How to treat a bitter mouth? Chinese medicine recommends a recipe for conditioning

In life, we have eaten bitter things, such as bitter gourd, which naturally leaves a bitter taste in our mouths. However, many times we clearly did not eat anything bitter, but still feel bitter in our mouths. In traditional Chinese medicine, this is a manifestation of internal heat or exogenous wind-cold turning into heat and entering the gallbladder meridian.

1: Exogenous wind-cold Exogenous wind-cold evil qi turns into heat and enters the Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, often causing symptoms such as bitter taste in the mouth. The Treatise on Febrile Diseases says that “the symptoms of Shaoyang disease are bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, dizziness, irritability, and nausea.”

2: Improper diet or lack of necessary exercise after a full meal can also cause bitter taste in the mouth. This is because food stays in the gastrointestinal tract for too long, which easily produces damp heat, resulting in a bitter taste in the mouth and vomiting of bitter water, and is often accompanied by symptoms such as yellow and greasy tongue coating, abdominal distension and pain, and yellow urine.

3: Bitter taste in the mouth is caused by damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder. There is stagnant heat in the gallbladder meridian or liver heat is transferred to the gallbladder, causing the gallbladder qi to rise. Bitter taste in the mouth caused by damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder is most likely due to inflammation in the liver and gallbladder, especially in patients with cholecystitis and cholelithiasis. Due to poor gallbladder function, abnormal bile secretion causes a bitter taste in the mouth. People with liver and gallbladder diseases not only have a bitter taste in the mouth, but also have symptoms such as headache and dizziness, flushed face and eyes, impatience and irritability, dry and hard stools, and a red tongue.

4: Bitter taste in the mouth caused by heart fire. This type of bitter taste in the mouth is caused by anxiety, irritability, or staying up late, which leads to indigestion and poor bile excretion. It is often accompanied by flushed face, headache, red eyes, and yellow urine. It is worth noting that psychological bitterness in the mouth is also relatively common. Some people are likely to experience a bitter taste in the mouth due to excessive pressure from work and study, and when they are often angry, irritable, anxious, fearful, uneasy, or suffer from insomnia.

5: Diseases Some patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes and certain tumors, often have a bitter taste in the mouth and should be vigilant. People with irregular living habits and lack of sleep often have a bitter taste in their mouth when they wake up in the morning. Severe snoring or sleeping with the mouth open can also easily cause bitter taste in the mouth. Excessive smoking, alcoholism, etc. can also cause bitter taste in the mouth. People with oral inflammation may have a bitter taste in their mouth directly caused by local diseases such as gingivitis and other oral diseases.

1: If the bitter taste in your mouth only lasts for a short period of time, don't worry too much, it may disappear naturally. However, if the bitter taste in the mouth persists for a long time, and is even accompanied by abdominal pain, bloating, fever, weight loss, and obvious fatigue, you need to go to the dentistry, gastroenterology, and hepatobiliary departments to check whether you have cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, or diseases of the digestive tract and other systems. If there is no obvious visceral disease, common colds and dysfunctional bitter taste in the mouth can be treated with Chinese herbal decoctions or Chinese patent medicines under the doctor's prescription.

2: The most convenient way is to drink green tea. Brewing tea with boiling water, drinking the tea and chewing the tea leaves can cure bitter taste and bad breath in the morning.

3: Drinking chrysanthemum, barley and winter melon syrup is also a good way. Chrysanthemum, coix seed and winter melon syrup is mainly used to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and to treat bitter taste in the mouth caused by summer heat. Take 15g chrysanthemum, 30g coix seed, 100g wax gourd and 15g white sugar, add water and boil chrysanthemum and coix seed for 30 minutes, remove the two herbs and keep the juice, then add wax gourd and cook soup, add white sugar when the soup is ready.

4: You can also take vitamin C tablets orally, which is effective for any cause of bitter taste in the mouth. Vitamins should be dissolved under the tongue. Generally speaking, mild bitter taste in the mouth will disappear after taking the medicine 2 to 3 times.

5: At the same time, pay attention to adjusting your diet structure, do not eat spicy food, and eat more light and mild food. In terms of diet, you should avoid spicy, raw, cold, fried, barbecued and other hot foods. For example, sushi can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort and increase the bitterness of the mouth. To adjust your diet, you can drink more cool soups and mainly eat cool foods, such as yam. In daily life, we should avoid alcohol, sweet foods and fatty foods, drink more water and eat more fruits and vegetables.

Develop good living habits, stay up late less, go to bed early and get up early. If you are under a lot of stress, you should know how to adjust. If you have a bitter taste in your mouth for a long time, it is best to get checked.