Hello! Chinese medicine is a magical art, the wisdom of the ancients was good at discovering big problems from the smallest details, and tongue coating was the basis of the ancients' prescriptions.

One of the important means of diagnosis in Chinese medicine is diagnosis by looking, "looking and knowing is called God", the status of diagnosis by looking is very high, and one of the important contents of diagnosis by looking is to look at the tongue, the changes in the tongue can reflect the changes in the function of the internal organs of the whole body.

Chinese medicine believes that "the tongue is the seedling of the heart", and changes in the tongue first reflect changes in the heart. The changes in the tongue first reflect the changes in the heart. Any lesions in the heart can be reflected from the tongue. For example, if the heart is on fire, the tongue will be red, and the tongue will be eroded. If the blood of the heart is stagnant, the tongue will be purple and dark or have petechiae. If the heart and spirit are out of order, the tongue will be strong and outspoken, and there will be speech disorders.

However, changes in the tongue do not only reflect changes in the heart, but the functions of other organs and tissues can be reflected in the changes in the tongue, but there are many aspects of the tongue, so we will only introduce some simple and practical aspects here.

First of all, look at the size of the tongue body to see that the normal tongue body in the mouth is in the right proportion. If the tongue is thin and small, at the same time the tip of the tongue is red, generally this kind of person is on the side of the heart fire, easy to anxiety and tension, easy mouth ulcers, easy to insomnia, dreamy. If the tongue is thin and small, the tongue color is light, it is the performance of blood deficiency, blood deficiency can not be moistened. Tongue body fat, some people have teeth marks, that is the performance of Yang Qi deficiency, or water dampness stagnation. This kind of people mostly have heart or spleen or kidney yang deficiency, at the same time will lead to the accumulation of water-dampness, or body bias water-dampness, and over time affect the heart, spleen and kidney yang function.

In addition, but also look at the tongue, it is generally believed that the yellow tongue moss more heat, tongue moss greasy more water dampness, tongue moss white in the water slippery more cold or cold dampness, tongue moss burnt black more than warm poisonous evil, tongue moss yellow thick and greasy or scale greasy cracks more than food or stools dry and difficult to solve, less moss or no moss, it shows that the Yin Yin Yin deficiency and fluid loss.

It is also important to look at the degree of moisturization of the tongue, normal people's tongue is moist and moderate, if the tongue is dry and without fluid, it means that there is warmth and heat disease, mostly seen in warm and hot nature of the disease. If the tongue is too watery and slippery, salivating, especially the elderly, drooling from time to time, this means that their organs are not enough yang, can not be transformed into water to drink.

Finally, it is also important to look at the degree of flexibility of the tongue movement. If the tongue movement is flexible, it means that the body is healthy, and a skillful tongue is a very healthy state. If the tongue is not flexible, stuttering or talking, eating when biting the tongue, indicating that the human heart and liver function is not sound, here the heart and liver, are Chinese medicine functional nature of the heart and liver, not entirely anatomical parts of the heart and liver, do not get confused Oh. If the tongue sticks out to the side, it is a stroke, cerebrovascular disease, should immediately seek medical attention, do not delay.

The above is a simple introduction to the tongue, we have a general understanding, but the tongue is not limited to this, there are many contents, and the reaction of the disease is not only these, if there is anomaly, or to consult a professional understanding, do not presume to diagnose and treat oh!

The human body's normal tongue coating is a thin layer of white moss, attached to the tongue, thin white and moist, uniform texture. When the body has some problems, the tongue will appear accordingly some changes, can react to the part of the disease, degree, nature. Today we will take a look at, tongue moss yellow, is the body wants to tell you what things.

Yellow tongue coating, mostly suggests that the body has a heat disease, and in the process of disease development, the surface of the evil fight is more intense, the disease has been from the surface into the inside, the evil has been transformed into heat. Generally speaking, there are several reasons for yellow tongue coating.

1. High temperature fever. The body consumes more body fluids when the temperature rises, saliva secretion decreases, and the mouth is dry. Inflammatory exudates and microorganisms are more likely to proliferate and stay on the tongue, which will lead to yellowing and drying of the tongue coating. Yellow tongue coating due to fever is usually accompanied by dry mouth and other symptoms.

2. Hepatitis causes. Hepatitis B and other diseases can lead to liver damage, the liver's physiological functions are affected, blood circulation is not smooth. At this time there will be yellow tongue, and chronic hepatitis will be accompanied by some digestive symptoms, this need to go to the hospital to do a checkup, serious treatment, so as not to drag a small disease into a big disease.

3. Digestive tract dysfunction. More common in colitis, habitual constipation, dyspepsia and other gastrointestinal disorders, and often accompanied by anorexia, anorexia oil, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.

Therefore, "daily illumination, disease early to know", usually more careful observation of their own body parts there is no difference, you can early detection of disease, treatment of disease. The above are the possible causes of yellow tongue coating and the health condition of the body that it represents, I hope it is helpful to you.

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First of all, let's talk about the normal human tongue, Chinese medicine called "light red tongue, thin white moss". Tongue moss for the stomach gas born, and the five viscera and six bowels are by gas in the stomach, so the tongue changes can reflect the disease cold and heat, the nature of the disease and the depth of the disease.

Generally, yellow moss is the main internal, is real and hot, for the evil in the qi branch of the main tongue. Clinically, yellow moss has thick and thin moist and dry:

1. Thin yellow moss: moss is yellow and light in color, moss is thin, of which thin yellow is not dry, for the evil into the qi, the heat is not prevalent and fluid has not been injured; thin yellow is dry for the qi heat is prevalent and fluid has been injured.

2. Yellow and dry moss: the tongue moss is yellow and dry, not thick, and the tongue is red. It is the blazing of heat and evil in the qi division, and the fluid is injured.

3. moss old yellow dry crack: moss color deep yellow, moss surface burnt dry or even awn, moss cracks, for yangming viscera real, fluid injury.

4. yellow greasy moss or yellow turbid moss: yellow moss full of sticky and moist, or yellow and dirt, for the phenomenon of dampness and heat within.

5. Yellow and white moss: yellow moss with white or part of the white moss has not turned yellow. Some of the evil heat has entered the qi, but the surface evil has not been fully resolved, the moss is generally thin and dry; such as the performance of the yellow and white and more thick greasy, most of the dampness and heat began to heat.

Tongue diagnosis has a long history in Chinese medicine, as early as in the Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine and the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, and other classical medical books, there are records of tongue diagnosis. Nowadays, tongue diagnosis has become a unique diagnostic method under the guidance of TCM theory.

The clinical significance of tongue diagnosis in Chinese medicine lies in the fact that it is an indispensable objective basis for dialectics, regardless of the eight syllabi, etiology, internal organs, six meridians, Weiqi, Yingblood, and Sanjiao dialectical methods, all of which are based on the image of the tongue as an important dialectical index. Changes in the tongue, can objectively reflect the positive and weak, the depth of disease and evil, the nature of the evil, the progress of the disease, can determine the regression of the disease and prognosis, can guide the clinical use of medication.

1. Judging the prevalence of righteousness

The Guide to Tongue Recognition - Introduction quotes Xu Lingtai as saying, "The tongue is the external candidate of the heart, and the moss is a clear sign of the stomach; inspecting the tongue can account for the prevalence of righteousness, and examining the moss can identify the entrance and exit of evil." The moss is generated by the stomach qi, so the examination of the moss can know the survival of the stomach qi. The tongue is red and glossy, for the qi and blood to be vigorous; the tongue is pale and without luster, for the qi and blood to be weak. Tongue light without moss, stomach qi failure or stomach yin loss.

2. Identify the depth of the disease

A Guide to Tongue Recognition: "Recognize the quality of the tongue, and you can know the reality of the five organs. Depending on the coating of the tongue, the depth of the six evils can be observed." Thin tongue is usually at the early stage of the disease, the evil is still shallow, and the disease is on the surface. Thick tongue coating is when the disease enters the interior, and the disease is deeper.

3. Identify the nature of the disease

White tongue coating is cold, while yellow tongue coating is mostly heat. Yellow, thick and greasy tongue coating is dampness and heat.

4. Recognize the progression of the disease

Tongue moss color and moss texture, often with the advance and retreat of the condition, the fullness of the evil was corresponding dynamic changes. Tongue moss from white to yellow to gray-black, indicating that the disease from the surface and inside, from light to heavy, from cold to heat.

The relationship between the tongue and internal organs and diagnostic principles

Chinese medicine calls the top of the tongue the tongue surface and the bottom the tongue base.

Tongue and viscera connection mainly through the meridians, meridians and tendons of the circulation of the connection. For example, the Shaoyin heart meridian is connected to the tongue, and the Shaoyang meridian is also connected to the tongue. Spiritual Pivot - pulse," said: "the heart gas through the tongue, the heart and tongue can know the five flavors. The five viscera and six bowels are directly or indirectly through the meridians and tongue associated with the essence of the viscera on the tongue, their disease of the gas is bound to affect the tongue of the changes in the essence of the tongue and reflected in the tongue. For example, if the heart's Yang Qi is insufficient, the tongue is pale white and fat, and the tongue coating is corrosive and greasy, mostly due to accumulation of food and phlegm.

In the internal organs, especially the heart and the spleen and stomach and tongue is more closely related. Suwen - yin and yang should be like the theory" said: "the heart of the tongue" "in the hole for the tongue". The shape and color external diagnosis of simple mo - tongue tongue discernment" said: "the tongue for the heart orifice, ...... to the moss, is the fumigation of the stomach gas, the five viscera are endowed with gas in the stomach, so you can diagnose the five viscera of the cold and heat of the virtual reality also." Therefore, the essence of the five viscera and six bowels, through the spleen, stomach and kidney and tongue associated with the long five viscera and six bowels of the lesions can be reflected in the tongue.

Normal tongue image of Chinese medicine theory that: "light red tongue, thin white moss". That is, the tongue is soft, the movement is flexible and free, the color is light red and red live distinct, its fat and thin old and tender moderate, no abnormality, tongue moss color white, uniform particles, thinly spread on the tongue, rubbing not to go, the root of the root under it, dry and wet is appropriate, non-sticky and non-greasy .......

Contents of Tongue Examination

1. Look at the texture of the tongue

(1) Look at the tongue: look at the tongue's glory and flexibility. The so-called Rong, that is, Rongrun red live, angry, glossy, said to have God, otherwise known as no God!

(2) Looking at the color of the tongue, there are five kinds of main diseases

Pale white tongue: The tongue color is lighter than the normal light red, or even completely bloodless, known as pale white tongue. Mainly due to deficiency, cold, deficiency of qi and blood.

Red tongue: deeper than light red, even bright red, called red tongue. The main heat evidence.

Reddish tongue: a deeper red color than red tongue. Mainly external sensation or internal injury.

Purple tongue: the tongue is purple in color. The main disease is cold and hot.

Green Tongue: The color of the tongue is like the exposed green veins, and the lack of red is the green tongue. Mainly cold condensation and yang depression, blood stasis.

(3) Look at the shape of the tongue: it is to look at the shape of the tongue, including fat and thin, old and young, distended and deflated and other pathological shapes.

(4) Look at the tongue: that is, the dynamics of the tongue, including soft and hard, longitudinal, shrinkage, spit and so on.

2. Look at the tongue:

(1) Moss color: The moss color of the main disease is white, yellow, gray and black.

White moss: generally dominates superficial and cold symptoms.

Yellow moss: generally dominates internal and heat syndromes. Pale yellow heat is light, deep yellow heat is heavy, and burnt yellow heat knots. Thin yellowish tongue coating for external wind-heat or wind-cold heat.

Gray moss: light black. Mainly in the internal evidence, common in the internal heat evidence, also seen in the cold and damp evidence.

Black moss: darker than gray, mostly developed from gray moss or burnt yellow moss, main internal evidence, extreme heat, cold is also common in the serious stage of the disease.

In short, yellow tongue coating, if the malignant cold is light, fever is heavy, with headache, no sweat, mouth drink, dry nose, cough, thin yellow moss, for external wind-heat. Pungent cool translucent surface, clearing heat and removing toxins, Yin Qiao San main. If there is plumpness under the heart without pain, dry heaving or vomiting, intestinal tinnitus and discharging, with thin yellow and greasy tongue coating, it is gastric qi disharmony. It should harmonize the stomach and reduce the rebelliousness, open the knot and eliminate the lump. Chinese medicine half summer diarrhea heart soup main. For example: toothache and headache, heat in the cheeks, the teeth hate heat and like cold, or the gums are ulcerated, the breath is hot and smelly, the mouth and tongue are dry, and the tongue is red and yellow, indicating that there is accumulated heat in the stomach, which should be cleansed and cooled, and the stomach should be cleansed and dispersed. For example: a yellow face and eyes, yellow sharp, abdomen slightly full, thirst in the mouth, urine is not favorable, yellow tongue, is damp-heat jaundice, Yin Chen Artemisia soup main. For example: distention and fullness in the epigastrium, dysentery and diarrhea, or constipation, short and red urine, yellow and greasy tongue coating, belonging to damp-heat food accumulation, internal obstruction of the stomach and intestines, should be eliminated to eliminate stagnation, clear heat and dispel dampness. Hovenia Conducting Pill plus reduction.

Disease is a complex development process, the body's pathological changes are also a complex holistic changes, tongue diagnosis is also so, such as eating a variety of fruits in life on the tongue diagnosis can have a different impact on the specific circumstances of the specific treatment, because of their own clinical need to continue to learn to summarize, if there is something wrong, please look at the official more guidance.

Solar meridian evidence that passes into the Yangming Stomach meridian. The stomach and intestines are dry and hot, hence the symptoms of yellow tongue coating and thirst. If the symptoms of great body heat, profuse sweating, great thirst, and flooding of the pulse do not appear, you may refer to the following method.

Zhimu Porridge:

Zhimu 6g, smallpox pollen 10g, round-grained rice 15g, add water, make porridge.

Zhi Mu]: Bitter, sweet, cold. Attributes to the lung, stomach and kidney meridians.

Effects: Clearing away heat and fire, nourishing Yin and moistening dryness.

Smallpox Pollen: Bitter, slightly sweet, cold. Attributed to the lung and stomach meridians.

Effects: Clearing away heat and promoting generation of body fluid, subduing swelling and draining pus.

Japonica rice] is sweet and slightly cold. Into the spleen, stomach meridian.

Effects: Tonifying the middle Jiao, strengthening the spleen and stomach, removing thirst and stopping diarrhea and dysentery.

Hello, I am glad to answer your question. Yellow tongue coating is a manifestation of tongue coating in disease states, most commonly seen in external heat, internal heat or spleen and stomach dampness and heat. Why can these illnesses be reflected through the tongue coating?

Chinese medicine tongue diagnosis is mainly through the observation of the patient's tongue, tongue color and tongue moss to detect the internal organs function strong and weak, as well as the physiological and pathological reaction of the qi and blood, "Nei Jing" said "tongue for the heart of the seedling", because the heart of the mind, for the five viscera and six bowels of the leader, language is the embodiment of the activities of the mind, involved in the language of the word is clear in the key to the tongue, so, the tongue! Can respond to the basic situation of the internal organs, healthy people's tongue is thin white and moist, granular tongue distribution of uniformity, the tongue is more dense in the morning, tongue more after meals to reduce the formation of tongue moss is the stomach's yang qi transpiration stomach fluid on the tongue and the formation of the human body's spleen and stomach with the ability to transport and transform the food and drink, internal organs and muscles, gas and blood sources are relying on the spleen and stomach of the nutrients provided by the tongue moss comes from the stomach qi, gastric qi for the internal organs to provide nutrition, the tongue moss can indirectly react to the five organs, and can also be used as an example of the basic situation of the internal organs. Tongue can be an indirect response to the five viscera and bowels of the virtual situation, the Qing Dynasty medical practitioner Zhou Xuehai wrote "color external diagnostic brief", the book mentioned "tongue, is the stomach gas of the fumigation, the five viscera are endowed with gas in the stomach, so you can diagnose the five viscera of the cold, heat and virtual reality also".

★ Frequently asked questions about yellow tongue

• Tongue diagnosis is one of the four diagnostic Chinese medicine, in fact, Chinese medicine is concerned about the four diagnostic look and smell and ask and check, generally will not be based on what the tongue or pulse to qualify the origin of the disease evidence of deficiency, cold and heat, if you exclude dietary factors caused by the tongue coloring, including eatingOranges, vitamins or tabletsWaiting to color it yellow, yellow tongue coating is mostly indicative of the following areas, just for reference.
• ① External wind-heat: There are six kinds of climates in nature, namely wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire. When the six qi are too strong or when they do not appear in the season in which the qi is dominated by the qi, for example, wind dominates the spring season, and if the wind qi is present too much in the summer season, it tends to invade the human body, resulting in the wind-heat cold and flu disease in which the wind evils invade the surface of the body.
• Wind and heat are both yang evils, and when they invade the body, they damage the body's fluids, which are tormented by the heat evils.Thin yellow tongue coating is distributed on the surface of the tongue. Typical symptoms are fever caused by external wind-heat, headache, sore throat, or suppurative tonsils, and thin yellow tongue coating can confirm the presence of wind-heat evil. Taking the approach of dispersing wind and clearing heat can regulate it.
• Thin yellow tongue coating indicates that the part of the evil invasion is shallow, limited to the surface of the mouth and nose, so the tongue color and texture will not be affected, if the tongue coating is thick yellow is more suggestive of the internal organs of the heat or the spleen and stomach there is dampness and heat.

• ② heat in the internal organs or damp-heat in the spleen and stomach: tongue coating for the spleen and stomach yang vaporization of fluids generated by the stomach fire hyperactiveStomach fire when Yang Qi fumigation fluid excessive, fluid frying dry formation of thick yellow and dry tongue moss deposited on the tongue surface, at the same time, such patients are accompanied by bitter breath and bad breath, swollen gums, constipation, dry mouth and other stomach fire problems, the same lungs when the fire can be caused by yellow tongue moss, the principle of occurrence of the same in the gastric hyperthermia, just the lungs when the fire caused by coughing, yellow phlegm performance.
• Children's dietary disorders, stagnation in the spleen and stomach, food stagnation and fire can also cause secondary gastric fire hyperactivity, thick and yellow tongue coating, accompanied by abdominal distension and bad breath, constipation and other manifestations.
• Spleen and stomach dampness and heat more chronic spleen and stomach disorders, tongue coating yellow and thick greasy is the most obvious evidence of tongue coating performance, and this tongue coating yellow greasy very stubborn, this is because of long-term spleen deficiency, resulting in dampness stagnation in the middle jiao spleen and stomach, yang qi by the dampness stagnation, yang Yu into heat, dampness and heat fight knot, mostly in chronic gastrointestinal diseases people to abdominal distension, halitosis, mucus in the mouth, sticky loose stools and mucus, obesity, phlegm throat disadvantage, acid reflux heartburn The main manifestation.

★General category

The yellow tongue coating is a typical sign of heat, and should be accompanied by the observation of the tongue, tongue color, tongue pale white moss thin yellow heat more in the surface, mostly in the wind-heat cold, tongue red thick yellow and dry heat more in the inside, mostly in the internal organs of the lungs and stomach heat, or the spleen and stomach dampness and heat. Specific circumstances should be based on the patient's overall performance to analyze and judge, can not be based solely on the tongue coating yellow and determine what the evidence, yang qi insufficient cold and damp body can also appear tongue coating yellow, such as tongue coating yellow and slippery, more suggestive of sufficient fluid, if there is no heat performance is very likely to be a deficiency of yang and cold and dampness or cold and heat mixed problems. It is recommended to ask a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to give a diagnosis of complex situations, and not to extend the condition by self-judgment.

Lastly, I hope my answer was helpful.

Note: Hello, I am Chinese medicine Zhu Xuyang, the text refers to the theoretical works of Chinese medicine, combined with personal experience, pictures from the network.

Yellow tongue coating is due to heat. Chinese medicine classifies the color of yellow tongue coating as light yellow, dark yellow, and burnt yellow.

Chinese medicine believes that the light yellow tongue coating is an external symptom. At this time, the condition is mostly mild, mostly seen in the external wind-heat syndrome, or wind-cold into the heat.

As for the yellow and greasy tongue coating, Chinese medicine believes that it is mainly due to dampness and heat, phlegm and drink turning into heat or food accumulation turning into heat.

And the tongue is yellow and dry. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is mostly dryness and heat within. Mostly patients with deficiency of qi and blood as well as Yang deficiency and cold dampness.

However, it should be emphasized that tongue diagnosis includes both tongue texture and tongue coating.

And looking at the tongue is only one of the localized looking in the diagnosis.

There are two types of diagnosis: localized diagnosis and generalized diagnosis.

The method of diagnosing diseases in TCM is divided into looking, smelling, asking and cutting, which requires the 4 diagnoses to be combined and referenced together, and it is not possible to make a single list of the 4 diagnoses, nor can it be diagnosed by a small treatment in any of the 4 diagnoses of looking, smelling, asking and cutting respectively, because the diagnosis of TCM is relatively simple, and the difficulty lies in the differential diagnosis. One symptom can be the result of many diseases, so we have to make differential diagnosis among many diseases.

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Tongue diagnosis is one of the characteristic diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which is a method of detecting diseases in the body by observing changes in the tongue. Tongue image includes tongue texture and tongue moss, and the so-called tongue moss is the moss-like material on the tongue that is produced by the stomach qi. By observing the color and texture of the tongue moss, one can understand the depth of the disease and the changes of cold, heat, dampness and dryness, as well as the changes of the digestive function. Tongue diagnosis should be tongue quality, tongue moss combined to see, healthy people's tongue quality is generally slightly red and moist, not fat, not thin, free movement, tongue moss thin white, not thick, not greasy, not slippery, not dry.

The question said that after a few days of cold and flu, the tongue from white to yellow is the symptom of heat; drink a lot of water and still very thirsty is the heat of the evil inside to force the leakage of Jin or directly burn the fluid caused by the tongue dry, thin, said that the heat of the Jin, often accompanied by dry stools, urination, etc.; if the tongue is dry, thick, mostly stomach and intestinal injury to the Jin, if the burnt yellow and dry cracking of the heat, yellow moss and red-virgin tongue appear at the same time, the tongue is red-virgin moss yellow-thick people more than If the tongue is reddish-red and thick with yellowish-red moss, it is mostly a solid heat syndrome.

The above tongue, daily diet should be kept light, eat less greasy spicy stimulating food, drink more water. Yellow thin dry moss can usually use maitake water as a tea drink, yellow thick dry moss can be taken orally astragalus pulse drink to regulate.

If the tongue is yellow, there is usually dampness and heat in the body, and there is fire in the body. Tongue coating can reflect a person's internal organs and whether they are healthy or not. There are several types of yellow tongue coating, some of which are dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach, liver fire, kidney yin deficiency and so on. Normally, you can eat more fire to clear heat and dampness tea, such as winter melon mint, dandelion, chrysanthemum tea and so on. Eat a regular diet, be a little lighter. More exercise can also dispel dampness and heat, eat seven minutes full, can not eat more greedy Oh! Slowly adjust, after a period of time will be good.