Mouth is always sticky

Brushing teeth twice a day, morning and evening, is a daily cleaning task that people must do, because the food residues they eat may remain inside the mouth, which will affect the mouth if retained for a long time, and may even cause oral diseases. If people feel that their mouth is always sticky, it may be caused by stomach disease, which is often referred to as spleen and stomach damp-heat. Let’s learn about the causes.

1. What causes sticky mouth?

Frequent dry mouth, sticky and astringent feeling in the mouth, and even loss of taste in food, is closely related to spleen and stomach diseases, and may be related to the spleen and stomach's function of transporting water and moisture. People with damp-heat in the spleen and stomach often experience dryness and a sticky feeling in the mouth. This is because damp-heat is a sticky evil that stagnates in the middle-jiao intestines and stomach and overflows into the mouth, making the mouth sticky and uncomfortable.

The main symptoms are a sweet and sticky taste in the mouth, sour taste when eating sweets, poor appetite and nausea, heaviness and fatigue, or dry and bitter mouth, thirst but no desire to drink; there may also be yellow urine, constipation, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, burning pain in the abdomen, noisy and acid reflux, etc.

Second, the common causes are these:

1. Feeling of external evil: Due to the physiological characteristics of the spleen and stomach, dampness and dryness can easily invade the spleen and stomach. External evil refers to the six evil qi of wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire;

2. Improper diet: alcohol addiction, overeating, overeating fatty and sweet foods, unclean food, and irregular diet can easily damage the spleen and stomach, and then cause food stagnation, dampness obstruction, qi stagnation, etc., which can turn into heat over time;

3. Influence of emotions: Excessive thinking and poor emotions will affect the liver's function of dispersing and regulating. The normal dispersing and regulating of the liver is an important condition for the spleen to rise and stomach to descend and coordinate the healthy function of the spleen. Therefore, if the liver fails to disperse and regulate, the spleen's rising and stomach descending will be disordered, the spleen's failure to function properly will generate dampness, and dampness will turn into heat.

3. How to treat sticky mouth

1. Keep a happy mood

Emotional factors can have a great impact on appetite, digestion, and absorption. Bad emotions can lead to decreased appetite, abdominal distension, heating, indigestion and other discomfort symptoms. To regulate the spleen and stomach function, you must first maintain a good mood, be less angry, less worried, read more books and newspapers, and relax your mind.

2. Eat a light and nutritious diet

People with damp-heat in the spleen and stomach should eat less fatty and greasy foods, and avoid spicy foods, smoking and drinking. These foods can damage the spleen and stomach, accumulate dampness and generate heat. They should pay attention to a light diet, with less oil, salt and other seasonings. At the same time, they should ensure comprehensive nutrition, diversify their foods as much as possible, eat in moderation, and avoid overeating.

3. Maintain appropriate activities

Such as walking, jogging, Tai Chi, yoga, etc., moderate physical exercise can increase the body's gastrointestinal function, strengthen gastrointestinal motility, increase the secretion of digestive juice, promote food digestion and absorption of nutrients, and improve the body's blood circulation and promote its metabolism. It can not only enhance physical fitness, but also delay the aging of the digestive system.

4. You can do self-massage every day

1). Abdominal massage: Before going to bed every night, put your hands together and rub your abdomen in clockwise and counterclockwise directions with your navel as the center for 10 times each. This can help the spleen function, remove stagnation, and clear away foul air, and has a good health-care effect on the spleen and stomach.

2). Massage Zusanli: Press the Zusanli point with your thumbs, which is located 3 inches below the outer kneecap, on the outer side of the tibia. Press left and right 30 times. It can dry out spleen dampness and generate stomach qi.