Five tongue expressions indicate where you are getting angry

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes "observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation", among which "observation" diagnosis is the easiest to learn and understand. A healthy tongue should be soft and smooth, with a pale red texture, and be covered with a white coating that is thin and evenly granulated and of moderate wetness and dryness. This is called "pale red tongue with a thin white coating." The tip of the tongue reflects changes in the heart and lungs, the middle and sides of the tongue reflect the condition of the liver and spleen, and the root of the tongue indicates kidney lesions. Once the body gets inflamed, the first part to have problems is the tongue.

The tongue can be divided into several parts:

First, look at the tongue. Is it red or purple? Is it light or dark?

Second, look at the tongue coating. Is it yellow or greasy white?

Third, look at the tongue. Are there any cracks or tooth marks? Is it a fat tongue or a thin tongue? Is the tongue stiff? Is it crooked? Finally, look at the veins of the tongue.

A red tip of the tongue indicates heart fire

Generally speaking, a red tongue that is darker than normal is a common symptom of illness. It indicates that there is heat in your body, but the location of the red tongue reflects different problems.

The main manifestation of heart fire is a red tip of the tongue, as well as dry mouth, irritability, mouth ulcers, poor sleep, yellow urine, and dry stools. If the heart fire is strong but the symptoms are mild, Daochi San is often used clinically; if the symptoms are severe, Xiexin Decoction can be used, which contains Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, Phellodendron chinense, and Rhubarb. These Chinese medicines have the effect of purging fire.

There is another common clinical situation: the urine is particularly yellow, and sometimes the mouth is dry and bitter, and the urination is a bit urgent. This is called "heat in the small intestine" and may occur in both adults and children. Most of the heat in the small intestine is caused by the downward movement of heart fire. To relieve the symptoms, you can also use medicines such as Daochisan to clear heart fire and promote urination to solve the problem of the downward movement of heart fire.

Dietary prescription for reducing heart fire:

Rock sugar lotus seed soup:

People with rising internal heat can often drink rock sugar lotus seed soup which can clear the heart and moisten dryness. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that lotus seeds "clear the heart and remove heat", eliminate irritability and heat, clear heart fire, nourish the heart and calm the nerves, and it has a good therapeutic effect on irritability and insomnia caused by internal heart fire.

Stir-fried bitter melon with ginkgo:

Choose 1-2 bitter gourds and 20 ginkgo nuts. Wash the ginkgo nuts and the bitter gourd, and cut them into cubes; soak the bitter gourd and ginkgo nuts in boiling water for a while, and immediately remove them for later use; add a little oil to a wok, add the ginkgo nuts, bitter gourd and seasonings and stir-fry until cooked; thicken with starch and serve on a plate.

Eating appropriate amounts of bitter food in winter can help reduce heart heat. But it should be noted that you should not consume too much ginkgo at one time.

Red tongue indicates liver fire

The clinical manifestations of liver fire and heart fire are different. Mouth ulcers or dry mouth, and poor sleep are typical manifestations of heart fire. If the mouth is not only dry but also bitter and the eyes are red, these are all manifestations of liver fire.

When there is liver fire, the tongue will turn red, but the redness will be more obvious on the sides. Clinically, taking Longdan Xiegan Pills can clear liver fire. In addition, you can also drink medicinal tea, such as brewing water with kuding tea, chrysanthemum and vitex rotundus. If your face becomes red and your blood pressure rises, you can use Prunella Vulgaris and Uncaria Rhynchophylla to make tea, which can help lower your blood pressure.

Dietary prescription for reducing liver fire:

Fried pork liver with black fungus:

You are what you eat, and to deal with liver fire, you also need to nourish the liver. Stir-fried pork liver with black fungus is effective in calming liver fire.

Choose about 40 grams of fungus and 240 grams of pork liver. Soak the fungus until soft, cut off the hard lumps at the bottom, and then cut into thick strips; wash and wipe dry the pork liver, then cut into thick slices, add in the marinade and marinate for about 10 minutes; heat up a pan, add 2 tablespoons of oil, sauté the ginger slices, add the pork liver slices and stir-fry over high heat until cooked; then add the fungus strips and green onions, stir-fry evenly, add a little sugar and salt to taste and serve.

1. Wolfberry Chrysanthemum Tea:

Boil the wolfberries for 30 minutes, then add the chrysanthemums and boil for another 3 minutes. It can be used as tea and is suitable for people who use their brains frequently.

Red tongue, cough, lung fire

The redness is in the front half of the tongue and is accompanied by cough, dry nose, dry mouth, dry throat, etc., which is generally caused by lung fire. Xiebai San is mainly used to clear lung fire. In addition, because the lungs and large intestine are exterior and interior to each other, many patients with lung heat have constipation. Therefore, during treatment, it is necessary to clear the lung heat and relieve the abdominal gas. You can cut 15 grams of Imperata root, 15 grams of Phragmites root, and 50 grams of white radish into pieces and make soup, which is a very good heat-clearing dish.

People with insufficient lung yin also have a red tongue with little coating, accompanied by a dry cough and relatively little sputum. At this time, you can choose yin-nourishing medicine as the main medicine, such as Adenophora and Ophiopogon Decoction; if the condition is more serious, you can add Lily and Gold-Consolidating Decoction, which can both nourish yin and clear away heat. If accompanied by coughing up blood, you should go to the hospital immediately to check if there are other problems in your lungs.

Lung fire reducing diet recipe:

Tremella and pear soup:

Choose 50 grams of Tremella and two pears. Cut the pear into pieces, add 500 ml of water to the white fungus and boil it for 20 minutes. Add a little rock sugar and drink it to moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

Eat some foods with cool properties, such as white radish, white fungus, cabbage, celery, spinach, bamboo shoots, bananas, pears, apples, lilies, star fruit, and loquats. At the same time, drink more water and eat less meat and high-calorie foods such as chocolate.

Red tongue with yellow fur and bad breath are caused by stomach fire

When the stomach is hot, the entire tongue will be redder. Sometimes the tongue is red with yellow coating, and the yellow will cover the red color, so special attention should be paid. People with excessive stomach fire usually show symptoms such as stomach pain, bad breath, bitter taste in the mouth, and a constant desire to drink water, especially cold water. At this time, it is recommended to try medicine to clear stomach heat.

There is also a type of stomach heat in clinical practice, which is accompanied by dry stool, abdominal distension and other symptoms. At this time, Chengqi Decoction can be used. Chengqi Decoction is divided into Dachengqi Decoction, Xiaochengqi Decoction and Tiaoweichengqi Decoction. Different prescriptions need to be selected according to different clinical conditions, so it is best to consult a professional before taking it. Many people use rhubarb to soak in water to help with bowel movements. However, it must be reminded that this method cannot be used for a long time, otherwise it will cause black lesions in the colon.

If in addition to stomach pain, there is a feeling of being neither hungry, nor painful, nor bloated, and you do not want to eat and have a dry mouth, it is usually caused by insufficient stomach yin. You can use reed root, dendrobium, adenophora, etc. to nourish stomach yin.

Dietary prescription for reducing stomach fire:

Lily and mung bean porridge: Boil mung beans and lilies for 15 minutes, then add rice and bring to a boil, then turn to low heat and simmer until the porridge is of appropriate thickness, then add rock sugar as needed.

The ability of lily and mung bean to clear away heat, detoxify and reduce fire is recognized by everyone. Mung bean tastes sweet and is cool in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and relieving restlessness, quenching thirst and strengthening the stomach, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Eating lilies regularly can moisten the lungs and clear the heart, and can relieve cough, stop bleeding, and stimulate the appetite.

Water chestnut and lotus root soup

Select 250 grams each of water chestnuts and fresh lotus root, boil them together and add appropriate amount of rock sugar. Eat it in three days, it has the effect of moistening the stomach, cooling blood and reducing fire.

Red tongue with little coating may be caused by kidney fire

The above situations all belong to syndrome of excess heat, often with a red tongue and yellow coating. If the tongue is red with little or no coating, it is a syndrome of deficiency-heat.

Deficiency-heat syndrome is divided into two stages. The main symptoms of the first stage are sore waist and weak knees, dry mouth, tinnitus, and sometimes poor sleep. At this time, the tongue is red with little coating. If the internal heat becomes more severe and symptoms such as irritability, night sweats, and hot hands and feet appear, it means that the Yin deficiency has become more serious. At this time, the tongue is redder than before and has no tongue coating, or only a thin layer of yellow coating.