See the tongue is divided into several parts:
First, look at the tongue quality, whether it is red or purple; Is it bright or dark?
Second, look at the tongue coating, is it yellow or white?
Third, look at the tongue. Are there any cracks or tooth marks? Fat tongue or thin tongue? The tongue is stiff, bent, etc. Finally, look at the tongue pulse.
The redness on the tip of the tongue indicates heart fire.
Generally speaking, it is a common symptom that the color of red tongue is darker than normal, indicating that you have heat syndrome in your body, but the problem reflected by the position of red tongue is different.
Heart fire is mainly manifested as red tongue tip, but also symptoms such as dry mouth, irritability, aphtha, poor sleep, yellow urine and dry stool. If the heart fire is strong, but the symptoms are mild, Daochi powder is commonly used in clinic; If the symptoms are serious, you can use Xiexin Decoction, which contains Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Cortex Phellodendri and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei. All these traditional Chinese medicines have the function of purging fire.
There is also a common clinical situation: urine is particularly yellow, sometimes dry and bitter, and urination is a bit urgent. This is the so-called "small intestine fever", which may occur in adults and children. Most of the heat in the small intestine is caused by the downward movement of heart fire. In order to relieve the symptoms, we can also use the medicine Daochisan to clear the heart and promote diuresis to solve the problem of heart fire moving down.
Prescription for reducing fire:
Crystal sugar lotus seed soup: people with rising deficiency fire can often drink crystal sugar lotus seed soup that can clear heart and moisten dryness. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that lotus seeds can clear away heat, clear heart and soothe the nerves, and have a good therapeutic effect on irritability and insomnia caused by internal fire.
Stir-fry bitter gourd and ginkgo: choose bitter gourd 1-2 and ginkgo 20. Wash ginkgo, wash bitter gourd and dice; Soak bitter gourd and ginkgo in boiling water for a while, and immediately remove them for use; Add a little oil to the wok, add ginkgo, bitter gourd and seasoning and stir-fry until cooked; Thicken this dish with starch
Eating "bitter" in winter can reduce the heart fire. However, it should be noted that ginkgo should not be eaten too much at a time.
Redness on both sides of the tongue indicates liver fire.
The clinical manifestations of liver fire and heart fire are different. Tongue pain or dry mouth, poor sleep, this is a typical heart fire; If not only dry mouth, bitter taste, jealousy, etc. , all belong to the performance of liver fire.
When there is liver fire, the tongue will be red, but the red on both sides is more obvious. Clinically taking Longdan Xiegan Pill can clear liver and purge fire. In addition, you can also drink medicinal tea, such as Kuding tea with chrysanthemum and Vitex negundo. If your face is red and your blood pressure rises, you can use Prunella vulgaris and Uncaria to soak in water, which can help lower blood pressure.
A therapeutic prescription for lowering liver fire;
Stir-fried fungus with pig liver: make up for what you eat, and make up for the liver to deal with liver fire. Fried black fungus with pig liver has the effect of calming liver fire.
Choose about 40 grams of auricularia auricula and 240 grams of pig liver. Soak auricularia auricula, cut off the hard lump at the bottom, and then cut into thick silk; Wash and air-dry pork liver, then cut into thick slices, add marinade and marinate for about 10 minutes; Heat the pot, add 2 tablespoons of oil, saute ginger slices, add pork liver slices and stir-fry until cooked; Add shredded fungus and shredded onion, stir well, add a little sugar and salt to taste, and serve.
Lycium barbarum chrysanthemum tea: Lycium barbarum is boiled for 30 minutes first, and then boiled for 3 minutes after chrysanthemum is added. It can be used as tea and is suitable for people who often use their brains.
Red cough with lung fire and tongue
The redness is located in the first half of the tongue, accompanied by cough, dry nose, dry mouth and dry throat. , generally belong to lung fire. Allium macrostemon powder is mainly used to clear lung fire. In addition, due to the lung and large intestine from the outside to the inside, many patients with lung heat have poor defecation. Therefore, it is necessary to clear lung heat and ventilate abdominal qi during the treatment. You can use cogongrass rhizome 15g, reed rhizome 15g and white radish 50g to cut into pieces and make soup, which is very good for clearing heat and delicious.
Lung yin deficiency is also manifested as red tongue with little coating, accompanied by dry cough and little phlegm. At this time, you can choose drugs that nourish yin, such as Shashen Maidong Decoction; If it is heavier, you can add Lily Gujin Decoction, which can nourish yin and clear heat. If you are accompanied by hemoptysis, you should go to the hospital immediately to see if there are any other problems in your lungs.
Therapeutic prescription of lung fire reducing fire:
Tremella Sydney soup: 50 grams of tremella and two pears are selected. Cut the pear into pieces, add 500 ml of water to Tremella, and boil for 20 minutes. Adding a little rock sugar will have the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
Eat some cold foods, such as white radish, tremella, Chinese cabbage, celery, spinach, winter bamboo shoots, bananas, pears, apples, lilies, carambola and loquat, and drink more water at the same time, and eat less high-calorie foods such as meat and chocolate.
Red tongue with yellow fur, bad breath is stomach fire.
When the stomach is hot, the whole tongue is red, sometimes the tongue is red with yellow coating, and yellow will cover the red, which requires special attention. People with stomach fire usually show symptoms such as stomach pain, bad breath and bitter taste, and always want to drink water, especially cold water. At this time, it is recommended to try the medicine for clearing stomach heat.
There is also a kind of stomach fever in clinic, which will be accompanied by dry stool and bloating. Chengqi decoction can be used at this time. Chengqi decoction is divided into Dachengqi decoction, Xiaochengqi decoction and Tiaowei Chengqi decoction. It is necessary to choose different prescriptions according to different clinical conditions, and it is best to consult professionals before taking them. Many people will soak rhubarb in water to help relieve constipation. It must be reminded that this method can not be used for a long time, otherwise it will lead to black lesions in the colon.
If, in addition to stomach pain, you still feel hungry but not hungry, it seems painful but not painful, like bloating, not wanting to eat, and dry mouth, it is generally caused by insufficient stomach yin. Phragmites communis, Dendrobium, Adenophora adenophora, etc. can be used to nourish stomach yin.
Therapeutic prescription for reducing stomach fire:
Lily mung bean porridge: cook mung beans and lily for 15 minutes, then add rice to boil, turn to low heat, and cook until the porridge is sticky and appropriate, and add crystal sugar appropriately.
Lily and mung bean are considered to have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and reducing fire. Mung beans are sweet in taste and cool in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat, relieving vexation, quenching thirst, invigorating stomach, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling. Eating lily often has the effect of moistening lung and clearing heart, relieving cough, stopping bleeding and stimulating appetite.
Water chestnut and lotus root juice soup: choose 250g water chestnut and 250g fresh lotus root. After frying the soup together, add a proper amount of rock sugar. After three days, it has the effects of moistening stomach, cooling blood and reducing fire.
Red tongue with little fur may be kidney fire.
All the above conditions belong to excess heat syndrome, with red tongue coating and yellow coating. If the tongue is red with little or no coating, it is a deficiency-heat syndrome.
Deficiency-heat syndrome has two stages. The first stage is mainly manifested as backache and knee weakness, dry mouth, tinnitus and sometimes poor sleep. At this time, the tongue is red and the tongue coating is less. If the internal heat is stronger, there will be upset, night sweats, and hand, foot and heart heat, indicating that yin deficiency is more serious. At this time, the tongue is redder than before, without tongue coating, or with a thin layer of yellow coating.
Kidney fire reducing fire prescription:
Red bean porridge: 50 grams of red beans, japonica rice 100 grams. Cook the red beans first, and then cook the glutinous rice into porridge. Add a little brown sugar when taking it, and take it twice every morning and evening, which has the effect of reducing fire.
Kidney fire is mainly manifested as dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, loose teeth or pain. Usually you can make tea with medlar and medlar skin.
White tongue is mostly spleen deficiency.
Normal tongue color is reddish, and abnormal "pale tongue" symptoms are pale white tongue with little blood color. Clinically, pale tongue indicates qi deficiency and blood deficiency, and the most common one is spleen deficiency.
Work fatigue and mental stress make the situation of spleen deficiency more and more common. People with spleen deficiency always feel bored, don't want to eat, have a feeling of fullness in their stomachs, and their stools are soft and shapeless. In view of this situation, we can choose Sijunzi Decoction, Xiangsha Yangwei Pill and so on.
If besides spleen deficiency, there are symptoms of insufficient middle qi, mainly manifested as sometimes bloating and frequent diarrhea, you can choose Buzhong Yiqi Pill.
In addition, lung qi deficiency is also very common. People with weak lung qi deficiency will have a prominent front of the tongue, accompanied by cough, persistent symptoms such as phlegm, asthma, chest tightness and soft stool. It is recommended to take Bufei decoction, such as Dangshen, Yam and Poria.