What is the cause of white tongue coating

We often have fun sticking out our tongues and making faces in the mirror, but most people don’t notice changes in their tongue coating that may indicate a problem with some system in your body. The tongue coating is a mirror of the gastrointestinal system, telling you whether you are in physical discomfort, so you must not ignore these subtle clues.

So what should be the normal color of the tongue coating? What color of the tongue coating indicates that there is something abnormal in your body? What color of the tongue coating indicates that you are sick? Many people with abnormal tongue coating have questions.

The tongue coating is a layer of dirt spread on the tongue. In fact, under normal circumstances, our tongue coating is generally thin and white. If the tongue coating is thick and white, it means that your gastrointestinal tract has been diseased. Due to the strength of the patient's stomach qi, various pathological tongue coatings can be formed. Different tongue coating symptoms reflect different gastrointestinal diseases. It is normal for the white tongue coating to be thin, white and moist, but it may also mean that the disease is on the surface of the body and has not entered the body. A pale tongue with a thin white coating is mostly caused by deficiency of both Qi and blood. If the tongue coating is thin, white and too smooth, it is generally seen in superficial symptoms and cold symptoms, which is caused by wind-cold. If the tongue coating is thin, white and dry, it is often seen in superficial heat syndrome or exposure to dryness evil, which is wind-heat. If the tongue coating is white and thick, it is mostly a symptom of cold-dampness syndrome. The tongue coating is white and smooth, moist and fluid, which indicates cold syndrome, or cold-dampness syndrome. It mostly means that the cold hurts the middle, causing deficiency of Qi in the middle and causing Yin-cold to lie underneath. *A tongue coating that is white, smooth, sticky, and thick is often seen when there is phlegm and dampness in the body or dampness is trapped in the spleen. *The tongue coating is white, smooth and rotten, which indicates that there is heat accumulation in the stomach and damp heat is suppressed. If the tongue coating is white, thick and dry, it is a syndrome of excess heat, which means that dampness and turbidity turn into heat and damage body fluids. It is common in various gastritis, enteritis and halitosis.

Through the introduction of the above content, we can understand that the normal color of the tongue coating is thin and white. Once it is thick and white, it means that there are symptoms of discomfort in the body. You should pay attention to it because these symptoms may indicate that there is a lesion in your gastrointestinal tract. After understanding this knowledge, you can pay more attention to your daily diet and eat less irritating foods.