White tongue causes 1, suffering from mild symptoms.
White fur will also appear in convalescent patients, suggesting that upper respiratory tract infection, acute bronchitis and early pneumonia are early.
2. There is water retention or phlegm in the body.
Patients with wet or phlegm retention in the body may have white fur. Clinically, some patients with pleural effusion, ascites, chronic nephritis, asthma, chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis have wet or phlegm stagnation in the body, resulting in thick white or greasy tongue fur;
3. Various chronic inflammatory infections
For example, the tongue coating of patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic pyelonephritis, tuberculous meningitis and bone and joint tuberculosis is slightly thicker than that of normal people, or thin and greasy.
Classification of tongue coating and yellow coating: generally manifested as heat syndrome, that is, stomach heat appears. If the moss is thin, yellow, thick and dry, the heat inside will be abundant and the body fluid will be damaged. The yellow fur is dry and prickly, and the tongue is dry and cracked, which is characterized by extremely intense internal heat, severe body fluid injury, and hot viscera. Thick and greasy tongue coating is mostly caused by phlegm-heat, food retention or damp heat. The tongue coating is yellow and smooth, showing yang deficiency.
Black coating: For people with gastrointestinal problems, the tongue coating will become thick and greasy, white at first, and gradually turn yellow or black. In addition, some chronic diseases, such as uremia and malignant tumors, have been found clinically. When the illness gets worse, there will be black moss, which is a sign of critical illness. You should go to the hospital in time.
White coating: Normal people have thin, white and moist tongue coating. The tongue coating is thin and white and too lubricated, which is generally more common in exterior syndrome and cold syndrome. If the tongue coating is white, thick and dry, it indicates that gastrointestinal diseases have occurred, which are common in various gastritis, enteritis and halitosis symptoms. At the same time, the thick tongue coating is also a warning of gastrointestinal metaplasia, and the severity of intestinal metaplasia is directly related to gastric cancer.
Thick moss: the thickness of the moss is based on the bottom and the bottom. If you can't see the tongue through the tongue coating, it is called thick coating. If there are symptoms of gastrointestinal diseases, thick fur shows that the condition is serious and needs to be admitted to hospital in time.
Harm of thick and white tongue coating
1, causing bad breath and even bad breath.
2, will affect people's appetite, and then affect the digestive function.
3, it will cause stomach heat, and accumulated heat will lead to facial sores.
Different symptoms of tongue 1, thick coating
Take bottoming out and bottoming out as the standard. You can see the tongue coating through it, which is called thin coating, otherwise it is thick coating. Yellow means there is heat in the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tongue coating is caused by stomach qi and food qi rising on the tongue.
2. Simple tongue coating is thick and yellow
Yellow means there is heat in the body. It is recommended that the food be light and cool at night, and you can adjust yourself quickly without drinking. Because tongue coating is sometimes related to the weather, if there is no special discomfort, you can consciously eat something that can resolve phlegm and clear heat in your daily life, such as coix seed, lotus seed, Gordon Euryale seed, Poria cocos, dried tangerine peel and so on. , all have a certain curative effect.
3, the tongue coating is thick, but also depends on whether it will be tired.
Chinese medicine says so? Tired? Like what? Oil? If there is a feeling, it means that there is damp heat in the body, which needs to be eliminated and removed.
4, thick tongue coating, heavy breath
Generally speaking, there is something wrong with the stomach. If there are no other uncomfortable feelings at present, you can start with diet and daily life. Keep a regular life, feel comfortable and happy, eat more digestible food, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less greasy and fried food, and it is best not to drink or smoke.
5. Tongue mass
In addition to looking at the tongue coating, it is recommended to look at the quality of the tongue, which can be compared with the lips. If it is reddish, it is hot; if it is light, it is mostly spleen deficiency; if it is dark, it may be blood stasis.
Diagnosis of tongue coating
Tongue diagnosis is an important method to diagnose diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. Tongue is connected with five internal organs through meridians, so the deficiency and deficiency of viscera, qi and blood, body fluid and the changes of diseases can be objectively reflected in the tongue picture. Through tongue diagnosis, we can understand the deficiency and excess of zang-fu organs and the nature, severity and changes of diseases. Among them, the change of tongue quality mainly reflects the deficiency of viscera and the rise and fall of qi and blood; The change of tongue coating is mainly used to judge the depth and severity of exogenous pathogens and the rise and fall of stomach qi.
Chinese medicine divides the tongue into the tip of the tongue, the middle of the tongue, the root of the tongue and the side of the tongue. It is considered that the tip of the tongue belongs to the heart and lung, the middle tongue belongs to the spleen and stomach, the root of the tongue belongs to the kidney, and both sides of the tongue belong to the liver and gallbladder. According to different parts of the tongue, reflecting different visceral diseases has certain reference value in clinic, but it can't be seen mechanically and needs to be considered comprehensively in combination with other symptoms and signs.
1. Tongue quality: refers to the tongue body, mainly observing its color, shape and state.
Normal tongue is reddish in color, fine and moist, fat, thin, old and tender, and flexible in activities, indicating sufficient qi and blood. Can be seen in healthy people, but also can be seen with initial exogenous diseases or mild internal injuries.
(1) Tongue color
(2) Tongue shape: Observe the old, tender, fat, prickly and cracked tongue.
(3) Tongue image: Observe whether the tongue body is trembling, skewed, flabby and firm.
2. Tongue coating: Tongue coating is caused by stomach anger. Zhang xugu said:? Tongue coating is angry in the stomach, and stomach qi occurs in the heart and spleen. Therefore, people who are not sick often have a thin moss and an angry stomach, such as grass on the ground. If the land is barren, then the soil is lifeless. . Wu Kun' an said: the tongue is covered with moss, and the ground is covered with moss. The moss of the earth is born on moisture; Tongue coating comes from stomach steaming and spleen dampness rising in tide, so it is called coating. ? Modern doctors believe that the formation of tongue coating is mainly the differentiation of filiform papillae. The ends of filamentous papillae differentiate into keratinized trees, and the gaps between the branches of keratinized trees are often filled with exfoliated keratinized epithelium, saliva, bacteria, food residues and oozing white blood cells, forming a normal tongue coating. The normal tongue coating is thin and white, the white coating is tender but not thick, with moderate dryness and wetness, and it is not slippery or dry. Observe the color, thickness and moisture of tongue coating.
What should I do if my tongue turns white? Eat some vegetables that remove fire, such as bitter gourd. Bitter gourd is bitter, so you can blanch it with salt water first, put a little salt when blanching, and then cook it with cold water to reduce the bitterness. The vegetables for removing fire are tomatoes.
Pay great attention to oral hygiene, brush your teeth and rinse your mouth carefully every morning, before going to bed and after meals, and gently brush off the tongue coating with a toothbrush or clean towel when necessary. Chew slowly when eating; Drink more water and eat more vegetables, fruits and beans; Work and rest regularly and keep a good mood; Take part in more physical exercise.
When the tongue coating is thick and white, drink more water after getting angry. Drinking more water helps to expel toxins from the body. It should be noted that fruit juice cannot be used instead of boiled water. Boiled water is the best drink.