What causes bitter taste in the mouth when having a cold?

Some friends will encounter the disease of cold in life, but they don’t understand why they have a bitter taste in the mouth. In fact, according to traditional Chinese medicine, it is because the patient has damp heat in the liver and gallbladder. In this case, you can take some Chinese medicine to help regulate the condition.

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Dry mouth and bitter taste are mostly caused by damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder

Patients feel a distinct bitter taste in their mouths, accompanied by dry mouth and tongue, distension and pain in the flanks, short and yellow urine, etc. These symptoms are often diagnosed as damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder in traditional Chinese medicine. Clinically, patients with liver and gallbladder damp-heat types such as acute hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, and acute urethritis often feel a bitter taste in the mouth. The symptoms of bitter taste in the mouth can be quickly improved by taking Chinese medicines such as Plantain, Centella asiatica, and Artemisia capillaris that can clear away heat and dampness, and soothe the liver and gallbladder.

Bitter taste in the mouth sometimes comes from emotions

The oral cavity of a healthy person generally feels fresh and comfortable, except for a slight bitter or sour feeling in the mouth when waking up at night or for a short while after getting up in the morning. Many people will have abnormal taste when they are sick: light, dry, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, numb, etc., among which bitter taste is the most common. Abnormal taste is different from bad breath. It is a subjective feeling of the patient and cannot be experienced by people around him.

1. For patients who have obvious bitter taste in the mouth and also experience abdominal distension and pain, belching, loss of appetite, and red tongue with thick yellow fur, remove Acorus calamus, Artemisia capillaris, Dihuang cycad, and raw Coix seeds from the above prescription, and add 15 grams of Taraxacum mongolicum, 10 grams of Citron, and 6 grams of Amomum villosum (to be added later).

2. If the patient has a little runny nose, sneezing or headache and other cold symptoms, remove Radix Dioscoreae and Artemisia Capillaris from the above formula and add 10g of Schizonepeta Tenuifolia, 6g of Vitex Mangifera Indica and 8g of Saposhnikovia Divaricata.

3. For patients with bitter taste in the mouth and general fatigue, sore joints and muscles, and a very yellow, greasy and moist tongue coating, remove Artemisia capillaris and Acorus gramineus from the above formula, and add 6 grams each of Notopterygium wilfordii and Angelica dahurica, 8 grams of Phellodendron chinense, and 10 grams of Atractylodes lancea. The decoction method is the same as above.

4. If there is severe bitterness in the mouth accompanied by loose stools, dull pain in the abdomen, and tenesmus, remove the Artemisia capillaris, Radix Dianthus, and raw Coix seeds from the above formula, and add 15 grams of stir-fried honeysuckle, 8 grams of Magnolia officinalis (to be added later), and 6 grams of Picrorhizon. The decoction method is the same as above.