Traditional Chinese medicine believes that whether the oral taste is normal or not mainly depends on the functions of the heart and spleen. The heart is a monarch, the heart is realized by the tongue, and the tongue can know five flavors when the heart is harmonious; Spleen is the storehouse officer. The spleen opens to the mouth, and the spleen can know the five grains. If the heart is not harmonious, the temper is insufficient, and the transportation is abnormal, there will be abnormal taste (oral odor). Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that oral odor is often a "signal" of certain diseases and should be paid attention to.
Tianzui
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the sweetness of oral cavity is caused by damp-heat of spleen and stomach, phlegm stagnation of liver and spleen.
Modern medicine believes that the sweetness in the mouth is related to the dysfunction of the digestive system. Due to the dysfunction of digestive system, the secretion of various enzymes is abnormal, and the content of amylase in saliva is too high, which stimulates the taste buds of tongue to produce a sweet feeling. It is generally believed that this disease is also more common in diabetic patients.
Those who have a sweet mouth with anorexia, fullness in the stomach, short and red urine, thick and greasy tongue coating and moist pulse can only use flying grass blindly and make tea with boiling water instead. Alternatively, Euryale Semen, Poria, Lentinus Edodes, magnolia officinalis flower, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Gardenia, Coptidis Rhizoma and Pogostemon Pogostemonis 15g can be decocted in water.
bitter taste
Bitter taste in the mouth mostly belongs to hepatobiliary heat syndrome and gastrointestinal heat syndrome. This disease is mostly caused by bile transpiration. It is more common in acute attacks of various inflammations.
It is generally believed that bitterness is related to abnormal bile excretion. Some cancer patients often have a bitter taste because of the disorder of tongue microcirculation, the atrophy of taste buds on the tip of the tongue and the change of saliva composition.
In case of bitter taste in the mouth, such as headache, dizziness, red eyes, impatience and irritability, poor sleep, yellow tongue coating, rapid pulse, etc., Longdan Xiegan Decoction can be used to clear away the liver and gallbladder depression, and clearing away heat will eliminate the bitterness by itself.
Bitter mouth
Salty mouth is mainly the manifestation of deficiency of kidney yin and deficiency of fire. Symptoms include soreness of the waist and knees, hot flashes in the afternoon, red tongue with little coating and rapid pulse. Chinese medicine believes that it is related to the kidney. More common in chronic pharyngitis and oral ulcer. Sometimes it can also appear in people with chronic nephritis and impaired renal function. These people's saliva contains more sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, and the ph value is mostly alkaline.
Oral acid
Gastric acid is mostly caused by the heat of the liver and gallbladder multiplied by the spleen. "Liver heat leads to sour mouth", which is the view of traditional Chinese medicine. Stomach acid reflects "spleen and stomach qi deficiency", which is more common in gastritis and digestive tract ulcer. Some patients with abnormal gastrointestinal tract have excessive gastric acid secretion and often feel sour. From the saliva of patients with oral acid, it is found that the contents of lactic acid, phosphatase and carbonic anhydrase in most saliva of these people are high, and the ph is acidic.
If the sour mouth is accompanied by chest tightness, tight ribs, thin yellow tongue coating and rapid pulse, you can take Zuojin Pill. Or 30g of calcined concha arcae (or cuttlefish bone) is decocted in water. Or 1g Evodia rutaecarpa and 6g Coptidis Rhizoma, add 300g of water, decoct to 200g, and take orally.
(of food) not too salty.
The oral cavity feels tasteless, which is more common in people with weak spleen and stomach or spleen deficiency after illness. In addition, digestive system diseases, endocrine diseases, consumptive diseases with long-term fever, malnutrition, vitamin and microelement zinc, protein deficiency, calorie deficiency, etc. Can make the tongue feel pale because of the decreased sensitivity of taste buds. Patients often have poor appetite, tasteless food and anorexia. In some elderly people, this disease often occurs because of the degradation of taste buds.
If accompanied by weakness of spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, weakness of limbs, chest obstruction, pale tongue with white fur and weak pulse, you can take Shenling Baishu powder to invigorate qi and spleen.
Bitter mouth
Those with excessive liver fire, kidney deficiency and phlegm heat feel spicy in their mouths. Mostly caused by lung heat or stomach fire. It can also appear in patients with lobar pneumonia, bronchitis pneumonia, abscess, hypertension, neurosis, menopausal syndrome and long-term low fever.
It has been reported that oral fever is also related to high tongue temperature and excessive sensitivity of tongue mucosa to salty taste and pain.
For spicy mouth, Xie Baisan can clear lung and clear heat; You can also use fresh Cortex Lycii decoction instead of tea.
halitosis
It is generally believed that people with periodontal diseases, dental caries, oral ulcers and other diseases often have an unpleasant smell in their mouths. In addition, when there are inflammatory lesions or purulent secretions in the nasopharynx and nasal cavity, it will also cause bad breath.
Some people think that. Bad breath is related to digestive dysfunction. This is because gastrointestinal dysfunction or indigestion will change the composition of human saliva, making it acidic, which is conducive to the reproduction and activities of corrupt bacteria, thus leading to bad breath.
Motherland medicine believes that bad breath will occur when the spleen opens to the mouth, the spleen and stomach are damp and hot, and the internal fire smokes people.
Patients with halitosis can take baohe pills orally. You can also take 6 grams of Prunella vulgaris with water instead of tea, and the symptoms can disappear in a short time.
Kouxiang
It is more common in severe diabetes. Patients often feel the taste of fruit in their mouths. In this case, you should go to a medical institution for examination and symptomatic treatment. Don't be careless
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Dietotherapy of oral odor
CCTV International March 20041117: 41
In our daily life, there is often such a strange phenomenon, that is, we don't feel that there is anything wrong with our bodies, but there is a strange smell in our mouths. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the tongue dominates the sense of taste, and the heart and qi communicate with the tongue. Bad breath in the mouth is a harbinger of a certain disease, so we should be vigilant and use diet therapy in time.
Bitterness is often related to abnormal bile metabolism. Usually, bitterness reflects heat stagnation in the liver and gallbladder or phlegm-heat imbalance in the body. Diet, avoid spicy, fried, barbecue and other hot and dry products, eat more cool soups, such as medlar leaf and egg soup, chrysanthemum and barley melon pulp, fresh bamboo shoots, lean meat and so on.
The digestive system dysfunction of sweet mouth can cause abnormal secretion of various digestive enzymes, especially the increase of amylase content in saliva, which stimulates the taste buds on the tongue and makes it feel sweet. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is hot and sweet. Sweetness reflects spleen heat, which is different from excess heat. People who are really hot are thirsty and like drinking water, so they will urinate yellow. Deficiency heat leads to loss of appetite and fatigue. In diet, people who are really hot and dry should avoid spicy products, and can eat things that clear away heat and purge fire, such as tofu cabbage soup, Ge Fen stewed shad soup and wild amaranth soup. People with insufficient calories can eat lotus seed syrup, boiled duck with lotus seeds in Hu Aishan and raw dangshen fish in Hu Aishan.
Sour mouth Chinese medicine believes that sour mouth is "spleen and stomach weakness" or liver meridian is too hot. When the liver meridian is hot, the mouth is sour and bitter at the same time, chest and ribs swell and ache, impatience and irritability, headache and dizziness, yellow urine, dry stool and slippery pulse. In diet, people with liver meridian fever should not eat spicy and fried hot products, but should eat cool products, such as sashimi Lycium barbarum soup, chamomile japonica rice porridge, kelp soup and so on. People with spleen deficiency and body weakness should eat products that strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, such as stewed black-bone chicken with Dangshen and Qizi in Hu Aishan, stewed pork belly with pepper, and glutinous rice porridge with crucian carp.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that salty taste is kidney, and salty taste is caused by hyperactivity of renal fluid. Overwork, aging and chronic diseases can all lead to kidney deficiency. In diet, people with kidney yin deficiency should not eat spicy, hot and yang-nourishing products, but should eat products that nourish yin and tonify kidney, such as stewed fish with Lycium barbarum in Hu Aishan, stewed hen with Polygonatum sibiricum in Hu Aishan, glutinous rice porridge with sea cucumber in Hu Aishan and stewed wild duck with Lycium barbarum. People with kidney-yang deficiency should not eat products that are cold and hurt the kidney, but should eat things that warm the kidney and strengthen yang, such as antler glue ginger rice porridge, stewed mutton with medlar and chestnuts, stewed dog meat with aconite, stewed lean meat with velvet slices and so on.
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Prevention and treatment of oral odor with vitamin C
CCTV International March 2004 1 1 17:42
Because everyone's eating habits and physical condition are different, they often induce various oral diseases, such as bad breath and oral ulcers. In addition, there are many bad teeth that also plague our health.
There are many reasons for bad breath. In order to avoid its troubles, it is one thing to strengthen oral cleaning and prevent the growth of oral bacteria, but it is more important to prevent oral diseases in time by conditioning the physical environment and supplementing appropriate vitamins, especially vitamin C. Only in this way can the root cause of oral odor be fundamentally eliminated.
Taking vitamin C tablets can increase the local concentration of vitamin C in the oral cavity, improve the local circulation of the oral cavity, participate in the repair of the oral surface, promote the healing of ulcers, maintain the permeability and integrity of periodontal capillaries, enhance the immunity of the body, and have good effects on the prevention and treatment of oral diseases such as oral ulcers and gingival bleeding.
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Drinking tea regularly can prevent tooth decay and eliminate oral odor.
CCTV International March 2004 1 1 17:43
If you want to have healthy white teeth, of course, you should form a good habit of brushing your teeth every day. However, German dental experts recently pointed out that drinking tea every day is also very beneficial to your teeth. The reason is that tea is rich in fluoride, which can strengthen enamel and prevent excessive acidic substances from forming in the mouth.
Every piece of tea is rich in fluoride, and these nutrients can be transferred to hot water during brewing. Fluoride can strengthen enamel and prevent the formation of dental caries. Only one liter of black tea can provide about 2 mg of fluorine for human body, which can meet 50% of the fluorine content needed by an adult in one day. Every kilogram of dry tea contains 40 mg to 330 mg of fluorine, which is 10 times or even hundreds times higher than that of ordinary plants. Dental researchers have studied tea all over the world and found that oolong tea and green tea in China have the highest fluorine content. In addition, the fluorine content in newly picked tea leaves is high; The fluorine content of low-grade tea is higher than that of high-grade tea; Coarse old tea leaves are higher than tea buds and tender leaves. Therefore, it is a good choice to gargle with low-grade tea.
In addition, tea also contains polyphenols, which can prevent the formation of dental caries. Dental caries, also known as tooth decay, is caused by the decomposition of food containing sugar and starch into acidic substances by tissues in the oral cavity. Polyphenols can prevent starch from being converted into glucose in the oral cavity, and glucose is the chief culprit leading to bacterial growth and acidic substances in dental plaque. The experiment shows that when the subjects gargle with black tea for 5 times every 3 minutes for 30 seconds, dental plaque bacteria stop growing and produce acidic substances. It is worth mentioning that green tea leaves are not oxidized in the production process, so it contains more polyphenols than black tea.
Drinking tea can also eliminate oral odor. Because pectin and other substances in tea react chemically with saliva, it can enhance the antibacterial ability of oral cavity.