Why does your mouth stink?

Everyone may have had this experience: when you are talking to someone, and suddenly you smell bad breath coming out of the other person's mouth, you will definitely feel particularly disgusted, and may even never speak to the other person again. If this is the case, your interpersonal relationships will be in jeopardy. Why does your mouth stink? There are many reasons for this, but the main reason is bad eating habits. Bad breath is a very serious problem, so you must find a way to improve it.

1. Causes of bad breath

It is mainly caused by improper diet, excessive consumption of spicy food, excessive work and other unhealthy lifestyles, which lead to spleen failure and weakened gastrointestinal function, so that food cannot be digested normally in the intestines, and a large amount of food waste cannot be excreted from the body. It accumulates more and more, forming toxins that enter the intestinal wall and blood, thereby damaging the internal organs and causing various diseases. Over time, the food waste deposited in the intestines will accumulate and generate heat, produce odor, evaporate upward, and form bad breath through the mouth and nasopharynx.

2. Treatment of bad breath

To cure bad breath, you must first clear out the toxins in the intestinal walls and blood in the internal organs, restore the stomach and intestines to normal, and allow food waste deposited in the intestines to be excreted from the body, eradicating the first link in the formation of bad breath, thereby curing bad breath and restoring health.

3. TCM prescriptions for treating bad breath

1. If the gastrointestinal dryness and heat are severe and the abdomen is bloated, you can use Ma Zi Ren Wan plus loquat leaf lung-clearing soup: 30 grams of hemp seed, 9 grams each of loquat leaf, mulberry bark, phellodendron, immature bitter orange, Magnolia officinalis, white peony root, northern apricot, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Ophiopogon japonicus, 6 grams of rhubarb (added later), 4.5 grams each of Coptis chinensis and licorice, boil six bowls of water and take one bowl of warm water. For severe constipation, add 4.5 grams of senna leaves to enhance the laxative effect.

2. For those with fishy breath caused by chronic rhinitis or sinusitis: 9-12g each of magnolia flower, Xanthium sibiricum fruit, perilla leaf, immature bitter orange, Magnolia officinalis, and Houttuynia cordata, 4.5g each of licorice and mint leaves (added later), decocted in water and taken orally.

4. Folk remedies for treating bad breath

1. Drink fresh vegetable leaf juice. Take fresh green leaves (or radish leaves, lettuce leaves), rinse them with water, rinse them with cold boiled water, dry them, then chop them with a knife and use a juicer to extract the juice. You can also mash it in a container, squeeze out the juice, and then filter it with clean gauze. You can add a little cold boiled water when taking it, drink 1 cup each morning and evening for two weeks. The effect will be seen.

2. Boil 9 grams of Patchouli leaves and 3 grams of Acorus calamus in water, take orally in two doses per day.

3. Add 30 grams of pure white honey to warm water and stew it once.