What is the reason for thick white tongue coating during confinement? Teach you how to identify it

For postpartum women, they can usually detect related problems by observing their own abnormal behaviors. If they have thick white tongue coating during the confinement period, it may be related to the following factors.

1. Yellow tongue coating indicates internal heat syndrome.

The darker the color of the yellow tongue coating, the more severe the heat evil is. If the tongue coating is thin, yellow, thick and dry, it means excessive internal heat and damage to body fluids.

2. Gray-black tongue coating indicates heat syndrome, but also cold-dampness or deficiency-cold syndrome.

Gray tongue coating indicates internal symptoms and is often associated with more serious diseases. Black tongue coating is mostly transformed from yellow tongue coating or gray tongue coating, which often indicates that the condition is extremely serious.

3. White tongue coating is the most common color of tongue coating, which mainly indicates superficial symptoms and cold syndrome, but it can also indicate internal symptoms and heat syndrome.

① It is normal for the white tongue coating to be thin, white and moist, but it may also mean that the disease is on the surface of the body and has not entered the body.

② A pale tongue with a thin white coating is mostly caused by deficiency of both Qi and blood.

③ The tongue coating is thin, white and overly smooth, which is generally seen in superficial symptoms and cold symptoms, and is caused by wind-cold.

④ If the tongue coating is thin, white and dry, it is often seen in superficial heat syndrome or exposure to dryness evil, which is wind-heat.

⑤ Thick and greasy white tongue coating is often seen in patients with cold and dampness.

⑥ The tongue coating is white and smooth, moist and has a lot of fluid, which indicates cold syndrome or cold-damp syndrome. It usually means that the cold damages the middle qi, causing deficiency of qi and underlying yin and cold.

⑦ The tongue coating is white, smooth, sticky and thick, which is often seen in the body with phlegm or dampness or dampness trapped in the spleen.

⑧The tongue coating is white, smooth and rotten, which means that there is heat accumulation in the stomach and damp heat is suppressed.

⑨ Thick, white and dry tongue coating is a syndrome of excess heat, which means that dampness and turbidity turn into heat and damage body fluids. It is commonly seen in various gastritis, enteritis and halitosis.