What should I do if my tongue has thick yellow coating, bitter taste and bad breath?

Traditional Chinese medicine can detect problems in the body through the tongue coating. If we have damp heat in the spleen and stomach, it is easy to have a thick yellow tongue coating, and in many cases it is accompanied by symptoms of bitter taste and bad breath. We should pay attention to this, and Chinese medicine conditioning is very effective.

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.

We should pay attention to the problem of thick yellow tongue coating. The most common cause of thick and greasy tongue coating is not "getting angry" but "stomach qi stagnation", that is, the decline of the function of the entire digestive system. It is generally seen in people who eat a lot of fish and meat, and spicy and sweet food. How to judge whether there is fire at this time? According to the basic principles of Chinese medicine diagnosis, when there is a thick and greasy tongue coating, accompanied by bitter taste in the mouth, sticky mouth, bad breath, mouth ulcers, thirst, constipation in the lower abdomen or yellow, red, smelly and hot urine, burning sensation in the anus and even carbuncles, sores and boils, this is called "fire". If these symptoms are not present, it can only be called “food stagnation”. Patients only need to take some laxatives to help the tongue coating go away.