"Pale red tongue, thin white coating", healthy tongue coating should be pale red, and there is a thin layer of white coating with uniform particles and moderate humidity on the tongue surface. If you find that the color of tongue coating is abnormal, you should pay attention.
The fur is white and greasy.
The white and thick tongue coating indicates that there is cold and dampness in the body. Whether eating cold food or suffering from cold, the tongue coating will turn white.
In addition, in daily life, the body of the tongue is fat and the tongue coating is white and thick, which is more common in patients with body obesity and abnormal spleen and stomach transport, resulting in edema and excessive phlegm and dampness. Patients with hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and hypertension also have thick white greasy fur.
Conditioning principle: eat less cold and cold food; Keep warm; Keep exercising.
Four-word title with yellow fur and sticky thickness
If you see a thick layer of yellow and white dirt on your tongue, the tongue coating is sticky and thick, which is not easy to scrape off. There is a sour and smelly foul smell in your mouth, accompanied by poor appetite and dry stool, which indicates that there is excessive stomach fire and bad spleen and stomach.
This situation is probably caused by overeating, eating too much greasy food, poor digestive function of the spleen and stomach or disorder.
Conditioning principle: adjust the diet structure, eat reasonably and healthily, and be light.
Black tongue coating
If you eat some medicine or food in your life, your tongue coating will turn black, which belongs to coating, so don't be too nervous.
However, it is worth noting that the tongue images of patients with chronic asthmatic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, gastric cancer and chronic renal failure are mostly black fur, which requires attention and active treatment in order to recover as soon as possible.
Conditioning principle:? Follow the doctor's advice, see the condition and actively cooperate with the doctor for conditioning treatment.
Flaking of tongue coating
All or part of the tongue coating falls off, which is called exfoliating coating; The tongue coating falls off completely, so that the tongue surface is as smooth as a mirror, which is called' light stripping tongue' and' mirror tongue'; If the tongue coating is not completely peeled off, the peeling place is smooth and without coating, and the remaining spots are mottled and the boundaries are obvious, it is called' flower peeling'.
Exfoliation of tongue coating indicates deficiency of stomach qi, exhaustion of stomach yin or deficiency of both qi and blood, which is a manifestation of general weakness.
Conditioning principle: replenish qi and blood and enhance immunity. It is suggested that the daily diet should be light and eat more fruits and vegetables with spleen and stomach benefits, such as yam and barley. Actively exercise and enhance the body's immune function.