Judging stomach cold and heat from tongue coating

It is said that eyes are the windows to the soul, and there is some truth to this. Every manifestation of the human body can reflect whether the body is healthy, by looking at the complexion, feet, lip color, dark circles, etc. Each type of manifestation can reflect the operating status and health of the organs in the body. For example, people who often have severe dark circles without staying up late for a long time mostly have poor liver and kidneys. The softness, color and stripes of the nails can reflect the nutritional status of the body. Similarly, the condition of the stomach can also be reflected by looking at the tongue coating. Now let's learn how to tell stomach cold and stomach heat from the tongue coating

It's the same stomach, one is cold and the other is hot, that is, one is cold and the other is hot, cold and hot are opposites, why is it difficult to judge? Here are the reasons

1. The food we eat daily undergoes thousands of chemical reactions under the action of gastric acid, releasing a large amount of heat, which masks the phenomenon of stomach cold or stomach heat;

2. Stomach cold and stomach heat are only relative. Stomach heat does not mean that the stomach temperature is very high, and stomach cold does not mean that the stomach temperature is very low. The human body is a good constant temperature device. If you are afraid that your child will get frozen, you can often hold the child tightly in your arms. Stomach cold and stomach heat are just a little bit hot or cold, and people can hardly feel it.

3. Although the stomach is a little bit hot or cold, the function of the stomach will be very different. Stomach cold reflects more of the stomach qi sinking, while stomach heat reflects more of the stomach qi rising. This is the natural law of cold and heat, and we cannot violate this law just because it is in our stomach.

4. So we only need to judge one of the symptoms. If it is a symptom of stomach heat, then the stomach is hot. On the contrary, it is stomach cold or moderate, that is, just right.

5. As for stomach heat, heat means heat, which is often called fire in the body. Conversely, if the fire in the body is not the heat of the body, then this kind of fire in the body is really incomprehensible. No one really has fire in the body. Even if you eat freshly grilled barbecue, you swallow it with saliva. In a sense, the fire in the body is heat.

6. Stomach heat will react with heat. No one can imagine that stomach heat reacts to coldness, so our problem is much simpler. It is to understand the fire of the body, which is what people often call getting angry. There is also a science to getting angry.

7. The fire in the body we are talking about is generally divided into two types: one is heart fire and the other is stomach fire.

How can the stomach get inflamed? For example, after eating spicy food, you feel a burning sensation in your stomach, your esophagus and throat feel hot and painful due to the spicy stimulation, and there is also a burning sensation during bowel movements, which causes your stomach to get inflamed. The persistence of this fire will ascend through the esophagus, reflecting as a strong taste in the mouth, i.e. bad breath.

8. Heart fire is quite different. Heart fire is sometimes the same as kidney fire, and kidney fire is also heart fire, because under normal circumstances, the heart and kidney will intersect, and kidney fire and heart fire are both in the blood vessels, balancing the three energizers (mainly the balance between the upper and lower energizers). An example can also illustrate the problem, that is, taking Viagra will immediately make the heart hot, the blood vessels hot and smooth, and the head hot;

9. The only part of the body that can deal with heart fire is the liver (detoxification, detoxification of fire poison). If the liver fails to complete the process, it will directly go to the eyes, so the fire caused by eye pain is different from the fire caused by sore throat.

10. Now the problem is clear. In addition to the fire in the eyes (fire in the eyes actually causes the head to feel hot), if you also feel that you have fire, such as tightness and swelling in the mouth and throat, sores in the mouth and tongue, burning sensation in the esophagus and stool, it is considered to be a symptom of stomach heat;

11. Stomach heat generally cannot enter the blood. If it enters the blood, the small intestine absorbs nutrients according to requirements, so the heat can only move up and down the digestive tract;

12. Another special situation is that the lung and trachea are partially connected to the esophagus. The fire in the lungs is usually obtained through breathing through blood exchange (blood), but when the fire in the esophagus is too big, it is inevitable that it enters the respiratory system and becomes intertwined.

13. Another method is that the tongue represents the heart, and the mouth and lips represent the stomach. The tongue is comfortable in the mouth and the saliva is sweet, which is equivalent to the peace of heart and stomach qi. The stomach is just right at this time, neither cold nor hot. If the tongue feels bitter and cold, it is usually a cold stomach. If it tastes dry and hot (a little dry mouth), it is usually a hot stomach. In addition, stomach cold and stomach heat will vary with the seasons.