My tongue is bitter when I wake up in the morning

If you have a bitter taste in your tongue when you wake up in the morning, this is most likely caused by a weak spleen and stomach. The spleen and stomach function has a particularly great impact on human health. If there are spleen and stomach problems but they are not treated in time, it can easily lead to health conditions such as malnutrition! Next, I will introduce to you some methods to recuperate a weak spleen and stomach!

1. General Dietary Requirements

If you usually have a weak spleen and stomach, or suffer from stomachache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. caused by cold syndrome, you should eat more spicy and hot foods such as onions, ginger, leeks, garlic, and pepper. If you have a weak spleen and stomach, you should eat red dates, yam, lentils, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, etc. People with excessive stomach heat should eat dry, cold and body-warming foods such as pears, lotus roots, sugar cane and honey. If the patient has blocked qi, he should eat more radish, bergamot, kumquat, or seasonings made from orange peel. Here we will briefly describe those related to spleen and stomach diseases.

2. Commonly used dietary therapy methods

(1) Yipi Cake

Atractylodes macrocephala, dried ginger, chicken gizzard lining, and cooked jujube meat. Grind and roast the first three ingredients, mix with jujube meat, mash them into paste, make into small cakes, roast over charcoal fire until dry, chew and swallow slowly on an empty stomach in the morning.

(2) Honey

After the honey is steamed, take it once on an empty stomach before meals, 2 to 3 times a day, and take it every day.

(3) Barley and Lotus Seed Porridge

Appropriate amounts of coix seed, lotus seed (peeled and cored), and rock sugar. First fry the coix seeds, then add the lotus seeds. When the porridge is ready, add rock sugar and eat it for breakfast.

(4) Yam and Lentil Cake

Fresh yam, lentils, tangerine peel, and red dates. Peel the yam and cut it into thin slices. Then chop the jujube meat, mix them evenly and steam them into cake. Eat it for breakfast, 50 to 100 grams each time.

(5) Barley soup

Mutton, cardamom, barley kernels. After slicing the mutton, boil it with the cardamom and cook it into soup. After filtering, use the soup to cook barley kernels. When cooked, add a little salt. You can also filter the juice and cook it together with the meat.

3. Lifestyle care

(1) Maintain a cheerful spirit and avoid mental trauma caused by excessive fatigue, worry, sadness, fear, tension and other factors.

(2) Use your brain less before meals, concentrate on eating, take a short rest after meals, and develop good living habits.

(3) Keep warm, especially your abdomen. Wear a cotton bellyband on your abdomen if necessary. You should not sleep outdoors in the summer to cool off.

(4) Exercise to strengthen your physical fitness by doing internal qigong, health exercises and Tai Chi as appropriate.