At school for Ayurveda, my funky looking tongue was the source of a lot of questions.
I had diagnosed myself with something known as Geographic Tongue, and now realize that when you look through an Ayurvedic lens, there is no such thing.
The first time I remember noticing my tongue, really, was about a few years before I went to study Ayurveda. I had never really looked at tongues, or known what they were supposed to look like, but I noticed mine was very strange. Size and shape seemed normal, but the surface was very patchy, and those circles and shapes changed from day to day. I looked that up online, and found this term called ‘Geographic Tongue.’ I wish I had a picture of my tongue, but here’s a photo from Google that looks very similar (I am making it really small, because I get that it’s a little icky…):
(Need a break to go look in the mirror?)