Chinese medicine has always paid attention to "looking, smelling, asking and cutting". Let's go to see an old Chinese doctor. The doctor will let you stick out your tongue for the first time and make a basic judgment by observing your tongue coating. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tongue coating can reflect some problems in the body to a certain extent. When looking in the mirror in the morning, I wonder how many people will observe their tongue coating by the way. The whitening and thickening of the tongue coating is actually a healthy signal from the body. You got it?

The tongue coating is white and thick, suggesting that there is something wrong with the body.

1, heavy moisture. The tongue coating is white and thick, and the most common factor is excessive moisture in the body. In fact, everyone is more or less wet. If you eat cold drinks and drink ice water in summer, the humidity will increase. People with heavy humidity, not only the tongue coating will thicken and turn white, but also the stool will not take shape. After defecation, the stool will stick to the toilet and can't be flushed down several times. I often feel tired and sleepy, and edema may appear in my lower limbs. Although heavy moisture has little effect on the body in a short time, it may cause some chronic diseases if it is not removed for a long time, so it is very important to get rid of dampness.

2. Abnormal gastrointestinal function. Under normal circumstances, people's tongue coating should be relatively thin, with moderate humidity. If the tongue coating turns white and thick, accompanied by bad breath, it is mostly caused by abnormal gastrointestinal function. Thickening of tongue coating may also be caused by excessive internal heat. Dry tongue coating, bad breath, loss of appetite. In these cases, it is very important to regulate the stomach in time. You can eat more foods rich in dietary fiber, exercise more, eat healthily, promote the peristalsis of the stomach and regulate the function of the stomach normally.

The thick and white tongue coating is related to many factors. The most common is heavy moisture in the body and abnormal gastrointestinal function. At this time, we must learn to improve our eating habits, eat light food, eat more digestible food and exercise more. This is very important. In short, tongue coating can be said to be a "barometer" of human health, and the abnormality of tongue coating is an "alarm" of human health. Once the alarm sounds, it should be adjusted immediately to avoid further harm to the body.