Why do you feel bitter in your mouth? What can you relieve by eating bitter food in your mouth?

We always feel bitter in mouth occasionally in our life. General Chinese medicine believes that there is something wrong with our bodies at this time. Perhaps it is called sub-health state in western medicine, which requires us to actively adjust ourselves. Of course, we must first find out the cause before we can prescribe the right medicine. So, how should I adjust the general bitterness in my mouth?

1, Chinese medicine interprets the causes of bitter taste

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter taste is mostly caused by hot steamed bile or stomach heat fumigation overflow. Its disease lies in the deficiency of heart, spleen, liver and kidney, which leads to the excess of liver and gallbladder evil. Please read Chinese medicine to interpret the causes of bitterness:

1, gallbladder heat syndrome

Main symptoms: shaoyang disease, chest pain, cold and fever, bitter mouth and dry throat, vomiting is optional; Or gallbladder disease, hypochondriac swelling and pain, nausea and vomiting, or bile, thin yellow fur, thready pulse.

Treatment: reconcile shaoyang, soothe the liver and benefit the gallbladder.

Prescription: Xiaochaihu decoction combined with Wendan decoction.

2. Stagnation of liver qi and heat

Indications: Bitter mouth and dry throat, vexation and irritability, dizziness and headache, red eyes and hypochondriac pain, short and yellow urine, dry stool, red and pointed tongue, thin and yellow fur and rapid pulse.

Treatment: clearing liver heat.

Prescription: Longdan Xiegan Decoction.

3. Fever

It is found in various types of fever, so we should prescribe the right medicine.

2. How to alleviate the problem of bitter taste?

In diet, we should avoid spicy, fried, barbecue and other hot and dry products, but eat more cold soup, mainly cold diet, and avoid alcohol and fat in life; In addition, we should pay attention to emotional adjustment, keep a calm mind, not be impatient, not excessively depressed, and have a cheerful personality. People who are introverted and indecisive are most likely to suffer from bitterness, so keeping a happy mood is the key to prevent and treat this disease.

3. This diet remedy can relieve the bitter taste.

1, Lycium barbarum and egg soup

Lycium barbarum 15g, 2 eggs. First, add Lycium barbarum and the cooked soup, add the stirred eggs into the soup, and then cook.

Indications: It tastes slightly bitter.

2. Chrysanthemum, barley and melon syrup

Chrysanthemum 15g, coix seed 30g, wax gourd 100g, and white sugar 15g. Add water to boil chrysanthemum and coix seed for 30min, take out the two medicines and leave juice, then add wax gourd to make soup, and add white sugar to the soup.

Indications: Clearing fire and dispelling summer heat, and bitter taste caused by summer heat.

3. Fresh bamboo shoots and lean broth

50g fresh bamboo shoots and lean meat 100g. Boil lean meat in water first, then add fresh bamboo shoots, burn them until they are cooked, and add a little salt.

Indications: cooling and purging fire, treating bitter mouth and dry mouth.

Under normal circumstances, when people are overtired or have poor sleep, they will have a short and slight taste abnormality, which usually does not need treatment and will disappear after rest. If you feel bitter in the mouth for a short time, don't worry too much, it may disappear naturally. However, the bitter taste lasts for a long time, even accompanied by abdominal pain, bloating, fever, emaciation, obvious fatigue and other symptoms. It is necessary to check whether there are cholecystitis, gallstones or digestive tract diseases in stomatology, gastroenterology and hepatobiliary department. If there is no obvious visceral disease, common cold and dysfunction, you can take traditional Chinese medicine decoction or Chinese patent medicine under the prescription of a doctor.

Bitter mouth if the situation is serious, please seek medical advice in time.

4. The cause of bitterness

1, normal physiological phenomenon

Healthy people will have a slight bitter taste in their mouths after waking up at night or early in the morning. This symptom generally does not last for a long time, which is a normal physiological phenomenon.

2. Oral diseases

Diseases in the oral cavity can often directly lead to dry mouth and bitter taste, such as dental caries, oral ulcers and gingivitis. These diseases will destroy the oral environment and make the oral cavity unclean and bitter.

3. Gastrointestinal diseases

When everyone's gastrointestinal digestive function is not good, there may be bitterness. Chinese medicine believes that "all diseases must be outside." Spleen opening to the mouth is closely related to taste. If the spleen and stomach are too hot, there may be bitter taste and dry mouth.

4. Poor gallbladder function

The accumulation of pathogenic heat leads to bile overflowing in the mouth, which is often manifested as bitter taste and dry throat. Lingshu: "People with gallbladder disease are prone to excessive breathing and bitter taste." In other words, bitterness is closely related to gallbladder diseases, and poor gallbladder function and acute inflammation of liver and gallbladder may cause bitterness.