Symptoms of dry mouth are mostly internal heat, and dry mouth at night may be characterized by dampness-heat and deficiency-heat.

I can't say that food therapy doesn't work, but it has to be right. Because dry mouth is only a symptom, this symptom should not be ignored. It has to be dialectized in relation to your own health and the other symptoms that manifest themselves. Internal heat dry mouth, also divided into solid heat, deficiency heat, damp heat and so on.

real heat

In addition to dry mouth, it also manifests as thirst, a feeling of dryness and heat, irritability, dry stools, yellowish urine, and frequent facial flushing. This is mainly caused by solid heat resulting in fluid damage. If your dry mouth is accompanied by a preference for cold foods and a red tongue, then it is likely to be caused by an exuberant stomach fire. Dry mouth can also be caused by wind-heat.

If you belong to the above situation, it is suitable to drink more warm boiled water can be well relieved. Normally, you can eat some pears, apples and other foods that contain more water, and you can also eat some cool foods, such as duck, silver fungus, bitter melon, cucumber, watermelon, mung beans (sprouts) and so on.

If you just have dry mouth and do not have any of the other symptoms mentioned above, then it could also be deficiency heat or dampness heat.

Deficiency Heat and Damp Heat

Both can also present with dry mouth, but neither has obvious thirst symptoms. With deficiency heat, there are often symptoms such as night sweats, dry and sore throat, and tiredness and weakness. Damp Heat also manifests as dry mouth without thirst, mostly in digestion, with sticky and unpleasant stools, bitter mouth and bad breath, nausea and anorexia.

If it is a deficiency heat, you can focus on tonifying the deficiency to remove the heat, with nourishing yin and fire-reducing ingredients can be relieved, do not need to tonic, and can not be a big tonic. You can choose Chinese wolfberry, yam, Colla Corii Asini, Codonopsis pilosula, silver fungus, avocado and other medicinal mild ingredients can be.

If it is dampness and heat, you can focus on removing dampness and heat, you can use red beans, barley and other porridge to eat, you can use winter melon with ginger, cinnamon, etc. to remove dampness and dispel cold. If the dampness and heat is more serious, you can use some Poria, Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Ailanthus and other traditional Chinese medicines.

In western medicine, this is not a disease, but the above are unpleasant symptoms, and it is still a good choice to regulate them with Chinese medicine dietary therapy. Western medicine will consider the causes of dry mouth from the perspective of disease.

Dry mouth caused by disease

More typically a precursor to diabetes, there are also symptoms of dry mouth and thirst.

Anemia can cause dry mouth, which is actually similar to dry mouth caused by deficiency heat in Chinese medicine, and anemia itself is categorized as qi and blood deficiency in Chinese medicine.

Oral diseases and candida infections can also cause dry mouth.

Being on certain medications, such as atropine can cause intense dry mouth, as well as some high blood pressure medications and anti-allergy medications. If there is obvious discomfort in the body, it is important to clarify the cause of the disease and then treat it.

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When it comes to dry mouth, many people think, isn't that normal? When you have a dry mouth, doesn't that mean your body is dehydrated and that's why your mouth feels dry. While this is true, it is not the only factor that can cause dry mouth. Dry mouth can occur when you have diabetes or dryness. What dietary supplements should you take to relieve dry mouth?

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According to Chinese medicine, eating the right food can not only provide nutrients for the body, but also for the body to cure. Especially with some Chinese medicinal herbs cooked into a dish to eat, the effect of the cure will be better yo. Currently in winter, the dry weather makes people feel dry mouth abnormal, originally have a dry mouth problem, naturally more difficult. Don't worry, it is recommended to try these recipes to help you improve dry mouth.

1, Lily honey sweet porridge

Go to the supermarket to buy about 100 grams of round-grained rice, and then to remember to buy 30 grams of lily, if you go to the supermarket does not sell lily, you can go to the pharmacy to buy. Will buy good lily into the water soak for a while, wait for it to soak soft and then carefully wash a few times, after washing into the pot. After the round-grained rice washed a few times also into the pot, and then add some water into the fire boil cooked rotten can be. Note that in the process of boiling must watch the fire, and always stir, or it is easy to stick to the pot. After cooking, let it cool for a while. When the temperature of the porridge becomes warm, put some honey into it, and remember to stir well.

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Lily is able to calm the spirit and nourish the mind, so that the dry fire in the body will not be so strong. If consumed with honey, it also helps to nourish yin, replenish yin for the body and make up for the loss of fluid in the body, thus providing relief from dry mouth.

II. Fishweed Sweetener

You should buy about 40 grams of fritillary (note that it should be dry) in advance, which is usually available in supermarkets and pharmacies. In addition, it is necessary to prepare a snow pear and the right amount of rock sugar. Wash the pear, and then remove the core, cut into large pieces into a pot, and then add water and fire to simmer for a few minutes. Wait until the pear becomes soft, will wash the fish and ice sugar (recommended to take a small piece of a little bit, easier to melt) into the pear water, and then adjusted to high heat will pear water boil, boil and then boil two minutes you can turn off the fire. Fishweed this kind of Chinese medicine and pear, rock sugar with, stewed out of the sugar water to drink to help the body nourishing Yin and can also clear heat. For people who often have a dry mouth, you may want to drink it.

Three, lily almond loquat porridge
Need 12 grams of almonds, 15 grams of lily, 20 grams of loquat fruit, 50 grams of glutinous rice, a small amount of honey, the glutinous rice, almonds and lily all washed, peptide fire boil to a small fire, and then cut into pieces of pear and loquat into the porridge inside, and finally add ice honey stirred evenly, this method has the effect of the thirst of the body, you can relieve the dry mouth.

Four, ginseng and buttermilk porridge
Need two grams of American ginseng, 150 milligrams of buttermilk, 50 grams of rice, the right amount of rock sugar, American ginseng ground into a fine powder added to the rice in the pot to cook, and then put the buttermilk, American ginseng - straight to the porridge to cook, with rock sugar to taste, this method has the effect of the thirst, gas yin.

Fifth, raw rhubarb and dendrobium porridge
Need 15 grams of dendrobium, 30 grams of dendrobium, 50 grams of rice, the right amount of rock sugar, the dendrobium, dendrobium, all in the water decoction to take the juice added to the rice to cook into a porridge, and finally put into the sugar to adjust, this method has the effect of nourishing yin to promote the body fluid, clearing heat and cooling blood.

Of course, in addition to dietary therapy can improve the problem of dry mouth, there are other ways, if you feel that dietary therapy is too much trouble, it is recommended that you can try these tricks, but also to help you drive away dry mouth:

1. Chewing sugar-free gum

Anyone who has chewed gum has experienced that a large amount of saliva is produced in the mouth during the chewing process. For those who have dry mouth, the dry mouth can be relieved if there is a large amount of saliva produced in the mouth. Therefore, it is recommended that this category can be more chewing gum, but be careful to choose sugar-free gum, or sugar to eat too much if not good for the teeth yo.

2, extorting water

Generally people think of drinking water when they have dry mouth. This method is right, but also the most direct method to relieve dry mouth. Here to remind everyone to drink water slowly, small mouth, in order to slowly moisturize the mouth, relieve dry mouth. If it is a brain to drink, water in the mouth over again, immediately swallowed into the abdomen, so then, to relieve the effect of dry mouth is very little.

Some people experience dry mouth most of the time when they go to bed, and have to get up and have a drink of water before they can go back to sleep, or else their mouth is too dry to sleep. Why does this happen?

This may be related to the way of sleeping, some people sleep with their mouths open to breathe, with the evaporation of water from the mouth, the oral mucosa is gradually dehydrated, and eventually dry mouth. In this case, we should change the original way of sleeping, try to breathe through the nose, reduce the evaporation of water from the oral mucosa, and gradually change this situation.

Another is the need for medication to regulate it. Why is there dry mouth at night? Because at night the yang qi begins to return to the body in the internal organs, in the body surface of the yang qi gradually reduced, the body of the yang qi gradually increased. Yang qi can bring fluid to the mouth, if the yang qi is insufficient, the night and back to the body, the transportation of water and liquid yang qi is insufficient, naturally dry mouth will occur. Dry mouth caused by insufficient yang qi is dry but unwilling to drink water because there is no shortage of water in the body.

If a person has a deficiency of yin, the night is yin points in charge, a deficiency of yin is the lack of nourishing substances, the lack of the mouth, throat, nose can not be nourished, you will feel dry. This dry mouth, like to drink water, drink a little cold water. And accompanied by the heart of the hands and feet fever, upset and insomnia. It is necessary to eat some herbs that nourish yin, like lily of the valley and yuzhu that can nourish stomach yin.

There is also a kind of blood stasis, blood stasis is the mobility of small or even stagnant blood, blood stasis affects the operation of the blood, which is equivalent to the deficiency of yin, blood stasis occurs at night thirst, this kind of thirst is called "but want to gargle water, do not want to swallow", that is, the mouth would like to hold a little bit of water, but just do not want to swallow. This kind of thirst is not useful to simply replenish water, but to activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, the blood flow increases, naturally, can better nourish the human body.

This symptom is a symptom of yin deficiency and dryness, can be a variety of consumptive diseases, as well as inflammation and fire, as well as drinking less water caused by a phenomenon, as well as some like gastritis and oral ulcers can cause this phenomenon, so the symptoms are the same, the etiology is not the same, you need to symptomatic examination and treatment, you can know what is the case, you can generally use some of the nourishing yin and zhengjin medicines to The symptoms can be treated with medicines that nourish the yin and promote the production of fluids.

For example, you can eat some wolfberry chrysanthemum dihuang pill, six flavors of dihuang pill these can be, and then food can eat some silver ear red date soup, you can also use some of the like clearing the fire and promote fluids, such as figs, these soak to drink, can achieve the effect of treatment, and then symptomatic examination of the cause of the elimination of the cause of the disease can be, that is to say, the symptoms of the use of these medicines can be eliminated, but the cause of the symptoms of the causes of the disease need to be identified and then treated.

For example, there are some mouth ulcers mouth ulcers should be anti-inflammatory supplement vitamins, eliminating these ulcers will be good. Different places of inflammation targeted treatment, so as to find the cause of the disease to cure the cause, you can achieve the effect of treatment. Food therapy on eating some light sparse vegetable soup can be.

Dry mouth refers to the lack of saliva in the mouth caused by a symptom, generally speaking, eat something too salty, hot weather, sweating more drink less water, can cause dry mouth, for these factors lead to dry mouth, drink more water can be solved.

However, if you exclude the above factors, or always have a dry mouth and bitter symptoms, then, we must pay attention to the dry mouth may be just the body of the five viscera and six bowels of the problem caused by the signs.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes thatThe causes of dry mouth are mostly related to Yin deficiency and internal heat, external wind-heat, internal dampness and heat, and stomach fire.

(1) Yin deficiency and internal heat:

Internal heat can be triggered by any cause that depletes the body's yin and fluids. Factors such as prolonged illness, strenuous exercise, late nights and other factors can cause the body's yin and yang imbalance, a state of yin deficiency, resulting in internal heat.

Common symptoms of Yin deficiency and internal heat include dry mouth and tongue, worse at night, insomnia, dizziness, heat in the hands and feet, night sweating, hot flashes in the afternoon, redness in the cheekbones, dry and red tongue, and fine pulse.

Or have a dry mouth and drink, urinate more, waist and knee soreness and weakness, often accompanied by heartburn and dizziness, red tongue with thin coating, pulse is mostly belong to the kidney yin deficiency type.

(2) External wind-heat:

Mainly wind-heat into the body, the loss of fluid, thus causing the performance of dry mouth and tongue. For example, patients with wind-heat colds often drink a lot of water but still feel dry mouth and tongue, and may be accompanied by fever, fear of wind symptoms.

(3) Damp-heat internalization:

Mainly for the spleen deficiency and dampness, the spleen is located in the human body in the middle of the jiao, with transport, ascending clear function, if the spleen and stomach weak, or due to dietary disorders, often eat fat, sweet, thick and greasy, emotional disorders, tiredness, resulting in the spleen function of the spleen, the spleen is not healthy, can not ascending clear, the dampness of the evil within the birth of the Yang qi, the Jin can not be up to, thus leading to the dry mouth, the mouth is sticky and greasy. People in this category often have yellow and greasy tongue coating. Dampness and heat within the dry mouth, the core of the treatment is to strengthen the spleen and dampness, and due to the dampness is easy to heat, many times will be supplemented with dry dampness and heat products.

(4) Stomach fire

If you don't pay attention to your diet, such as overeating cold, fatty, sweet and dry food, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach, accumulated heat within, the dryness and injury to the fluid, stomach fire inflammation, thus causing the symptoms of dry mouth, the type of people in addition to the symptoms of dry mouth, usually accompanied by a liking for cold drinks, irritability, dry stools, yellow and red urine, red face, tongue red and other manifestations.

In terms of treatment, holistic diagnosis and conditioning is needed. Dry mouth caused by Yin deficiency and internal heat is mainly regulated by nourishing Yin and lowering fire. Dampness and internal heat are mainly regulated by strengthening the spleen, dispelling dampness and clearing heat, and stomach heat is needed to clear stomach heat.

Of course, the actual conditioning also need to identify the influence of concurrent evidence type or other factors. For example, if there are symptoms of bitter mouth, it may also be related to the liver and gallbladder fire, bile gas upward reversal, "Su Wen - Qi Disease Theory" said: "There is a disease of bitter mouth, ...... the name of the disease is called gallbladder disease, ...... this person, a number of conspiracy to think not to decide, so the bile is weak and gas upward overflowing , and the mouth for the bitter." For this type of situation, generally need to clear the liver and gallbladder dampness and heat.

Therefore, if the mouth is always dry at night, excluding factors such as the weather, drinking little water, eating too salty, etc., it is recommended to identify and regulate.

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Figure out the cause of your dry mouth before you try to fix it.

Physiologic dry mouth

More commonly, dry mouth can occur when you drink too little water, or when you eat too salty or a lot of dry food, and also when you don't hydrate in time after exercise. In this case, it is necessary to drink more water to replenish the body's insufficient water.

However, for the elderly, because of the degeneration of various functions, fluid-secreting glands atrophy, will be due to the reduction of salivary secretion and varying degrees of dry mouth, pay attention to timely supplementation of water, eat more moisturizing and nourishing food and fruits, such as honey water, Sydney, grapes, etc., not only to relieve dry mouth, but also to prevent constipation.

Disease-induced dry mouth, drinking alone is effective

　　Colds: dry mouth caused by viral infections;

　　High fever, diarrhea, open mouth breathing, etc. are prone to dry mouth caused by loss of water from the body;

　　Psychological problems: such as chronic anxiety, depression, and insomnia can also lead to manifestations such as bitter and dry mouth;

　　Diabetic patients: Dry mouth is caused by high blood glucose causing an increase in plasma osmolality and tissue dehydration;

　　Prolonged use of blood pressure lowering medications can also cause medicated dry mouth;

　　Dry mouth in systemic diseases, such as dry eye in patients with desiccation syndrome because the body's immune abnormality destroys the structure of the salivary glands and lacrimal glands

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　　It is difficult for these people to solve the problem of dry mouth by drinking water alone.

　　If dry mouth cannot be relieved for a short period of time, especially if the symptoms are more than three months old, you should go to the hospital for a thorough examination.

Dry mouth and thirst in the middle of the night is one of the most common symptoms of warm weather disease

　　With the advent of winter, the use of heating facilities such as air conditioners and heaters, closed doors and windows, poor air circulation, excessive dryness of the environment, and large temperature differences between indoors and outdoors, it is easy to produce symptoms such as discomfort in the pharynx, fatigue, dizziness, and dry mouth.

　　Therefore, indoor temperature and humidity should be controlled and properly ventilated. During the heating period, you should try to drink as much boiled water as possible, eat more fresh vegetables especially those rich in vitamins, such as carrots, cabbage, etc., and eat more fruits with sufficient water and containing many vitamins, such as pomelo, oranges and apples. Eat less spicy and stimulating food, choose some warm food, such as sesame, radish, tofu, etc., do not eat or eat less spicy food, do not drink or drink less alcohol.

Why is that?

Bitter mouth, metallic taste, etc., in addition to the above dangers, may also be a sign of physical disease! Not only oral problems, many systemic diseases can also lead to a bitter mouth, the causes are very complex and diverse. Therefore, if you go to the doctor, be prepared to run a lot of departments!

Some of the more common causes of a bitter mouth may be these:

➊ Smoking

In addition to the bad taste of cigarettes, the ingredients in tobacco can irritate the taste buds for a long time and may bring about false sensations.

➋ Dry mouth or generalized dehydration

Basically everyone has a dry mouth in the morning and a bad taste in their mouth, which often clears up after brushing their teeth and drinking water. However, some people feel that their mouths are always bitter because of the chronic dryness of the mouth.

➌ Nerve damage

The sensations of the tongue have to travel through the nerves to the brain for us to know what the flavor is. A traumatic injury to the head, or prolonged exposure to substances that are toxic to the nerves, or even dementia, which injures the nerves or the brain, can result in a faulty sense of flavor.

➍ Drug effects

Side effects of many medications may cause a bitter taste in the mouth, commonly such as rifampicin (used to treat tuberculosis), captopril (a blood pressure medication), lithium (used in the treatment of many psychiatric disorders), or oncology chemotherapeutic drugs.

➎ Vitamin or micronutrient deficiencies

A deficiency of vitamin B12 or zinc may cause a bitter mouth.

➏ Oral diseases

In addition to causing toothache and periodontitis, poor oral hygiene may also bring about unpleasant tastes such as bad breath and bitterness. Diseases of the oral mucosa such as "burning mouth syndrome" may also cause problems with the mouth's perception of flavors.

➐ Other systemic diseases or health problems

Diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, some cancers, and many other illnesses may cause an abnormal taste in the mouth or problems with the sense of taste. Psychiatric factors such as anxiety and depression may also cause symptoms of a bitter mouth.

Relieve and prevent bitter mouth by starting with these

Now that you know the cause, it is helpful to live a life where you are advised to do these things!

➊ Attention to oral hygiene

Go to the dentist, treat your periodontal disease, get your teeth cleaned regularly, and learn the proper way to brush your teeth. Good teeth are the only way to have a good appetite. If you feel that your mouth is dry for a long time, you need to find out the cause of the problem.

➋ Smoking cessation

The benefits of quitting smoking definitely go beyond just fresh breath. Quitting smoking also reduces the risk of many types of cancers, including lung and oral cancers, as well as easing the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Come on, put that cigarette out of your hand!

➌ Moderate vitamin and micronutrient supplementation

Eat more coarse grains, vegetables, fruits, moderate amount of meat, eggs, dairy, balanced nutrition, in most cases can meet the needs of vitamins and trace elements.

If you are really deficient, you can supplement with multinutrient tablets, but you need to make sure that the dosage is right - it's easy to have problems with too many micronutrient supplements.

Of course, there are many other mouth bitternesses that are the result of disease, so actively controlling and treating these diseases is key, as well as being a one-two punch.

LifeWay Public Health believes that dry mouth at night may have more to do with fire, the specific organs are generally a little heart fire and liver and gallbladder fire for the most part.

If there is no insomnia or excessive dreaming, it is more likely that the liver and gallbladder are on fire.

Dietary therapy is recommended to use some chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea, tea or boiled water to drink can be. Then eat some bitter melon, lotus heart and so on have a certain role in removing liver fire.

Apples, pears, daikon radish, water chestnuts, etc. will also work.

My method is to remember to keep your mouth closed when you sleep, it will be much better, sleeping with your mouth open will dry you out the more you inhale.

According to your description of the situation, the consideration should be poor body resistance, allergic rhinitis caused by the symptoms. Suggest that you can take oral paracetamol, nasal abundance of Shu oral solution, cold and heat particles, usually pay attention to diet, do not eat spicy stimulating food, as well as cold and greasy food, light diet, drink more water, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as high protein food, increase the body's resistance, pay attention to warmth, so as to avoid getting cold.