How to treat thick white tongue coating, diet and daily conditioning methods

I don’t know if you have ever observed your tongue coating when brushing your teeth. A normal person has a thin, white and moist coating on the back of his tongue. However, some people have thick white tongue coating, which is often accompanied by bad breath. Thick white tongue coating is often a sign of heavy moisture in the body. How can we treat tongue coating?

1: Only when there is sufficient blood in the body, the kidney qi will be sufficient, which can ensure smooth blood circulation and the whole body will feel warm and comfortable. Cold and dampness have no foothold in the face of sufficient blood and freely flowing blood. Without cold and dampness, there will be no pain here and there, and no spots, acne, or ringworm.

1: People who exercise regularly, do physical labor and do housework regularly will feel a lot of heat in their bodies. This is because exercise generates heat, which helps dispel cold and dampness. However, if you only focus on exercise but your body does not have enough blood, you will feel tired after exercise, your resistance will decrease, cold and dampness will take advantage of the opportunity to invade, and your body will still be weak and sickly.

1: Eating spicy and warm foods regularly can dispel the cold. Due to differences in geography and climate, each region has its own dietary habits for dispelling cold. For example, people in the north like to eat warm, high-calorie foods such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, beef, and mutton to expel cold; Sichuan people like spicy and hot food; Guizhou people like sour and spicy food; Hunan people like fried and spicy food, etc. Although they are different, their functions are to dispel cold, dampness and keep warm.

1: Ma Zi Ren Wan plus loquat leaf lung clearing soup is used to treat severe gastrointestinal dryness and heat, and abdominal distension. Ma Zi Ren Wan plus loquat leaf lung clearing soup can be used. 30 grams of hemp seed, 9 grams each of loquat leaf, mulberry bark, phellodendron, immature bitter orange, Magnolia officinalis, white peony root, northern apricot, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, and Ophiopogon japonicus, 6 grams of rhubarb (added later), 4.5 grams each of Coptis chinensis and licorice, boil six bowls of water and take one bowl of warm water. For severe constipation, add 4.5 grams of senna leaves to enhance the laxative effect.

2: Bamboo Leaf Gypsum Chinese medicine believes that the principle of treating bad breath should be to clear the heat from the lungs and stomach and moisten the dryness from the large intestine. The proven recipe can use bamboo leaf gypsum, raw gypsum, reed root 30 grams each, raw rehmannia, honeysuckle 12 grams each, bamboo leaf, ophiopogon, fennel, forsythia, platycodon 9 grams each, licorice 3 grams, five and a half bowls of water to boil one bowl of warm drink. During the medication period, eat less shrimp, crab, bamboo shoots, eggs, peanuts and other easily hairy foods and other greasy, indigestible foods.

3: Xanthium sibiricum, licorice and mint drink. For those with fishy breath caused by chronic rhinitis or sinusitis, take 9-12g each of magnolia flower, Xanthium sibiricum fruit, perilla leaf, bitter orange, Magnolia bark, and Houttuynia cordata, 4.5g each of licorice and mint leaves (added last), decocted in water and taken orally.

1: Proper sweating can dispel the cold. Whether you sweat after exercise, sweat after eating warm food, or sweat slightly after soaking your feet, you can achieve the effect of dispelling cold.

Pay attention to adjusting your diet, eat more light food, drink more water, and eat less fried food. Maintain a regular lifestyle and a good mood; take part in more physical exercise.