If you can exercise your tongue regularly, you can strengthen the functions of various parts of the internal organs, help digest and absorb food, and keep fit.
According to the above different tongue images, combined with other diagnostic methods such as smell, questioning and pulse-taking, TCM can make comprehensive analysis and treat according to syndrome differentiation.
1, with thick tongue coating and breath.
If a person has a thick tongue coating and breath all the year round, it generally means that there is something wrong with the stomach.
If there are no other uncomfortable feelings at present, you can start with diet and daily life. Keep a regular life and feel comfortable and happy.
In addition, you can eat more digestible food and eat more fruits and vegetables. Eat less greasy and fried food, and it is best not to drink or smoke.
I believe that after a period of nursed back to health, abnormal tongue coating and breath are expected to heal themselves.
2, the tongue coating is black and sticky.
If the tongue coating is black or sticky, the tip of the tongue is normal and reddish, and there is no other obvious discomfort, it may also belong to the phenomenon of "staining".
Consider that the patient may have eaten some easily colored food or taken some drugs. For example, if you take "Livzondole", in this case, black hair may appear and the stool will be black.
There are also antibiotics, and sometimes black moss may appear. This situation is not morbid, so you need not be nervous.
However, if you are a patient with serious stomach trouble, you should be vigilant when observing black moss.
If the tip of the tongue is crimson or even blue, it means that the condition is getting worse. It is recommended to go to the hospital in time.
3. Stripping of tongue coating
Some people have irregular "map-like" changes on their tongues, some have thin tongue coating and some have smooth tongue coating, which is called "map tongue".
Patients with this tongue picture, if they don't feel any discomfort, are mostly physiological changes and don't need treatment.
If you suffer from stomach trouble or other chronic diseases for a long time, you have never seen such a tongue picture before, and suddenly a "map tongue" appears, then this is mostly a manifestation of yin deficiency.
This kind of patients can drink American ginseng tea while treating the primary disease, which can promote their health.
4. There is a crack in the tongue
There are also many "cracks" on the tongue surface, and most of them have no tongue coating, which is called "cracked tongue".
If there is no discomfort, it is also physiological, and this does not need treatment.
However, if there is a cleft tongue, red tongue without coating and discomfort after a serious illness, which belongs to yin deficiency, it needs to be treated with drugs.
5. There are teeth marks on the tongue.
Some people have large bodies, fat tongues, teeth marks on the edge of the tongue, and thin and white tongue coating.
If the body has no obvious discomfort, it is too fat. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, "Fat people are full of phlegm and dampness", and the spleen and stomach transport function of fat people is relatively insufficient, and the digestion and absorption of food are also prone to obstacles.
Then, these people should eat less greasy and indigestible food, eat more vegetables and fruits and light food, and exercise properly.
If the tongue coating is thick and greasy, there are teeth marks on the edge of the tongue, you don't think about diet, abdominal distension is full, and loose stool is sparse.
Then this kind of phlegm is too much, and such patients should also cooperate with drug treatment while eating light and digestible food.
6, red tongue, thick fur, constipation
Some people don't understand the stool for a few days. Bad breath, thick tongue coating, sharp red tongue edge and yellow urine belong to stomach fire.
The stomach is full of fiery heat, and turbid gas comes up to fumigate the mouth and tongue, so there will be bad breath, yellow tongue coating, heat injury to body fluid and intestinal disharmony, so there will be dry stool.
At this time, you can take rhubarb, coptis root, scutellaria root, gardenia and other traditional Chinese medicines for clearing away heat and purging fire.
In diet, avoid alcohol and spicy food, such as pepper and mutton. Usually eat more fruits and vegetables and light food, and drink more water.