What disease causes a spicy tongue

The tongue can be said to be the most functional organ in the human body. Its flexible muscles not only allow us to have the intonation when we speak, but the taste buds on it also allow us to feel the sour, sweet, bitter and spicy taste of food. However, we can often tell a thing or two about a person's health from his tongue. Many diseases of the human body can be manifested through the tongue, which is like a barometer of the body's health. So let’s find out what disease causes the spicy tongue!

There are many symptoms reflected by the tongue that need to be taken seriously!

The color of normal people's tongue coating is thin and white. Because the tips of the filiform papillae in the tongue mucosa are differentiated into "keratinized trees", the gaps between the branches of the "keratinized trees" are often filled with desquamated keratinized epithelium, saliva, bacteria, mold, food debris and exuded white blood cells. These opaque substances cover the red color of the tongue capillaries, and the keratinized epithelium can absorb water and appear white when moist, thus forming a normal thin, white and moist tongue coating.

1. Too white tongue coating: It is mostly a cold symptom. Thin and slippery tongue coating is mostly caused by wind-cold, while thick, white and slippery tongue coating is mostly caused by cold-dampness or cold phlegm.

2. Yellow tongue coating: It is usually seen in the course of febrile diseases, indicating that the struggle between evil and righteousness is very fierce, the disease has entered the interior, and the evil has turned into heat.

3. Black tongue coating: It is mainly caused by the proliferation and darkening of the filiform papillae of the tongue. There are different shades of brown, gray, charred, and even pitch black. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that if a patient has this kind of tongue coating, the illness must be of a long duration and the disease is complex and serious. The tongue coating is gray and white or gray, greasy, thin and slippery: it is mostly due to internal cold, with symptoms of weakness and febrile disease, or long-term illness and indigestion. The whole tongue is pale purple with blue: smooth and without coating, which is a positive symptom of typhoid fever.

4. Brown tongue coating: intestinal obstruction. Mirror tongue: the tongue has no coating and is as smooth as a mirror. In mild cases, it indicates malnutrition, or lack of iron or vitamin B2 in the body; in severe cases, it means lack of body fluid and serious illness. If the patient has been ill for a long time and has a mirror-like tongue with crimson color, sepsis should also be prevented. If an elderly person's tongue is as smooth as a mirror and the two veins at the bottom of the tongue are thickened and elongated, it indicates cor pulmonale.

5. Penetrating tongue: There is a small blank space in the middle of the tongue coating, and the tongue coating has peeled off. Piercing tongue is a manifestation of damage to yin, and often indicates a lack of nutrition in the body. If children have peeling tongue coating, it indicates malnutrition, which is mainly caused by picky eating, resulting in a lack of certain nutrients in the body, causing partial peeling of the tongue coating. Such children have poor resistance and are prone to catching colds or fevers.

6. Beef tongue: The tongue is dark red, and the tongue coating is smooth and peeled like beef. Beef tongue is commonly seen in patients with pernicious anemia.

7. Tofu moss: It is a relatively thick moss with large and loose particles, shaped like tofu dregs. It is a thick layer piled on the tongue. It is easy to scrape off, but it will gradually pile up again after a while. The presence of rotten moss indicates that the person has excess Yang energy, which can lift and dispel the turbid and rotten air in the stomach. It is a sign that the battle between good and evil is taking place and the disease is getting better.

8. Greasy coating: The tongue is thicker in the center and root, and slightly thinner at the edges and tip. The particles are small and dense, clinging to the tongue and cannot be wiped off or scraped off. The surface of the tongue is covered with a layer of mucus like greasy, and most of the tongue quality is obscured by it and cannot be seen. When viewed with a magnifying glass, the number and branching of the filiform papillae of the greasy moss have increased, and the keratinized trees of each papilla are entangled with each other and not easy to fall off, and a lot of mucus and food particles are embedded in them. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that greasy tongue coating is caused by the suppression of Yang Qi by Yin evil, and there must be pathological changes in the body such as dampness, phlegm, or food accumulation and stubborn phlegm. Such as acute and chronic gastroenteritis.