The function of the tongue

1, taste

Tongue has the sense of taste and can recognize the ups and downs of food.

Step 2 help chew

The tongue also has the function of helping to chew food, and doctors in the past can also identify the patient's condition through the tongue.

Step 3 stir the food

Tongue also has the function of stirring food and conveying food. Without a tongue, people have no fun eating any food.

4, help pronunciation

Tongue also contributes to the function of pronunciation and is an important organ of human language. Without it, people can't pronounce.

Extended data:

The embodiment of health on the tongue;

1, from the tongue picture to see the disease

The tongue is not soft, it is inconvenient to flex and stretch, and it can't even rotate. Most of them belong to the late stage of excess heat damaging yin.

2. See a doctor from a fat and thin tongue.

Fat tongue with tooth marks on the edge of the tongue is mostly related to water-dampness retention, which usually belongs to spleen deficiency or kidney-yang deficiency. Spleen deficiency mostly reflects digestive system diseases, poor gastrointestinal peristalsis and poor absorption.

3. See the disease from the tip of the tongue

Sometimes you can see that the tip of the tongue and the nipple of the tongue are proliferating, hypertrophy and protruding like thorns, which are caused by damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder or heart-qi filling.

People's Network-Chinese medicine teaches you how to see diseases from your tongue.