Why does the tongue coating I scraped off by hand smell so bad?

If you scrape off the tongue coating with your hands and it smells very bad, you must pay attention at this time. On the one hand, it means that the tongue coating is relatively thick, and on the other hand, it means that the tongue coating has an odor. There are many reasons for this, including getting a sore throat, stomach heat, and excessive mental stress, which leads to digestive system abnormalities and constipation. This situation may also be caused by poor oral hygiene.

Why does the tongue coating I scraped off by hand smell so bad?

1. Exogenous fever;

2. Mental stress;

3. Digestive diseases, such as constipation;

4. Mouth breathing;

5. Smoking, poor oral hygiene, and oral inflammation.

Home remedies for bad breath

1. Maziren Pills plus Loquat Leaf Lung Clearing Soup

If the stomach and intestines are dry and hot, and the abdomen is bloated, you can take Ma Zi Ren Wan plus Loquat Leaf Qingfei Decoction

30 grams of hemp seed, 9 grams each of loquat leaf, mulberry bark, phellodendron, immature bitter orange, magnolia bark, white peony root, northern apricot, anemarrhena asphodeloides, and 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. Bamboo leaf gypsum

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the principle of treating bad breath is to clear the heat from the lungs and stomach and moisten the dryness from the large intestine. Bamboo leaf gypsum

Take 30 grams each of raw gypsum and reed root, 12 grams each of raw rehmannia and honeysuckle, 9 grams each of bamboo leaves, ophiopogon, fennel, forsythia and platycodon, 3 grams of licorice, boil five and a half bowls of water and take one bowl of warm water. During the period of taking the medicine, eat less shrimp, crab, bamboo shoots, eggs, peanuts and other easily-inflammed foods and other greasy and difficult-to-digest foods.

3. Xanthium sibiricum, licorice and mint drink

Chronic rhinitis or sinusitis causing fishy breath

Take 9-12 grams each of magnolia flower, Xanthium sibiricum fruit, perilla leaf, Citrus aurantium, Magnolia officinalis, and Houttuynia cordata, and 4.5 grams each of licorice and mint leaf (added later). Decoct in water and take orally.

Diet therapy

Use 9 grams each of honeysuckle, artemisia capillaris, and Achyranthes bidentata, 4.5 grams of perilla leaves, an egg, and a little rock sugar, boil them into sugar water for consumption, or chew the tea leaves, which is also effective in removing bad breath.

In addition, if the tongue coating is yellow and there is bad breath, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, a thick, yellow tongue coating indicates heat, which may be caused by the stomach. Bad breath may be a symptom of oral disease, such as Helicobacter pylori infection in gastritis.