How to treat yellow and greasy tongue coating

During the consultation process in traditional Chinese medicine, the patient's tongue coating will be checked. The development and changes of the disease and the patient's physical recovery can be shown through the tongue coating. A yellow and greasy tongue coating is usually caused by too much dampness and heat in the stomach, so the main treatment is to clear away dampness and heat. Patients can solve the disease through medication and food therapy. Next, let us learn more about the specific treatment of yellow and greasy tongue coating.

1. What does yellow and greasy tongue coating look like?

When talking about yellow and greasy tongue coating, some people may have questions, "What kind of tongue coating is yellow and greasy?" In fact, it is very intuitive. The tongue coating is yellow and sticky, the particles are tightly adhered, and yellow powder is added to apply on the tongue surface.

2. Why is the tongue coating yellow and greasy?

In most cases, a yellow and greasy tongue coating is caused by the combination of pathogenic heat and phlegm and dampness. Yellow tongue coating indicates heat, greasy tongue coating indicates dampness, phlegm, and food stagnation. In other words, yellow and greasy tongue coating is mostly a symptom of damp heat, but it can also be caused by qi deficiency and dysfunction of transportation and transformation, resulting in dampness.

The basic symptoms of yellow and greasy tongue coating: 1. If the tongue is light red, the yellow coating covers the entire surface of the tongue, and the coating is moist and not dry; there is a little white coating on the edges and tip, it is caused by the external evil turning into heat and entering the Yangming stomach. Main diseases: syndrome of heat entering Yangming, damp-heat in Qi, liver and gallbladder diseases, urinary tract infection, and various febrile diseases. Treatment should be based on clearing away heat, detoxifying, and dredging the exterior and interior. 2. If the tongue is red, with a greasy yellow coating that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges, and is tight and fine, especially at the root, it is mostly due to the combination of heat and phlegm, or dampness entering the body and turning into heat, or warm and hot evils gathering in the stomach and intestines, and has not yet reached the stage of Yangming dryness and solidity. 3. If the tongue is dark red and has cracks, it is a sign of severe nutrient heat. The main diseases are: heat and phlegm, damp heat in the middle burner, and food stagnation in the stomach and intestines. The treatment should be to clear away heat and dampness, eliminate phlegm and relieve stagnation. 4. If the tongue is purple, with thick gray-yellow fur, and the fur is moist but not dry, it is a critical sign of mixed cold and heat, with heat turning into cold, or cold turning into heat. It is mostly because the fever does not heal, the heart yang declines suddenly, phlegm and aversion to fluids persist for a long time, and the external evil enters the body and turns into heat; in the hot summer, eating raw and cold food leads to cholera; the yin is strong inside, forcing the heat to float up; there is blood stasis in the body. The evil turns into heat; so the main disease is true cold and false heat, heart and kidney yang decline, cholera vomiting and diarrhea, and asthma. The treatment should be to warm the heart and kidneys, restore yang and rescue the adverse condition; clear away heat and resolve phlegm; promote blood circulation and remove stasis. 5. If the tongue is purple, with yellow greasy coating, the tongue is fat, and the surface of the tongue is covered with yellow coating. There is white coating in the middle, which is thicker at the root. It is yellow, thick and greasy. It may be caused by Yin syndrome, internal stagnation of phlegm and dampness, stagnation of cold evil, damp food blocking the middle burner, stagnation of qi and blood, and also symptoms of damp heat and gastrointestinal waste. The treatment is to warm the yang and strengthen the spleen, promote blood circulation and eliminate accumulation.

Patients with this type of tongue pattern generally have more complicated conditions, and treatment should be based on syndrome differentiation and medication. A normal person has a thin, white, and moist coating on the back of his tongue, which is called tongue coating. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, which is usually caused by phlegm heat, food accumulation or internal damp heat. The tongue coating is yellow, smooth and moist, which is a sign of yang deficiency.

1. The thickness of the moss is determined by whether the bottom is visible or not. If the tongue body can be seen through the coating, it is called thin coating; otherwise it is called thick coating. Yellow indicates heat in the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the tongue coating is caused by the stomach qi and food gas rising to the tongue. 2. Thick tongue coating and bad breath usually indicate some minor stomach problems. If you don’t feel any other discomfort at the moment, you can start by adjusting your diet and daily life. Maintain a regular life, be in a good mood, eat easily digestible food, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less fatty and fried food, and it is best not to drink alcohol or smoke. 3. In addition to looking at the tongue coating, it is recommended to look at the quality of your tongue and compare it with your lips. If it is reddish, it means heat, if it is pale, it means spleen deficiency, and if it is dark, it may be blood stasis. 4. If the tongue coating is thick and yellow, you also need to see if it is greasy. The "greasy" mentioned in Chinese medicine is like the feeling of "oil". If so, it means that there is dampness and heat in the body, which needs to be eliminated and heat cleared. 5. If the tongue coating is simply thick and yellow, the yellow color indicates that there is heat in the body. It is recommended to eat normal and cool food at night and not drink alcohol. You will be able to adjust yourself quickly. Because the tongue coating is sometimes related to the weather, the heat and dampness will prevail in summer, and the tongue coating is easy to be thick. If there is no special discomfort, you can consciously eat some things that can eliminate phlegm and clear heat in your daily life, such as: coix seed, lotus seed, water chestnut, poria, tangerine peel, etc., which all have certain therapeutic effects.

3. What does a yellow and greasy tongue coating indicate?

You should know that the tongue coating will not appear yellow and greasy for no reason, which means that your health has sounded the "red light". Patients with liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and diabetes are prone to yellow and greasy tongue coating. In addition, patients with urinary system diseases, such as kidney stones, ureteral stones, acute pyelonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and acute glomerulonephritis, are also prone to yellow greasy tongue coating. In addition, patients who use hormones for a long time may also have a yellow and greasy tongue coating.

Here we suggest that if you find that your tongue coating is yellow and greasy and you feel a little uncomfortable, it is best to go to the hospital for treatment. If you do not have obvious physical discomfort, but the yellow and greasy tongue coating does not disappear for a long time, try to go to the hospital for a check-up as soon as possible to prevent the disease in the early stage.