What to do if you have tongue coating

Although tongue coating is not a disease, the tongue is the most important organ in the human body. The tongue is the most sensitive organ and also the reflex point of various parts of the body. Currently, more and more patients have tongue coating. Everyone should go to the hospital for a physical examination in time. People with tongue coating usually have problems with the gastrointestinal spleen, digestive system, neurasthenia and other reasons, so everyone should pay attention to a balanced diet.

People with tongue coating should go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible and have examinations of various parts of the body. Severe cases require medication or infusion for treatment. You can also choose Chinese medicine for conditioning and improvement. The effects are very obvious. Check the cause of the disease and prescribe the right medicine.

Many people often find a lot of tongue coating on their tongue when they brush their teeth in the morning. Sometimes it is white, sometimes yellow, sometimes thin, and sometimes very thick. Most people will try to scrape it off, but when they get up the next morning, the same thing happens again, which they find very strange.

Tongue diagnosis belongs to the category of visual diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine. It mainly observes the tongue quality, tongue coating and overall charm. Different parts belong to different internal organs, so the tongue image can faithfully reflect the health status of the internal organs and has diagnostic value. Therefore, people can roughly judge what's wrong with their body based on the recent performance of their tongue, and then adjust their eating and living habits to restore their body to health. It is not advisable to scrape the tongue, because "the tongue is the sprout of the heart". Frequent scraping of the tongue coating can easily damage the heart and will not solve the problem.

Common clinical tongue images: pale red tongue with thick white coating

The most common is spleen dampness, which is also called spleen deficiency and dampness invasion, which is mainly caused by dysfunction of the spleen and stomach digestive system and poor metabolism of water. In addition to the thick white tongue coating, there may also be symptoms such as intestinal bloating, indigestion, loss of appetite, phlegm in the throat, loose and unformed stools, pale complexion, thin or puffy body, loose and weak muscles; female patients may also have excessive vaginal discharge.

People in this situation are advised to eat regularly as much as possible, and eat more coix seed, grains, or lotus seeds, yam and other foods, and choose rice as the staple food to borrow the qi of the grain to help the spleen and stomach, and eat less greasy, sweet foods, watermelon, pear, orange, cabbage, bitter melon, winter melon, celery, white radish, cantaloupe, persimmon and other raw and cold foods; glutinous rice is also on the list of taboos because it is difficult to digest.

Patients with tongue coating usually have the worst condition in the morning. Don’t brush your tongue coating hard before brushing your teeth as this will hurt your temper. In addition, eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, such as radish, watermelon, winter melon, and mung beans, can have a good improving effect. Try not to eat fried, greasy, and irritating foods.