Tongue can not only make us taste the ups and downs, but also hide the health code. When you go to see a Chinese doctor, the doctor often asks you to stick out your tongue. Traditional Chinese medicine helps to diagnose diseases by changing the color and shape of the tongue, which is the tongue diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine. What's wrong with the five internal organs? Sometimes the tongue knows before you do.
What are the contents of tongue diagnosis?
"Tongue diagnosis is an important part of" Wang "in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis also needs to stick out the tongue. First of all, the intensity of light has a great influence on the color of tongue images. When observing, it is best to choose a place with sufficient natural light during the day; The tongue should stick out naturally, not too hard, which will make the tongue body compact and lose its normal posture and color. So open your mouth first, then stretch your tongue flat and relax, not for too long. " Deng Zihui, the attending physician of the Endocrinology Department of Yinchuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, told the reporter.
If the tongue is ruddy, thin but not slippery or dry, it is a "disease-free tongue". But when the body is unhealthy, the symptoms that appear through the tongue are different. Generally speaking, TCM tongue diagnosis will look at the vein of tongue body, tongue coating and tongue base.
Map tongue: mostly related to insufficient stomach qi.
"Doctor, look at my map tongue. Do you need treatment? " In Chinese medicine clinics, you will always hear such questions every three to five times.
Map tongue, named for its round, oval or irregular red smooth area on the back, has a clear white border around it and looks like a map. Most patients with "map tongue" have no conscious symptoms. If the tongue area is large, they may be sensitive to spicy and sour food, and may have a slight burning or itching sensation.
"Chinese medicine calls the map tongue' flower peeling', which is related to the lack of stomach qi and is a manifestation of insufficient stomach yin. Some people who map their tongues are often accompanied by symptoms of stomach discomfort such as dull pain, retching, loss of appetite and noisy stomachache. " Deng Zihui introduced.
If there is a picture tongue, but there is no other performance, don't worry, and don't blindly take medicine according to online opinions. You can consult the doctors of stomatology and traditional Chinese medicine first to see if you need treatment.
Cleft tongue: It may be damp-heat or blood deficiency.
There is a crack on the tongue, which is called cracked tongue in Chinese medicine. When there is a cracked tongue, we can see how many cracks with different shades and shapes are on the tongue surface through the mirror.
Deng Zihui analyzed, "In addition to congenital physiological reasons, cleft tongue often suggests that there is damp heat or blood deficiency in the body. In addition, people with spleen deficiency and dampness stagnation often have dry tongue. If the tongue is red and accompanied by cracks, it means that the internal heat is heavy; If the tongue is light and accompanied by cracks, it means that the qi and blood are deficient and the tongue body cannot be nourished. "
Tongue and teeth: mostly phlegm-dampness constitution.
Some obese people, when their tongues stick out, often see that their tongues are very fat and there are traces of being oppressed by teeth around them. This is called a tongue with teeth, and most of these people are phlegm-dampness type.
"This is because when the body is wet, spleen deficiency and spleen deficiency aggravate the wet weight, and the two affect each other. Spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Spleen deficiency leads to deficiency of qi and blood biochemistry. If you can't nourish your tongue, it will look fat and pale. People who usually eat irregularly, smoke and drink, and like to eat fat and sweet are mostly phlegm and wet, which is prone to whitening teeth. " Deng Zihui further explained.
Red tongue: it may be yin deficiency and internal heat.
A healthy person's tongue should be reddish. If the tongue is too red, be sure to pay attention! Moreover, different positions of the red tongue may reflect different problems.
For example, the redness of the tip of the tongue indicates that the heart fire is relatively strong, often accompanied by symptoms such as irritability, yellow urine and insomnia. Bright red tongue color may indicate yin deficiency and internal heat; Redness on both sides of the tongue may indicate that the liver meridian is hot, and such people are often accompanied by symptoms such as bitter mouth, headache and dizziness.
If the tongue color is too light or too white, it means that there is coldness or deficiency of qi and blood in the body. It is recommended to drink Danggui Stewed Chicken Soup and Jujube Black Chicken Soup to tonify qi and blood.
Color of tongue coating: thin white coating is the healthiest
Healthy tongue coating is thin white coating, just like a light snow has just fallen, and the snow falls evenly and thinly on the road.
"If the body is wet and evil, the tongue coating is thick and sticky, like goose feather snow; If the tongue coating is thick and the color is yellow and greasy, it means that the dampness in the body has become hot. At this time, it is necessary to clear away heat, spleen and dampness through diet and exercise. "
"We usually refer to the tongue without tongue coating on the whole tongue body as mirror tongue. Most people with this tongue are yin deficiency and internal heat, which is very serious. " Deng Zihui said.
Attention should also be paid to abnormal tongue state.
Besides observing the coating and color of the tongue, we should also observe the state of the tongue, that is, the dynamics of the tongue. The tongue is flexible, neither crooked nor oblique, which represents health.
If the tongue is a little hard, such as biting your tongue often when eating, slurring your speech, etc. Or the tongue is skewed to both sides when sticking out, which may be a precursor of stroke, especially for the "three highs" people, so they should go to the hospital for examination in time.
If the tongue shakes uncontrollably at rest, it will become more serious when nervous, accompanied by drooling, which indicates that it may be Parkinson's disease.
The tongue should also be maintained.
The performance of the tongue can help us find some health problems. If you don't pay attention to maintenance, this health "barometer" will be insensitive.
Many people brush their teeth every day, but ignore their tongues. In fact, tongue coating is a layer of dander composed of exfoliated epithelial cells, oozing white blood cells, food residues, bacteria and saliva, which also needs to be cleaned up. It is recommended to brush your tongue twice a week, from the base of your tongue to the tip of your tongue in one direction, keep it gentle and try not to swallow.
Reporter Liu Wei