Normal color of tongue coating

The tongue coating is caused by changes in the color of the tongue. Generally, the changes in the tongue are caused by illness. For example, the symptoms of thick and greasy tongue coating will cause the tongue coating to turn white. This situation usually occurs in the early stages of a cold. In addition, the white and thick tongue coating may also be caused by insufficient spleen and stomach function. It is recommended that you avoid eating raw, cold or fried foods. Let us now understand the complications corresponding to the color of the tongue coating.

Pale tongue with thin white coating

This kind of tongue coating is mostly a symptom of cold, which is common in the early stages of a cold. At this time, you can choose a warm diet, soft food, and soup, such as millet porridge and leavened bread. You can also boil water with onions, ginger, and brown sugar and drink it several times a day. It should be noted that people with this symptom should not eat cold foods, such as cold drinks, cold dishes, crabs, snails, duck eggs, etc.

Thick white tongue coating, or thick white greasy coating

This type of tongue coating is mostly caused by cold and dampness, and is common in people with insufficient spleen and stomach function. It is advisable to choose foods that strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, dispel cold and dampness, such as yam, coix seed, lotus leaf, hawthorn, ginkgo, etc. In addition, when this kind of tongue coating appears, you should eat less sweet, greasy, fried, deep-fried, raw and cold foods, otherwise it will cause abdominal distension and loss of appetite.

Yellow or greasy tongue coating

It indicates damp-heat in the spleen and stomach or gastrointestinal stagnation, which often occurs in infections, fever or digestive dysfunction, and is often accompanied by symptoms such as thirst, irritability, dry and hard stools, and yellow urine. At this time, it is advisable to choose foods that clear heat and dampness, such as winter melon, bitter melon, white radish, loofah, lotus root, mung bean, coix seed, etc., and eat less hot foods, such as lamb, black-bone chicken, fish, shrimp, dates, longan, lychee, mango, cherry, pepper, etc.

So, what is the normal color of tongue coating?

The doctor said that a normal tongue appearance is that the tongue is soft and flexible, the tongue color is light red and bright, the tongue coating is thin and white and even, and the coating is moderately dry and wet.