A most effective way for my kids was to take the probiotic and dump an amount in a container of yogurt or kefir (not homemade) let the probiotic culture 24-36 hours on a stovetop or slightly warm place. Use plain yogurt however you may add just a small amt of honey or maple syrup or some such to encourage growth.

As mentioned before allow for a very clean diet after the Antibiotics to cleanse the system. The probiotics will help. With really powerful probiotics. I would give my kids a batch of very poweful homemade kefir and within 30 minutes they would be returning from the bathroom cleaned out. Good stuff!

Aye.

(from the tongue analysis info)

Brown Tongue Coating

This coating suggests Internal heat that is damaging the Yin or that you're taking a bismuth based antacid.

Internal heat damaging Yin is what we call it when a high fever or other source of heat causes dehydration. I've seen this coating in conjunction with a heavy smoker as well. That's another example of heat damaging the Yin, in this case, the Yin is the healthy fluids of the lungs.

A bismuth based antacid can give rise a brown or even black tongue coating, not to mention some funny looking stools as well. Pepto-Bismol is an example of this kind of product. It does not indicate a pathology, its just a unique reaction to the bismuth in the medicine.


here is the link to do your in depth tongue analysis~

http://beyondwellbeing.com/herbs/tongue-diagnosis.shtml


be happy, be well,
Zoe

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