What to do if you have a bitter mouth and bad breath? How to treat a bitter mouth with traditional Chinese medicine

I don’t know if you have ever had this experience: you haven’t eaten anything bitter, but your mouth still feels bitter. What’s going on? There are many reasons for a bitter taste in the mouth. It may be caused by damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, or caused by heart fire. How to treat bitter mouth?

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.

2: However, if the bitter taste in the mouth persists for a long time, and is even accompanied by abdominal pain, bloating, fever, weight loss, obvious fatigue, etc., 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.

3: 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.

4: Drinking chrysanthemum, barley and winter melon syrup is also a good idea. 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.

5: 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.

6: At the same time, pay attention to adjusting your diet structure, avoid eating spicy foods, and eat more light and mild foods. 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.

It will taste bitter, but some people feel bitter in their mouths even if they don’t eat bitter food or wake up in the middle of the night. Why is this? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitterness in the mouth is a manifestation of internal heat or external wind-cold turning into heat and entering the gallbladder meridian.