What to do if your mouth is bitter? Everything you eat tastes tasteless.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, bitter mouth is related to the gallbladder. Abnormal gallbladder qi and depressed mood will lead to liver and gallbladder qi stagnation, resulting in bitter mouth. What should we do if our mouth is bitter no matter what food we eat? How to treat bitter mouth?

How to treat bitter mouth

Many friends have experienced bitter mouth and dry throat when waking up early. Chinese medicine believes that bitter mouth is related to organ dysfunction, internal heat, and hyperactivity of internal fire, especially the liver, gallbladder, stomach, and heart functions. For example, liver fire, liver and gallbladder damp-heat, gallbladder depression and phlegm heat, and hyperactivity of heart fire may all cause symptoms of bitter mouth. How to regulate it?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, bitter taste in the mouth is a subjective symptom, which is more common in people with a yang-dominant and hot constitution, and is usually related to oral diseases or digestive system diseases; or eating too much spicy, fried, warm and dry food, high-protein, high-calorie food; or it is related to bad living habits such as lack of sleep and constipation.

If the bitter taste in the mouth is accompanied by irritability, side pain, tinnitus, headache, etc., you can stew soup with golden thread lotus and Ganoderma lucidum, or soak rose, chrysanthemum and selfheal in water to drink as appropriate.

If the bitter taste in the mouth is accompanied by abdominal distension, loss of appetite, eczema, and itchy skin, you can stew bamboo fungus into soup, or boil artemisia capillaris, coix seed, phellodendron, and plantain seed in water to drink as appropriate.

If the bitter taste in the mouth is accompanied by palpitations, poor sleep, frequent dreams and easy awakening, dizziness, vomiting and sputum, you can boil appropriate amounts of Tianzhuhuang or Zhuru, tangerine peel, Poria, Acorus calamus, and Polygala tenuifolia in water and drink it.

If the bitter taste in the mouth is accompanied by irritability, poor sleep, yellow or red urine, or oral ulcers and erosions, you can boil appropriate amounts of twigs, lotus seed cores, bamboo leaves, raw earth, and cypress seeds in water and drink it.

The above-mentioned decoctions are used as general simple treatments and must be used under the premise that the spleen and stomach function normally; in other words, they are not suitable for weak spleen and stomach or spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness. If the bitter taste in the mouth lasts for a long time, you should go to the hospital to consult a relevant doctor, who will give you appropriate treatment measures based on your age, gender, and physical condition. In addition, you should pay attention to rest, eat a light diet, drink plenty of water, eat more vegetables and fruits; keep a happy mood and smooth bowel movements.

What causes bitter mouth in the morning?

What does it feel like to be in unspeakable pain? I only remember someone saying that the pain that can be expressed in words is not pain, only the pain that cannot be expressed in words is the real pain. Well, that describes the pain in one’s heart. What exactly is a bitter taste in the mouth? I have never experienced this and can only learn about it from other people’s descriptions. Many people complain that the bitter taste in the mouth is most obvious after getting up with breakfast. Today we will talk about why the bitter taste in the mouth in the morning is the case? What should I do if the mouth is bitter after getting up?