A woman's tongue reveals her illness

In life, we taste all kinds of food through our tongue. For female friends, when we feel uncomfortable, especially when we think it is just a minor illness, we don’t pay special attention to it. Then we can observe our tongue, and we can see various conditions from the various changes in the tongue. So what symptoms can be seen on our women’s tongue? Let us learn about them together.

When Chinese medicine examines the tongue, it mainly observes the changes in the tongue coating and tongue quality.

When observing the tongue coating, one should first look at whether the coating is thick, thin, dry, smooth, greasy, or sticky. Second, one should observe the different changes in the coating's color, such as yellow, white, black, or gray. Then, based on the changes in the texture and color of the tongue coating, we can determine whether the pathogenic factors are on the surface or inside, and whether the disease is cold or hot.

The tongue coating of a normal person is a thin layer of white coating. If you look closely, you can see tiny hair-like structures, just like a layer of tender grass just out of the ground. The tongue coating is growing every moment, but it will fall off automatically due to eating, etc.

Therefore, the tongue coating always maintains normal thickness and structure. Because there is an appropriate amount of saliva in the mouth, the surface of the tongue is moist.

These are the manifestations of tongue coating in healthy people. If the tongue coating grows more and falls off less, and becomes thicker, it is pathological.

When Chinese medicine doctors diagnose patients, in addition to looking at the thickness of the tongue coating, they also look at the color of the tongue coating.

When the color of the tongue coating turns yellow, Chinese medicine believes that the patient has a fever, which is common in patients with high fever. For such patients, doctors often use drugs that clear heat and detoxify.

If some patients have black, dry, cracked tongue coating, this indicates that the condition is critical, internal heat is severe, and body fluids are depleted.

If the tongue coating is black and smooth, it often indicates that the patient has severe visceral cold and dampness or kidney deficiency.

By observing the shape and color of the tongue coating, you can also determine the progression of the disease.

For example, if a person has an external disease and the color of the tongue coating changes from white to yellow and from yellow to black, it often means that the disease is developing and the condition is getting worse.

If the color of the tongue coating changes from black to yellow, and from yellow to white, it means the disease is gradually improving.

If the tongue coating appears from none, and becomes thicker from thin, it means the disease is progressing; on the contrary, if the tongue coating becomes thinner from thick, and becomes less from abundant, it means the pathogenic factors are gradually subsiding and the disease is improving.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that observing the tongue quality is more important than observing the tongue coating, because the lesions reflected in the tongue quality are more profound.

Observe the tongue quality, including its color and shape. The tongue of a normal person is light red, and because of good blood supply, the color is bright and moist. The edge of the tongue is of moderate thickness, smooth, round and neat.

Changes in tongue color, such as red, white, or purple, are abnormal.

If the tongue turns white, it indicates blood deficiency or yang deficiency with cold.

If the tongue turns red, it means heat in the blood or heat in yin deficiency.

If there are some small red spots on the tip or edge of the tongue, it also means that there is heat. If it is yin deficiency with cold, it should be treated with warming and strengthening yang drugs; if it is yin deficiency with heat, it should be treated with yin nourishing and heat clearing drugs.

If you see purple spots on your tongue, or the entire tongue appears bluish purple, Chinese medicine calls it blood stasis. Some patients with heart disease, liver cirrhosis, gastrointestinal ulcers, menstrual disorders, and malignant tumors often experience this condition.

After reading the above article, we know that various symptoms can be reflected from various changes in the tongue. In particular, changes in women's tongue color can reflect some of their health problems. I hope we can learn the methods in the article, pay attention to changes in our tongue at any time, and eliminate minor ailments in our body.