What color is normal tongue coating?

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Tongue coating is a traditional Chinese medicine term. There is a thin white and moist coating on the back of the tongue in normal people, which is called tongue coating. It is composed of exfoliated keratinized epithelium, saliva, bacteria, food debris and exuded white blood cells. Under normal circumstances, due to chewing and swallowing, as well as saliva, food washing, often constantly remove the material on the surface of the tongue, only a thin white layer of tongue coating. What color is normal tongue coating? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What color is normal tongue coating?

First: healthy tongue coating is like this: it has light pink color, fresh and dry surface, and is not thick. The mouth is clean without peculiar smell. The tongue coating itself is smooth, and there is no impression of teeth occlusion on its upper surface. The color of the upper surface of the tongue coating turns white. This white is a thin layer, as if it grows on the tongue. It doesn't matter if this happens occasionally. If you have a few days in a row, you will be "inflamed". Drink plenty of boiled water and you will be able to eliminate it in a few days.

Second: the surface of tongue coating is thick, and it looks like a layer of paste, and the color is white. At this time, if you use a clean fingernail to scrape the tongue coating surface, you can scrape out this layer of similar residue. This phenomenon indicates that the body's intestines and stomach, especially the stomach is uncomfortable.

Third, the surface of tongue coating is turbid. The common causes include: stomach cold, excessive tension of thoughts and emotions, poor sleep, etc. Often accompanied by bad breath, bitter mouth symptoms. Scrape things with fingernails, the effect is the same as above. When you talk face to face, you have to use gum to cover up.

matters needing attention

1. Choose the food of clearing away heat and dampness, such as wax gourd, balsam pear, white radish, towel gourd, lotus root, mung bean, job's tears, etc., and eat less hot food, such as mutton, black bone chicken, fish, shrimp, jujube, longan, litchi, mango, cherry, pepper, etc. 2. We must pay attention to the color of the tongue in our life, so as to avoid ignorance of diseases and harm to our health.