Smoking causes tongue dryness

As people become more health conscious, fewer and fewer people smoke. Smoking is indeed harmful to health, and the nicotine in the smoke is very harmful to the lungs. Although smoking is harmful to health, there are still some young people who smoke. However, some people say that smoking does cause the tongue to become dry, and how to solve it depends on the actual situation. A dry tongue may be caused by getting too hot or by other diseases in the body.

1. The symptoms caused by Yin deficiency and internal heat still need to be slowly adjusted. It is recommended to pay attention to the combination of work and rest. In terms of diet, you should pay attention to eating more vegetables and fruits containing vitamins, drink more water and less sweet and sour drinks, eat less spicy and fried foods, and pay attention to psychological adjustment. You should smoke less or even quit.

2 Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black tongue coating is caused by extreme heat turning into fire. Some people with gastrointestinal problems are prone to cold and dampness, and their tongue coating will become thick and greasy, starting out white and gradually turning yellow or black. Black tongue may also appear when the mind is under high stress. Staying up late and smoking too much can easily cause black tongue. In addition, some foods, such as sour plums, black sesame paste, etc., or medicines, such as compound licorice tablets, iron supplements, etc., can easily turn the tongue coating black. This is only a temporary phenomenon and there is no need to worry.

3. Numbness of the tongue is mostly related to slow blood flow, increased blood viscosity, changes in microcirculation, local blood supply insufficiency or cerebral blood supply insufficiency. You can check whether blood lipids, blood sugar, blood pressure and blood viscosity are increased. Usually pay attention to drink more water. Take small doses of aspirin, salvia miltiorrhiza, vinblastine, ginkgo leaf tablets and other medicines under the guidance of a doctor. And pay attention to supplement vitamins B1, B6, C, etc. It can reduce blood viscosity and improve microcirculation. Can eliminate numbness.

4 According to traditional Chinese medicine, it is damp-heat and food accumulation. It may be that you have not paid attention to your diet recently and have eaten too many kinds of food, or it may be spleen deficiency as described in traditional Chinese medicine, internal damp-heat and rash on the tongue. Therefore, you should pay attention to a light diet recently. You can try taking Baohe Pills, or boil water with Chinese yam and citron, or eat more corn, soak the corn silk in water, or boil corn and coix seed into soup.