What's going on when the tongue coating turns white and a little red?

A normal person's tongue should be light pink with bright color, moist surface, soft body, and able to rotate flexibly; the tongue coating should be white, with even particles, which cannot be wiped off and is not sticky or greasy. So what is the matter with the tongue coating being white and slightly red?

Tongue coating common sense

When a cold first occurs, the tongue coating will become thick. At this time, ginger tea is the most effective way to dispel cold and dampness. When the tongue coating turns yellow, you can no longer drink ginger tea. In this case, you need to clear away heat.

If the tip of your tongue is particularly red, drink some lotus seed tea with a core early in the morning to avoid insomnia at night due to excessive heart fire.

When you are on a business trip for a few days and your spleen and stomach are upset, your tongue coating will definitely become thick and greasy. Make a pot of five-fingered ginseng dehumidifying soup to prevent the problem forever.

See, tongue diagnosis is like a magic trick that is relatively easy to master, it is not that mysterious.

To some extent, the tongue coating is a representation of a person's stomach qi. For example, Wu Kunan of the Qing Dynasty said: "The coating on the tongue is like the coating on the ground. The coating on the ground is caused by the rise of moisture; the coating on the tongue is caused by the rise of moisture from the stomach and spleen, so it is called coating."

Tongue coating color

The normal tongue coating is a thin white layer, which is tender but not thick, with moderate dryness and wetness, and is neither slippery nor dry.

Yellow tongue coating generally indicates internal heat syndrome. Generally speaking, the darker the color of the yellow tongue coating, the more severe the heat evil is. If the tongue coating is thin, yellow, thick and dry, it means excessive internal heat and damage to body fluids.

Gray-black tongue coating indicates heat syndrome, but also cold-dampness or deficiency-cold syndrome. Gray tongue coating indicates internal symptoms and is often associated with more serious diseases. Black tongue coating is mostly transformed from yellow tongue coating or gray tongue coating, which often indicates that the condition is extremely serious.

White tongue coating is the most common color, which indicates superficial symptoms and cold syndrome, but can also indicate internal symptoms and heat syndrome.

1. As mentioned before, 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.

2. A pale tongue with a thin white coating is mostly caused by deficiency of both Qi and blood.

3. If the tongue coating is thin, white and too lubricated, it is generally seen in superficial symptoms and cold symptoms, which is caused by wind-cold.

4. If the tongue coating is thin, white and dry, it is often seen in superficial heat syndrome or dryness, which is wind-heat.

5. If the tongue coating is white, thick and greasy, it is mostly a symptom of cold and dampness.

6. The tongue coating is white and smooth, moist and has a lot of fluid, which indicates cold syndrome or cold-dampness syndrome. It usually means that the cold damages the middle qi, causing deficiency of qi and underlying yin and cold. *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.

7. If the tongue coating is thick, white and dry, it is a syndrome of excess heat, which means that dampness and turbidity turn into heat and damage body fluids. It is commonly seen in various gastritis, enteritis and halitosis.