How to diagnose stomach problems through tongue coating

Chinese medicine diagnoses diseases through observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation. Observation is a very important step. It mainly involves observing the patient's complexion, complexion, tongue coating, nails, etc. Some diseases will directly cause changes in the tongue coating. Many of us ignore the changes in the tongue coating. The normal tongue coating is even, thin, thick and rosy. Especially for people with stomach problems, the tongue coating will change significantly. The type of stomach disease can be determined based on the different tongue coatings, and then symptomatic treatment can be given.

The tongue coating is a moss-like substance that grows on the surface of our tongue. It can reveal the condition of our spleen and stomach, and thus understand the health of our body. Modern people all have some stomach problems to a certain extent. Paying more attention to observing your tongue coating is a relatively simple and direct way to identify them. The normal tongue image can be summarized in six words: pale pink tongue with thin white coating. Specifically, the tongue is bright pale pink, moist, of moderate size, soft and flexible, and the tongue coating is even, thin, white and moist. If your tongue coating shows the following conditions, you should be careful, because stomach problems have quietly approached you.

How to use Chinese medicine to treat stomach problems based on tongue coating?

1. Thick white tongue coating: heavy phlegm and dampness, and coldness in the body.

"White tongue coating indicates that there is cold in the body. Whether you have eaten cold food or caught a cold, the tongue coating will turn white. Most people nowadays have white tongue coating because they eat fruits and vegetables from the refrigerator and often drink cold drinks." Yang Jinxiang said that if the tongue coating turns white and thickens, it means that there is a problem with the body and the phlegm and dampness are heavy, and you need to pay attention.

For patients with thick white tongue coating, Yang Jinxiang recommends that they should eat less cold foods on a daily basis to reduce irritation to the stomach. In addition, patients with thick and greasy white tongue coating and obesity should control their diet, eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and crude fiber foods. Yam, coix seed, hawthorn, etc. have good effects of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, and eat less fatty and sweet foods. And keep exercising and control your weight.

This type of patients can usually drink some yam and coix seed porridge, which includes yam, coix seed, lotus seeds and lily. Wash the yam, lotus seeds, coix seeds and dried lily, cover with plastic wrap, and soak overnight. Pour all the ingredients into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat then reduce to low heat, add appropriate amount of rock sugar according to your taste, and cook for 10-15 minutes while stirring.

2. The tongue coating is thick, yellow and sticky : poor digestive function of the spleen and stomach, commonly known as food accumulation.

How to use Chinese medicine to treat stomach problems based on tongue coating?

Symptoms: If you see a thick layer of yellow-white dirt on the tongue, the tongue coating is thick and sticky and difficult to scrape off, there is a sour and smelly smell in the mouth, and at the same time, you have a poor appetite and dry stools. This situation is most likely caused by overeating, or eating too much greasy food, poor spleen and stomach digestion function or disorder. Common people call it food accumulation.

Daily conditioning: If the above situation occurs, pay attention to eating a relatively light diet. If food stagnation occurs, you can take some digestive medicines or foods according to the specific situation, such as hawthorn, mushrooms, and radishes. When the stool is particularly dry, you can use some laxatives appropriately.

How to use Chinese medicine to treat stomach problems based on tongue coating?

Medicinal food: Hawthorn porridge

Ingredients: 1 cup of white rice, 40 grams of hawthorn, 8 black dates, 8 cups of water, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

practice:

1. Wash and drain the white rice, and rinse the hawthorn and black dates.

2. Add 8 cups of water to the pot and bring to a boil. Add hawthorn, black dates and white rice and continue to cook until boiling, stirring slightly. Change to medium-low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Add rock sugar and cook until dissolved.

3. Black tongue coating: caused by extreme heat or cold, more common in patients with gastric cancer.

How to use Chinese medicine to treat stomach problems based on tongue coating?

Symptoms: "Extreme heat and extreme cold can cause a black tongue coating, of course, except for stained tongue." In life, if you take certain medicines or foods, the tongue coating will often change color, but these are not pathological coatings. Generally speaking, the color of dyed moss is brighter and shallower, while diseased moss is not easy to fade, so this can be used to distinguish them. Black tongue is often closely related to disease. Clinically, this tongue pattern is often seen in patients with chronic asthmatic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, gastric cancer, chronic renal failure, etc. People with black tongue coating should pay attention to the treatment of their diseases in order to recover as soon as possible.

How to use Chinese medicine to treat stomach problems based on tongue coating?

Medicinal food: Lotus seed tea

Ingredients: 2 grams of lotus seed core, 3 grams of raw licorice.

Preparation: Brew the above two ingredients with boiling water and drink as tea several times a day.

4. The tongue coating peels off or there is no tongue coating: insufficient stomach qi and general weakness.

How to use Chinese medicine to treat stomach problems based on tongue coating?

Symptoms: During the course of the disease, the complete or partial shedding of the tongue coating is called peeling. If the tongue coating completely falls off, making the tongue surface as smooth as a mirror, it is called "smooth peeling tongue" or "mirror tongue". If the tongue coating is not completely peeled off, the peeled area is smooth and has no coating, while the remaining areas have patches of tongue coating with obvious boundaries, it is called "flowery peeling tongue". Peeling tongue coating indicates insufficient stomach qi, depletion of stomach yin or deficiency of both qi and blood, which is a manifestation of general weakness.