After reading these tongues, I read the "health password"!

Many friends who have seen Chinese medicine know that in addition to seeing the doctor, the doctor has an important one to look at the tongue. Don't underestimate the small tongue, it is a "medical report" carried with you. Once the body is, maybe the tongue knows earlier than you.

This week, Xiaokang sister invited Professor Hu Tiaocheng, the director of the Chinese Medicine and the Fourth Generation of Hu Shiyin Department of Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to teach everyone how to be at home, and to find the signal of physical diseases in advance through the change of tongue.

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What can you see if you see your tongue?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the tongue is the seedlings of the heart. Outside of the spleen, the tongue coating is born of the stomach gas, and a tongue is a barometer with a healthy barometer of various organs of the body.

Tip of the tongue: heart and lung

Tongue: spleen and stomach

Tongue root: kidney

Benefits of the tongue (side): left liver and right bile

You can see a lot of body problems in the tongue, so how do we look at the tongue? Looking at the tongue mainly includes two parts: tongue quality and tongue coating. Two parts should be divided into both and they must be seen.

1. Look at the tongue quality

Is it red or purple; is it light or dark?

2. Look at the tongue

Whether there are moss, whether the moss is thick or thin, the color of the moss is yellow or white, and the moss has no fluid.

In this way, the nature of the disease, the depth of the disease, the prosperity of qi and blood, the profit and loss of the fluid, and the virtual reality of the viscera.

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How to look at the tongue?

The normal tongue is red with red tongue, uniform tongue coating, thin white and moisturizing, referred to as "light red, thin white moss".

Generally speaking, red tongue deeper than normal colors is a relatively common signs. It prompts your body to have a heat certificate. But the position of the tongue is different, and the problems reflect are different.

The tip of the tongue is red: it is the main manifestation of the heart fire, and there are symptoms such as dry mouth, upset, sore tongue, poor sleep, and urine Huang Shao.

The sides of the tongue are red, and the liver fire is prosperous: the tongue has sores or dry mouth, and the sleep is not good. This is a typical heart fire; The performance of liver fire.

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How to look at the tongue coating?

Normal tongue coating is thin and white, moisturizes, and moderate dryness. You can see light red tongue through the tongue coating. And white moss, yellow moss, and greasy moss may represent some diseases in the body.

White moss

It is more common in some cold physique. The tongue coating is white and greasy, that is, a thick layer of white tongue coating on the tongue, which can not go. This tongue elephant often indicates that the spleen and stomach are not good, indigestion, and often occur in abdominal pain and diarrhea. Especially when the temperature is high than the cold drinking and fruits, the spleen yang is injured, and the humidity is heavy, it is particularly prone to white and thick tongue coating. Avoid cold food.

Yellow moss

The yellow tongue coating is mostly aphrodisiac. The common is lung heat and stomach heat. If the yellow part is in the middle of the tongue coating, it indicates that the stomach fire is steamed on the tongue. Food and other factors. Avoid hot food.

Greasy moss

It is more common in some humid -heat constitutions. Due to eating more fatty and sweet, spicy food, etc. Secondly, the accumulation of food caused by injuries can also be seen. Such patients are often accompanied by symptoms of mouth sticky, bad breath, sore tongue, stool sticky toilet, and yellow urine. Need to avoid raw cold melon fruit.

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What are the precautions for the tongue?

If you want to accurately see the situation of the tongue, there are the following precautions.

1. Light:

It is best to look at the tongue image of natural light. The light should be sufficient and soft. Don't be too dark and bright.

2. Avoid factors that affect tongue coating:

The tongue will affect the color of the tongue coating due to food and drugs, and Chinese medicine is called moss. Therefore, it is recommended to look at the tongue. It is not time to eat in the morning.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, how to prevent diseases, Professor Hu Tiancheng sent the "three -character sutra". Adults must do "three links":

1. Thoughts: Keep your normal mentality and abandon your selfish thoughts;

2. qi and blood through: Choose the exercise that suits you to promote blood circulation;

3. Two stools: To keep the urine unobstructed to ensure the metabolism of the human body.

-The doctor interviewed by this issue-

Text/Edit: Wendy

Figure: Peng Donghui

Photo source: respondent picture confession

Responsible editor: soup soup

Produced: Huang Liqin

Review: Lan Lan

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