What is the cause of thin yellow tongue coating? How to treat it?

As we all know, thin yellow tongue coating is a common symptom in people. Generally speaking, after people have the symptom of thin yellow tongue coating, they also need to understand the relevant causes. So, what is the reason for the thin yellow tongue coating?

What is the cause of thin yellow tongue coating?

The yellow and greasy tongue coating is called yellow greasy coating in TCM diagnosis. The tongue appearance is yellow and sticky, with tightly adhered particles, and yellow powder is applied to the tongue surface. The yellow and greasy tongue coating is formed by the combination of pathogenic heat and phlegm, dampness and turbidity. Yellow tongue coating indicates heat, greasy tongue coating indicates dampness, phlegm, and food stagnation. The main diseases caused by yellow and greasy tongue coating are: stagnation of damp-heat, phlegm and fluid turning into heat, or food stagnation turning into heat; it also causes exogenous summer heat, damp-heat, etc. Cure heat, eliminate dampness and remove phlegm. In addition, when distinguishing the yellow and greasy tongue coating, attention should also be paid to combining the tongue quality. It is common in clinical practice in acute and chronic gastroenteritis. Tongue images of patients with cholecystitis, uremia, etc.

How to treat thin yellow tongue coating?

Treatment of yellow greasy tongue coating

The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, the mouth is often dry, there are teeth marks on the edges of the tongue, fever in the five hearts, the tongue is red with little coating, and the pulse is thin and rapid. Treatment: Nourish yin and reduce fire. You can take: Zhibai Dihuang Pills, Dabuyin Pills, Liuwei Dihuang Pills, etc. (In this statement, thick and greasy tongue coating and red tongue with less coating are contradictory. How can less coating be thick and greasy? The logic is wrong))

Yellow and greasy tongue coating caused by summer heat and dampness cold

Symptoms: Occurs in summer, with dirty face, hot body, and sweating, but the sweating is not smooth, the body heat does not rise, the body feels heavy and tired, dizzy and has severe headaches, or there may be nasal congestion and runny nose, cough with yellow sputum, chest tightness and nausea, short and dark urine, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a weak and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Clear away heat, remove dampness and relieve exterior symptoms.