Merc: Great swelling and protrusion of tongue. Sweet taste in the mouth. Tongue flabby with imprint of teeth. Tongue will roll in the night occupying the whole mouth.
Aconite N: If there is much fever, it should be followed by Merc.
Cantharis: If the inflammation is due to a burn or a scald.
Apis M: Acute oedema. Dry tongue with stinging, burning pain s up to the throat.
Acid Oxal: If the tongue is swollen, sore, excoriated and or desquamated.
Benzoic Acid: Swelling and ulceration of the tongue when the pains in the joints ceases suddenly owing to stormy weather and by taking cold.
Pulsatilla: When due to suppressed haemorrhoidal and gouty affections.
Belladonna: When the affection does not speedily yield to Merc. or when the inflammation is of an erysipelatous or active nature.
Ars. Alb:
Lachesis:
Should be thought of when symptoms of threatening gangrene present themselves.
Crotalus Hor: Tongue swollen to nearly twice the normal size; cannot speak a word. Swelling of the tongue till there is no room in the mouth.
For Local Application
Arnica: Twenty drops of Arnica mother tincture should be mixed in six table-spoon full of water and the mouth rinsed with this lotion thrice daily.
Urtica Urens: The lotion prepared in the same way as in Arnica is useful in certain cases when there is a burning sensation with little alteration of appearance or when the affection is caused by burns or scalds.
