How to treat oral ulcer in TCM

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In our traditional Chinese medicine, oral ulcer belongs to the category of "aphthous ulcer". There must be heat and toxin, but there are solid heat and deficiency heat. At the beginning, patients with oral ulcer may have excess heat, such as stomach fire and damp heat of spleen and stomach. They are treated with bitter cold drugs, such as Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis, gypsum, Radix Rehmanniae and Cortex Moutan, or they often drink herbal tea at home and heal after a period of time. However, people with recurrent ulcers may be due to deficiency cold in their own constitution, or excessive use of the above-mentioned cold and cool drugs may cause damage to the body's Yang Qi, which is manifested in deficiency cold in the lower jiao (below the abdomen), while deficiency heat in the upper Jiao, which is commonly referred to as upper heat and lower cold in traditional Chinese medicine. When the oral ulcer attacks again, the traditional Chinese medicine of clearing away heat and bitter cold can temporarily inhibit the deficiency fire of Shangjiao, and the symptoms disappear temporarily. But at the same time, it will damage the Yang Qi of Xiajiao. The deficiency of Yang Qi of Xiajiao will cause the deficiency fire to rush up continuously, so the oral ulcer is no better. Here is how to treat oral ulcer in TCM.

How to treat oral ulcer in TCM

First, there is a characteristic of refractory oral ulcer patients with upper heat and lower cold, which is often shown on the tongue: when the tongue is easily stretched out, the tip of the tongue is red or has red spots, and there are tooth marks on both sides of the tongue. The red tip of the tongue is a sign of scorching and heat; there are teeth marks on both sides of the tongue, because Yang Qi can't melt water after Yang deficiency, the tongue is swollen, the tongue is widened, and the teeth are squeezed, so there are teeth marks. Patients with recurrent oral ulcers can see tooth marks in the mirror. They should pay attention to sticking out their tongue. They should not stick out their tongue pointedly. Otherwise, even if it is not empty and hot, their tongue will turn red. They should stretch out flat and spread out their tongue as far as possible.

Second: from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, kidney qi is the driving force of life. Child Kidney Yang foot, so energetic. Over middle age, kidney qi gradually weakens, physical endurance declines, slow response, poor memory, are all manifestations of Yang Qi loss. "Kidney (water) and heart (fire) should communicate with each other, keep balance, and have normal physiological function. Deficiency of kidney qi, that is, deficiency of kidney, can't balance heart fire. Heart fire goes up, leading to deficiency fire rushing up, "Qin Jian said." the symptoms are repeated oral ulceration, dry mouth, but drinking water doesn't quench thirst. The tip of tongue is red, there are tooth marks on both sides of tongue, and the pulse is fine. This kind of patients are generally deficiency heat above and deficiency cold below. " According to reports, if you have such a constitution, usually eat a little hot pot, or fried things, the anger will come up, and even at night the quilt is a little thick, in the morning, the mouth will rot.

Third: the method of Warming Yang, clearing heat and detoxifying is used to treat recurrent and intractable oral ulcer. After several pieces of medicine, the pain can be relieved obviously, the healing of ulcer surface can be shortened to two or three days, and the occurrence of new ulcer can be reduced. If we want to completely cure the disease, we need to transfer the constitution of upper heat and lower cold, which takes a period of time, as short as several months, as long as several years. Besides drug treatment, daily diet is also the key to recuperation.

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In addition to try to eat less cold food, such as eggplant, white radish, wax gourd skin, towel gourd, cold food to eat less, such as balsam pear, lotus root, water chestnut, persimmon, banana. Sometimes cold food can not be avoided, you can add a lot of ginger in cold food to neutralize its cold. Secondly, do not eat hot food, such as fried, fried, barbecue. Moreover, do not eat strong hot food, such as mustard, pepper, cinnamon, pepper;