What is the cause of pain on the edge of the tongue? How to treat it

The symptom of pain on the edge of the tongue will affect many people's eating and talking. Therefore, when dealing with it, we need to first find out the cause.

What causes pain on the edge of the tongue?

Pain on the side of the tongue may be caused by excessive liver and gallbladder fire or lung fire. The rise of liver fire is called liver dryness and excessive fire in traditional Chinese medicine, which indicates a problem in the regulation of qi and blood in the internal organs of the human body. The liver provides hematopoietic function for the human body and is one of the main blood organs of the human body. Hematopoietic function of the liver is regulated according to the absorption of nutrition and spirit by the human body. Once the nutrition of the human body is in short supply and the spirit is disordered, the hematopoietic function of the liver will be inhibited. The blood also contains water. When the blood and qi are not smooth, other organs of the human body will reduce their own functions due to ischemia, which will seriously cause liver disease and other organ diseases. When the condition is not serious, dry and cracked skin, mouth ulcers, irritability and lung heat may occur.

Whether it is real fire or false fire, dry cough with little sputum, dry mouth and throat may occur. However, if the heat is too strong and burns the lung meridian, the symptoms of real heat syndrome may also include fever, thirst, yellow sputum, sore throat, constipation, yellow urine, mouth ulcers, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse. Lung yin deficiency syndrome may be accompanied by dry throat, obvious dry mouth at night, little and sticky sputum, fever in the five hearts, night sweats, red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse, which are manifestations of insufficient lung yin.

Commonly used Chinese medicine prescriptions:

(1) Commonly used prescriptions include Daochi powder, Huanglian Jiedu decoction, Baihe Gujin decoction, Zhibai Dihuang decoction, Baihu decoction, Dachengqi decoction, Erzhi pills, etc.

(2) Commonly used yin-nourishing Chinese medicines include Asparagus cochinchinensis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Scrophularia ningpoensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Ligustrum lucidum, and Eclipta prostrata.

(3) Commonly used heat-clearing and fire-purging medicines include rhubarb, coptis root, phellodendron, gardenia, gypsum, etc.

(4) Commonly used heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs include Forsythia suspensa, Honeysuckle, and Isatis indigotica.