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Saliva? [tuò yè]?

Saliva is a colorless and thin liquid, commonly known as saliva, although in ancient times it was known as "Jin Jin Yu Liquid", but in modern times it has always been unclean and indecent.

Chinese name

Saliva

External name

Saliva

Brief description

A colorless and thin liquid

Commonly known as

Saliva

Saliva

Pinyin

Tuo Ye

Flavors

Saliva is colorless and tasteless. >Saliva is colorless and tasteless, with a pH of 6.6 to 7.1. Normal people secrete about 1.0 to 1.5 liters per day (herbivores such as cows and goats secrete up to 1/3 of their body weight in saliva per day). Human saliva water accounts for 99%; organic matter mainly mucin, mucopolysaccharides, salivary amylase, lysozyme, immunoglobulin (lgA, lgG, lgM), blood group substances (a, B, H), urea, uric acid and free amino acids, etc.; inorganic matter Na +, K +, Ca2 +, Cl -, HCO3 -, and some gas molecules.

Composition

It is mainly secreted by the salivary glands. The human body has several salivary glands, minor salivary

Salivary

Salivary glands are distributed in the mucous membranes of various parts of the oral cavity, and there are four types of glands: lip, buccal, lingual, and palatal, and the major salivary glands are parotid, sublingual, and submandibular glands. The parotid, submandibular and sublingual glands are the main salivary secretion organs. Saliva secreted by the salivary glands flows into the oral cavity through the ducts. The amount of saliva secreted is controlled by the cerebral cortex and can be influenced by diet, environment, age, and emotional or salivary gland pathology. It is normal for a person to produce 1,000-1,500 milliliters of saliva per day.

Role

Saliva is the saliva secreted by the salivary glands around the mouth, which has the effect of lubricating the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, dissolving food and facilitating swallowing, which also contains amylase and lysozyme, which can help digestion and has a bactericidal effect. Therefore, saliva is a physiological substance secreted by the human body itself.

Saliva, in Chinese medicine is known as Jin Jin Yu liquid. In "Suwen - meridians and veins", it says: "Drinking in the stomach, swimming overflowing essence, up to the spleen, the spleen disperses the essence, up to the lungs, passes through the waterway, down to the bladder, the water essence of the four cloths, the five meridians in parallel." It means that the fluid passes through the stomach, spleen and lungs and is dispersed among all the blood vessels in the body. Saliva contains natural anti-cancer factors, and if there are some conditions in a person's body that will encourage the growth of cancer cells, saliva can pose a threat to or even kill the cancer cells. That is why Chinese medicine has emphasized the salivary method of health maintenance since ancient times. There is a proverb that says: "Swallowing saliva in your mouth for three hundred mouthfuls will keep you alive until ninety-nine." Saliva has such efficacy, as long as people every day in accordance with the law, perseverance, can always keep healthy and beautiful.