Chinese medicine pays attention to "looking, listening, asking and cutting", and one of the four diagnoses is very important. Ordinary people often look at tongue coating, so they can know the physical condition of themselves and their families at the first time.
Tongue diagnosis is the most intuitive of the four diagnoses in traditional Chinese medicine, and tongue coating can reflect people's physical state.
By observing your tongue coating, you can know whether you are healthy and what kind of physique you are, know your situation at any time, adjust it at any time, and better control your health in your own hands.
In fact, everyone can learn the knowledge of tongue diagnosis because it is intuitive. After mastering it, you can apply it to your life. Through tongue diagnosis, you can make a preliminary self-examination and analyze the physique of yourself and your family.
Mainly from these three aspects: the thickness of tongue coating, the size of tongue body and the dryness of tongue body.
By looking at the tongue picture, we can know whether a person has dampness, blood stasis and qi deficiency. Is there phlegm dampness?
Matters needing attention in tongue diagnosis
Don't look at your tongue picture when you get up, don't look at it for half an hour after meals, don't look at it under colored lights, and don't look at your tongue picture when you eat colored food.
Normal tongue coating
Let's first look at what a healthy tongue picture looks like, so that we can compare it with an unhealthy tongue picture.
Basic healthy tongue picture: red tongue with thin white coating.
Let's take a look at several common tongue images of qi deficiency constitution:
Tooth marks on the edge
Qi deficiency and dampness
Most people with qi deficiency will have tooth marks on their tongues.
A normal person's tongue should not have tooth marks, so what causes tooth marks?
Mainly greedy for cold or feeling cold outside; Secondly, the amount of exercise is small.
The former is easy to damage spleen yang, while the latter cannot generate yang in the body. Over time, there is more and more moisture in the body, forming a tongue, and the moisture in the human body with qi deficiency is heavy.
Full tongue coating
Heavy moisture in the body
The normal tongue coating should expose the tongue substance, but the tongue coating in the picture covers the whole tongue, indicating that the humidity in this human body is very heavy, and the thicker the tongue coating, the heavier the humidity.
When the tongue coating is thin, it is easier to discharge the moisture in the body. If the tongue coating is thick, it is more difficult to get rid of moisture.
Red spots on tongue surface
There is damp heat in the body
In this picture, the mushroom nipple on the tongue is large, and the red spots are concentrated from the tip of the tongue to the middle of the tongue. It is a tongue picture of damp heat in the body, which is not only heavy in moisture but also hot in the body.
The tongue is red, with thick fur, some yellow thick fur, red spots on the tongue surface, red tip of the tongue and body heat.
Many men who like to drink, smoke and eat fat meat often see this kind of tongue map.
Someone said, "Why is there a crack in my tongue?" This is also a sign of spleen and stomach weakness and qi deficiency.
Intermediate crack
Spleen and stomach qi deficiency
Fat tongue
Children are more common.
Many children often see this kind of tongue picture in clinic. The tongue is thick, occupying the whole mouth, and the tongue coating is thin and white, or thick.
Children with this tongue often prefer meat to vegetables, often catch a cold and have rhinitis.
Such children have weak lungs and spleen, low resistance and are prone to catch a cold.
The above are common tongue images of qi deficiency constitution.
Qi deficiency constitution should be paid attention to.
People with qi deficiency and dampness feel sleepy, heavy, listless and bored every day. They also love to sleep and sweat easily. This is because the qi of middle energizer is blocked and the body is full of moisture.
When a person is full of spleen deficiency and dampness, he should first get rid of dampness. After the dampness is removed, he should also strengthen the spleen and stomach and adjust his function.
What should people with qi deficiency pay attention to?
People with qi deficiency must not be greedy for cold, especially in summer. Try not to eat sorbet, cold drink and cold beer, which will hurt the spleen and stomach yang.
People with poor spleen and stomach should not eat cold fruits in the morning, such as watermelons and grapes. The yang in the human body just begins to grow in the morning, and it is the most abundant at noon. Therefore, the morning sun needs our care.
You can get up every morning to exercise and stimulate the yang in your body.
People with blood deficiency constitution are mostly women, because women have more chances to lose blood in their lives.
People with blood deficiency will be dizzy and their eyes will be black when they stand up;
It is also prone to insomnia, dreaminess, fatigue and memory loss.
People who love to worry and worry too much will easily consume sad blood.
Show a typical tongue picture of blood deficiency.
The tongue color is very light, the tongue coating is very light, and there are teeth marks on both sides of the tongue.
Self-doubling diet, spleen and stomach injury.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry, that is to say, after the spleen and stomach absorb the nutrition in food, blood is produced.
There are many people with bad spleen and stomach now. Most of the problems of the spleen and stomach are due to overeating, that is, eating too well.
Huangdi Neijing says: Double your diet will hurt your spleen and stomach. If you eat more than your spleen and stomach can transport, the extra food can't be transported. If overloaded, the spleen and stomach will definitely be injured. You must pay attention to your diet at ordinary times.
Tongue diagnosis is an important and intuitive method to identify physique. If you can master some basic knowledge of tongue diagnosis, you will have a further understanding of your physical condition, adjust your body more pertinently, and protect the health of yourself and your family.
Produced by Jilin Daily
Planning: Jiang
Author: Peng Huijuan