What medicine should I take for thick yellow tongue coating and bad breath?

Bad breath and thick yellow tongue coating in daily life are manifestations of a disease. Generally, severe stomach fire can easily lead to bad breath and thick yellow tongue coating. It can be improved by taking some medications, such as some fire-reducing drugs or cooling drugs.

What to do if your tongue is thick and yellow and you have bad breath

Eliminate stomach fire: promote food digestion and eliminate bad breath caused by stomach fire.

As long as you drink more ginger water, often put ginger slices in your mouth, and avoid cold foods, you can get rid of this annoying bad breath. But you always feel a strange and smelly taste coming out of your mouth, which is sometimes severe and sometimes light. At this time, you can eat ginger and hold ginger slices in your mouth every day, and avoid all cold foods.

Regulate gastrointestinal flora: The effective ingredients in the Chinese herbal tea therapy recipe Xiangkou Baihui can remove harmful bacteria adhering to the gastrointestinal tract, stimulate the reproduction of probiotics, regulate the balance of oral flora, and completely cure bad breath.

Basic symptoms of thick yellow tongue coating

1. The thickness of the moss is determined by whether the bottom is visible or not. If the tongue body can be seen through the coating, it is called thin coating; otherwise it is called thick coating. Yellow indicates heat in the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the tongue coating is caused by the stomach qi and food gas rising to the tongue.

2. Thick tongue coating and bad breath usually indicate some minor stomach problems. If you don’t feel any other discomfort at the moment, you can start by adjusting your diet and daily life. Maintain a regular life, be in a good mood, eat easily digestible food, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less fatty and fried food, and it is best not to drink alcohol or smoke.

3. In addition to looking at the tongue coating, it is recommended to look at the quality of your tongue and compare it with your lips. If it is reddish, it means heat, if it is pale, it means spleen deficiency, and if it is dark, it may be blood stasis.

4. If the tongue coating is thick and yellow, you need to see if it is greasy. The "greasy" mentioned in Chinese medicine is like the feeling of "oil". If so, it means that there is dampness and heat in the body, which needs to be eliminated and heat cleared.

5. If the tongue coating is simply thick and yellow, the yellow color indicates that there is heat in the body. It is recommended to eat normal and cool food at night and not drink alcohol. You will be able to adjust yourself quickly. Because the tongue coating is sometimes related to the weather, the heat and dampness will prevail in summer, and the tongue coating is easy to be thick. If there is no special discomfort, you can consciously eat some things that can eliminate phlegm and clear heat in your daily life, such as: coix seed, lotus seed, water chestnut, poria, tangerine peel, etc., which all have certain therapeutic effects.