Bad breath and thick tongue coating, three folk remedies to help you deal with it

Once the symptoms of bad breath and thick tongue coating appear in people, if you want to deal with it, you can use folk remedies to treat it. So, what folk remedies are good for bad breath and thick tongue coating?

1. Maziren Pills plus Loquat Leaf Lung Clearing Soup

If the gastrointestinal dryness and heat are severe and the abdomen is bloated, you can use Ma Zi Ren Wan plus loquat leaf lung-clearing soup.

30 grams of hemp seed, 9 grams each of loquat leaf, mulberry bark, phellodendron, immature bitter orange, magnolia bark, 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

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the principle of treating bad breath is to clear the heat from the lungs and stomach and moisten the dryness from the large intestine. Bamboo leaf gypsum can be used as a proven recipe.

Take 30 grams each of raw gypsum and reed root, 12 grams each of raw rehmannia and honeysuckle, 9 grams each of bamboo leaves, ophiopogon, fennel, forsythia and platycodon, 3 grams of licorice, boil five and a half bowls of water and take one bowl of warm water. During the period of taking the medicine, eat less shrimp, crab, bamboo shoots, eggs, peanuts and other easily-inflammed foods and other greasy and difficult-to-digest foods.

3. Xanthium sibiricum, licorice and mint drink

People with fishy breath caused by chronic rhinitis or sinusitis.

Take 9-12 grams each of magnolia flower, Xanthium sibiricum fruit, perilla leaf, Citrus aurantium, Magnolia officinalis, and Houttuynia cordata, and 4.5 grams each of licorice and mint leaf (added later). Decoct in water and take orally.