cream coloured patches which can be very hurting & may bleed also while you brush your teeth.

Few symptoms of oral thrush are-

• redness inside the mouth or throat
• loss of taste
• swelling in the affected areas
• painful or burning sensation while eating

Oral Cancer: This may be one of the reasons behind itchy tongue. Individuals with propensity for ceaseless drinking habit, chain smoking   & chewing tobacco are at expanded danger of growing oral cancer.

Prevention: If you are allergic prone then try to avoid exposure to allergens.  Try to find out the reason behind the allergy by doing proper allergy test. If it is because of a specific food, then avoid it. If you are going through allergy because of fungal or viral infection, then please do contact a Doctor & go through proper treatment to prevent a recurrence.

how to get rid of itchy tongue

The best way to treat oral allergies is to avoid food allergens or cook the raw foods that typically trigger a reaction. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology has published a list of triggering foods and their associated pollen. Remember, even oral allergy sufferers can still enjoy many fruits and vegetables if cooked thoroughly.

As with most allergies, antihistamines are also a great treatment option to relieve the itchy sensation in your mouth and tongue. Antihistamines like Curist Allergy Relief are an effective option for treating oral allergy symptoms.

tongue superstition

1. If your right eye twitches, you’re plagued with a bad omen. If your left eye twitches, good things are bound to happen. My mom is an immigrant from India, and though she’s adapted to North American culture over the last 30 years, little pieces of her traditional upbringing still come out at the strangest times. My mom is practical, logical, and often calculating—and yet, she believes in karma, energy, and the divine cosmos. I was born with my left eye smaller than the right, and sometimes it spasms when I’m nervous. Maybe I’m going to be okay?

2. Hold your hand out in front of your face, your palm towards you. Can you see little spaces between your fingers, letting light shine through? If so, it means you’re bad with money, or so said my mother, who to this day remains perplexed that I can balance a budget without letting coins literally fall through the spaces between my fingers. My mom has no spaces at all; it’s like her hand fuses together so that nothing shall pass. (To be clear, my mother’s money is in a bank. She does not carry it in her paws from village to village.)

3. If you’re on your way out of the house and someone sneezes, you have to go back immediately. You just do.

4. You know when you eat too much sugar or fat, and little bumps rise on your tongue? This happened to me a lot as a kid—my diet was mostly Safeway cookies and Indian food so spicy that it would turn any adult’s bowels into liquefied ambergris—but my mom told me that you get them when you tell a lie. I’d go to her, upset about how sore and swollen my tongue was, angry that I had bitten it for the third time that day, and she’d look at me from over her glasses and say, “Well, who did you lie to?” I’d spend the night racking my brain, trying to think of what lie I had told that God was punishing me for. I told Laura I liked her jacket even though I didn’t. I just wanted to be polite! Sometimes she gets mad at me and digs her nails into my hand and I just wanted to avoid that! Even worse, though, was when I actually had lied to my mother about something significant—forging her signature on a failed exam, creeping downstairs to watch television after she and my dad had gone to bed, stealing my brother’s Mad Magazine because I wanted to look at cartoon boobies—and that little bump at the tip of my tongue served as a constant reminder that I was bad, I was a bad person, and that there were a few hundred deities in the sky watching me and tsk-tsk-tsking while I tossed and turned under my purple-and-pink duvet, feeling every inch of that guilt.

5. Don’t drink water standing up, because it’ll all go into your knees. I’ve seen my mother drink water standing up plenty of times, though she always drinks her tea from a metal travel mug, which probably has some significance, but I am too afraid to ask what that might be.

6. If a cat crosses your path when you’re leaving—any cat, even if it’s your own cat—you have to return home and try again. I got a cat a few years ago, and she would constantly walk over and around my mom’s feet when she came to visit. It’s like she knew. (To be fair, the cat is named Sylvia Plath, so I guess I’m asking for some kind of celestial disaster.)

Was she upset that her only daughter would rather dance with a broom than make real friends? Or did she really think demons would enter her home if I didn’t set the broom the right way?

7. You should never call someone’s name while they’re trying to leave home, as it will only bring bad luck. They, too, will need to come back home and try again. Almost all superstitions involve people having to go back home after leaving under cursed or otherwise unsafe conditions.

8. Eat yogurt and sugar for good luck if you’re on your way to an important exam or interview. My mom never made me drink milk as a kid, but it was customary to have a cup of plain, non-fat yogurt with dinner. This does not taste good to a nine-year-old (or anyone?), so my mom would happily pile several tablespoons of brown sugar on top to get me to eat it without complaint. I never questioned why it was suddenly acceptable for me to eat sugar at dinnertime.

9. Do not leave a broom upside down—it’s a bad omen. My mom never specifically mentioned this one when I was younger, but I do remember being five or six and playing with the broom like it was a man, dancing in the kitchen to the radio, and, after flipping it around so that the bristles were his face, she quickly told me to cut it out. Was she upset that her only daughter would rather dance with a broom than make real friends? Or did she really think demons would enter her home if I didn’t set the broom the right way? Both? It was probably both.

10. When you wake up, the first thing you should see is a god or deity’s face, since it’ll bring good luck. My mom has Sai Baba on her nightstand. I have a copy of The End of Men.

11. If a cow—or even someone carrying a dairy product—walks past you, it’s good luck. This, of course, comes from the holy status of the cow in India: nothing bad will happen to you if you are around a cow. (Unless you’re eating it. Do not eat cows. They do not like it.) You’re also bound to have a good day if you’re the one carrying something made of dairy. My mom tells me stories about how people will jump in the way of anyone carrying a tub of yogurt, just to get some of that sweet karmic reverb. When men leave their homes to go to work, their wives will stand at their fences with cups of yogurts for them to walk past. This is insane! Yogurt is not that good!

12. If you play with matches, you’ll pee your pants. I was too afraid of fire to ever play with matches, but my older brother would always be fussing with a matchbook when he was still too little to understand what “accelerant” meant. She told him he would have accidents if he kept it up, and he believed her, giving up his fiery hobby—at least until he realized that his dear sweet mom was, like most adults, totally full of shit.

13. If you touch a book with your feet, you’ll become illiterate. This one still follows me around. The last time we went to India, when my grandparents were alive, I knocked a book off my bed with my foot. My grandfather saw it happen, and it was the only time he ever yelled at me, pulling me up to look at him and explaining what a horrible trespass I made against literature and education. I did it again years later, by accident, in front of my mother, and she was equally incensed, threatening to take all my books away. Now my mom remembers this as a funny joke she told us to make sure we took care of our things, but I still wince when I see people put books on the floor, still scold my friends when they rest their feet on their coffee tables. A few months ago, I drove a dinner party to a screeching halt when I noticed an old university textbook was keeping a table steady and my foot was on it the whole time. Of course, both my mother and I recognize that our literacy won’t be affected by how we handle our books. But sometimes, I hear a hardcover slide off my bed and hit the ground, or feel a paperback hidden under my sheets hit my foot, and I have that same sick, sinking feeling I did when my grandfather, and then my mother, sprinted towards me. Both of them had this twisted look on their faces shot through with both disappointment and fear, both of them asking, “Hai bhagwan, don’t you even see how lucky you are?”