5 Reasons to Scrape Your Tongue Every Day
Dr. B. Kanagasabapathy
[M.D.S. (Ortho), Fellow ICOI]
Did you know about tongue scraper?
Not satisfied cleaning your tongue with a toothbrush? A tongue scraper will help you with that.
A tongue scraper is a dental hygiene appliance that cleans food debris, bacteria, dead cells, and fungi from your surface of the tongue.
If you do not clean your tongue, it may cause various oral health problems as well as general health problems.
Whatever that stick on your tongue goes inside your body, that is why it affects your general health too.
In India, the tongue-cleaning technique is followed since ancient times. Ayurveda, one of the ancient Indian medicines, recommends cleaning your tongue every day to eliminate building up of toxic debris.
5 REASONS TO SCRAPE YOUR TONGUE
Enhance taste buds
If you scrap your tongue, the build-up over your tongue surface will be removed leading to better exposure of taste buds. This results in a better-tasting of your favorite foods. Ayurveda says, if you concentrate and eat your favorite food with enjoyment, your body will digest it easily resulting in good overall health.
Our body has the ability to contact the brain to choose what type of food is good to maintain overall health. If your taste buds and tongue receptors are not cleaned, it will interfere with that decision-making in food and results in wrong cravings.
Eliminates bad breath
One of the major reasons for bad breath is not cleaning your tongue. By removing food debris, bacteria, dead cells, fungi from the tongue, it gradually reduces the bad breath from the mouth.
You may have already advised brushing your tongue with the toothbrush. However, this method is not effective, and it will not completely remove all the films.
Improves immune system
When you sleep, your body will be detoxified. The film on the surface of your tongue is nothing but the toxins eliminated from your body. If you think not to re-ingest that toxins, scraping your tongue is the first solution.
Scraping your tongue in the morning eliminates that sludge from your body and tongue. This will improve your immune system, resulting in the improvement of your overall health.
Helps to understand your tongue
Have you known that your tongue is a reflection of your internal organs? When you map your tongue, it denotes various parts of the internal body. Every morning you can learn many things about your body by looking at your tongue.
Scraping your tongue is like acupuncture or acupressure; it massages and stimulates those internal organs.
Enhances dental health
By scraping your tongue, you are eliminating toxins and bacteria, which means your oral health will be Improved. The bacteria that are responsible for various periodontal problems, tooth decay, gum recession, loss of teeth, plaque buildup, and gum infections are eliminated by scraping your tongue.
That is why your dental health will be improved drastically, leading to healthier gums and teeth.
Follow this when scraping your tongue
- Gently scrape your tongue, do not scrap hardly
- Rinse scraper in water after each scrape
- Repeat this until you feel your tongue is freshened
- Wash the scraper in hot water after each use
Scrap your tongue every morning and feel an amazing difference!
