Scrape your tongue and bad breath will go away

The tongue coating is a relatively important tissue. It is located on the top layer of the tongue and is rich in taste cells. It plays an important role in the functional integrity of people's tongue. Observation and treatment of the tongue coating can solve some minor disease problems and bring great benefits to people. For example, how come bad breath disappears by scraping the tongue coating? Let’s take a look at the explanation below, I hope everyone can understand it.

Thick white tongue coating is a common phenomenon among people. When the tongue coating is white, we will feel that the tongue seems to have become thicker, a little astringent, and sometimes accompanied by a bitter taste in the mouth.

What is the cause of thick white tongue coating?

Studies have shown that the tongue coating is a layer of dirt spread on the tongue. In fact, under normal circumstances, the tongue coating of ordinary people will be whitish, but it is usually thin. If the tongue coating is thick and white, it means that your gastrointestinal tract has been diseased. Due to the strength of the patient's stomach qi and the cold or heat of the body, various pathological tongue coatings can be formed. Different tongue coating symptoms reflect different gastrointestinal diseases.

In addition to being seen in healthy people, white tongue coating is often seen in mild illnesses, the initial onset of external symptoms, and the recovery stage of the disease. Because the internal pathological changes in the machine are not obvious, the changes in the tongue coating are close to the normal thin white tongue coating.

Classification of tongue coating

Yellow tongue coating: generally indicates heat syndrome, that is, stomach heat occurs. If the tongue coating is thin, yellow, thick and dry, it means that the internal heat is excessive and the body fluids are damaged. The tongue coating is yellow, dry and prickly, and there are cracks on the tongue, which indicates that the internal heat is extremely severe, the body fluids are severely damaged, and the internal organs are extremely hot. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, which is usually caused by phlegm heat, food accumulation or internal damp heat. The tongue coating is yellow, smooth and moist, which is a sign of yang deficiency.

Black tongue coating: People with gastrointestinal problems will have a thick and greasy tongue coating, which starts out white and gradually turns yellow or black. In addition, clinical findings show that some chronic diseases, such as uremia and malignant tumors, will also cause black tongue coating when the condition worsens. This is a sign of a serious illness and one should go to the hospital to see a doctor in time.

White coating: A normal tongue coating is thin, white and moist. The tongue coating is thin, white and overly smooth, which is generally seen in superficial symptoms and cold syndromes. If the tongue coating is thick, white and dry, it means that there is a lesion in the gastrointestinal tract, which is often seen in various symptoms of gastritis, enteritis and bad breath. At the same time, thick white tongue coating is also a warning of gastrointestinal metaplasia, and the severity of intestinal metaplasia is directly related to gastric cancer.