Tongue

The most extensively discussed tongue topic in Aajonus's teaching is the white coating that appears on the tongue's surface. Conventional practitioners, including naturopaths, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and Ayurvedic practitioners, interpret a coated tongue as a negative sign indicating internal imbalance or disease. Aajonus rejected this interpretation entirely and reversed it.

A white coating on the tongue means the body has successfully mobilized calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium to bind with the toxic heavy metals and other poisons that are exiting through the tongue from the brain. The coating is essentially those alkalinizing minerals chemically bound to the toxic substances, rendering them neutralized before they are swallowed or expelled. The minerals code and contain the poisons. The whiteness is the visible surface expression of that binding process.

Aajonus was direct about what the alternative would look like. If those alkalinizing minerals were not present to bind with the exiting poisons, the tongue would not be white and coated. It would be split, red, bleeding, burning, and blistered. The metals and acid toxins, unbound and unconjugated, would tear through the tissue of the tongue on their way out, causing severe damage. A white tongue is therefore not evidence of disease but evidence of the body having sufficient mineral reserves to conduct detoxification safely. He said: "When you have a white tongue, be very thankful that it's a white tongue because it's better than having a ripped, bleeding tongue."

The minerals involved are calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium. These are the same minerals that appear in plaque on the teeth and in the coating on the gums when toxins exit through those routes. All three sites, the tongue, the teeth and gums, and the salivary glands, are part of the same discharge network, and the same mineral-binding dynamic applies to all of them.

Aajonus emphasized that everyone on this diet should expect to have a coated tongue, and that a coated tongue should be present until the brain and head have been thoroughly cleaned of accumulated toxins. He told a workshop participant: "Everybody should have a coated tongue. So everybody should have a coated tongue" and "you're going to be detoxing until you've been on this diet 40 years." The expectation is not that the coating will quickly disappear but that it reflects ongoing and necessary work the body is doing.

In contrast to the white tongue, a blue tongue is a sign of trouble. A blue tongue indicates that the poisons coming out through the tongue are not adequately bound with minerals. The alkalinizing minerals, specifically calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium, are insufficient to conjugate and neutralize the toxic metals leaving the brain. The prescription for this condition is to eat more cheese and drink more dairy, because those foods supply the calcium and other minerals the body needs to bind the poisons and keep them contained as they transit through the tongue tissue.

The brain and nervous system carry the highest concentration of stored mineral toxins in the body. This comes from a lifetime of eating cooked foods, receiving vaccines, and breathing polluted air. Cooked foods generate free radical heavy metals that accumulate in the brain. Vaccines introduce heavy metals directly. Environmental pollution adds to the load. All of those stored metals, when the body eventually works to discharge them, find their way out predominantly through the mouth, specifically through the gums, salivary glands, and the tongue. The eyes and ears sometimes serve as secondary routes, but the primary discharge channel is the mouth.

This is why Aajonus connected plaque on the teeth directly to brain detoxification. The plaque is not the cause of dental decay but a protective calcium and mineral deposit that forms when heavy metals are transiting through the dental region. The same principle applies to the tongue coating. In both cases, the appearance that conventional medicine or alternative traditions interpret as pathological is, in Aajonus's reading, the body's protective response to a toxic discharge.

Beyond its role as a detox exit route, the tongue functions as an analytical instrument that evaluates incoming food and sends signals to the digestive system. Aajonus described the tongue and salivary glands together as organs with analytical properties, meaning they sample and identify what is entering the mouth, then communicate that information to the pancreas so the pancreas can determine what enzymes and secretions to produce and in what quantities. This is why eating slowly and allowing food to contact the tongue fully matters, and why gulping food or drink bypasses part of this signaling process.

He connected the tongue's analytical function to the instinctive food selection seen in animals that have not been domesticated or subjected to chemical interference. Animals in their natural state can assess which food they need by tasting it, because the tongue's analytical chemistry is intact. In humans on cooked and processed diets, this capacity is often degraded.

Aajonus devoted substantial teaching to the mechanics of how liquids should be consumed, and the tongue is central to this. He consistently opposed gulping any liquid, including water, milk, juice, or anything else. When a liquid is gulped, it bypasses the tongue and teeth and proceeds directly into the throat and stomach without mixing with saliva. Saliva carries bacteria that begin pre-digesting the liquid and preparing it for further breakdown. Without that saliva contact, the digestive bacteria do not enter the liquid and the body absorbs far less from it.

The method Aajonus practiced and taught was to suck liquids in past the teeth and over the tongue rather than tipping and swallowing. He described rolling the tongue up over the palate, pressing it behind the front teeth, and drawing liquid through the teeth in a way that generates maximum saliva contact and coats the liquid with the bacterial content of the mouth. He compared this explicitly to the way a nursing infant sucks from a nipple, noting that an infant's sucking action draws saliva and its bacteria into the milk at the moment of ingestion, which pre-digests it and makes it far more bioavailable. He said he took only about two tablespoons of liquid at a time this way and found it far more satisfying than gulping, because the nutrients were actually being absorbed rather than rushing to the kidneys and being excreted.

The practical implication he drew was that gulping sends water and liquid directly to the kidneys because the body has no mechanism to regulate an inundation of water that arrives without sufficient ionic bonding with food nutrients. The person ends up urinating frequently and remaining deficient in actual hydration, despite drinking large volumes. Sucking allows the body to pace absorption, mix the liquid with saliva and bacteria, and carry it through the teeth and over the tongue in a way that gives the system time to route it properly to the cells.

He described his own method with a glass straw with a very small hole, similar to those used in chemistry laboratories, which forced him to suck hard and slowly through it, maximizing the tongue and saliva contact with whatever he was drinking.

In one account, a workshop participant described a detox episode in which his tongue was secreting a bad-smelling saliva continuously for four days, requiring him to carry a bottle and spit constantly. Aajonus confirmed that this kind of secretion is always the expulsion of poisons. He noted that it could be something like penicillin coming out, or another form of stored toxin, but that whatever it was, it was poison exiting the body through the salivary and tongue tissues. The participant also noted that inside his tongue there seemed to be a persistent scar-like condition, which Aajonus identified as an acidic indication consistent with ongoing detoxification. He made clear that this is a normal state for people who have not yet completed decades of detoxification.

Aajonus described a specific application of honey and butter placed directly under the tongue to deliver nutrients to a patient who cannot eat or swallow normally. In the case of Jeff, who was comatose and could not ingest food, Aajonus mixed equal portions of unsalted raw butter and unheated honey and placed the mixture under Jeff's tongue. The mechanism he described was that the salivary enzymes in the mouth dissolve the mixture, some of the nutrients are absorbed directly into the blood through the mucous membranes of the mouth, and the rest gradually drains down the throat to soothe it and eventually reach the stomach. The nutrients from the butter and honey mixture then travel in the blood to the brain to protect living tissue and carry away bruised and dead tissue for elimination. He recommended placing a teaspoon of this mixture under the tongue at least every forty minutes, and said that doing it every twenty to forty minutes was fine or even better. He also described a situation with an infant who could not eat, where Owanza instructed the mother to put honey and butter under the infant's tongue every hour, using the same absorption principle.

Honey placed under the tongue was also referenced in the context of honey as a shapeshifter nutrient, one that can be transformed by the body into whatever kind of enzyme is needed, and one that can be absorbed through the mucous membranes of the mouth independently of normal digestive processing.

Aajonus described a specific traumatic injury he sustained when he was mugged in Bangkok. The attack involved blows to the face that broke teeth and the jawbone. The bone broke and was knocked back under his tongue, all the way to the back of the floor of the mouth. The gum tissue was holding everything together. The nerve pipe that connects through the jawbone and supplies all the teeth was split in two places. The bone was completely disengaged from the jaw and lodged under the tongue in a position that could not be moved. He described having to wait through the night with that bone under his tongue before oral surgeons were available the next afternoon. During that time he had to manage eating by mashing whatever he could in his mouth around the displaced bone and the split nerves.

Aajonus addressed the phenomenon of a dry, cotton mouth not as dehydration but as a specific consequence of the body using available fats throughout the system to bind with toxins as they come through the gums and tongue during heavy detoxification. He said: "Your body is using all the available fats all throughout the system to bind with those toxins as they come through your gums and your tongue. And your salivary gland cleanses and dries out your entire mouth." The prescription for this is not water but honey and butter in the mouth, because the fat and enzymatic content of the honey and butter replaces what the detox process is depleting.

Aajonus described a direct, immediate reaction in his own mouth after taking a single bite of salty cheese. He said his tongue started burning and swelling almost instantly, his throat swelled, and he developed an immediate headache. He expectorated and rinsed his mouth with milk, which relieved the reaction. He used this to illustrate how quickly salt acts as an irritant and inflammatory agent in the mouth and tongue even for someone aware of it, and noted that the same process happens to people who are less sensitive but cannot feel it immediately.

Aajonus warned specifically that pineapple eaten alone can blister the mouth and cause a bleeding tongue, particularly in very thin or very acidic people. The acidity of pineapple concentrated against dry, acid-prone tissues causes this damage. The solution is to always blend pineapple with something that buffers its acidity, specifically raw cream, raw eggs, raw milk, or oil. He was clear that even for people not as sensitive, eating pineapple without something to blend it into is not safe if the person has a dry or acidic constitution.

Aajonus recounted testing the temperature of a hot Thai soup by putting his finger in it and deciding it was not too hot, then putting it in his mouth. He had placed ice on his tongue prior. The next day he had a blister on his tongue from the heat, illustrating that mucous membrane tissue of the tongue is more sensitive to heat than hand skin, and that temperature assessment on the hand does not reliably predict what that same heat will do to the tongue.