What is whitish tongue coating?

From the point of view of Chinese medicine, if the tongue coating is thick or white, and the body has no other discomfort symptoms, it is generally considered to be the performance of "getting angry". This situation often leads to bad breath and even bad breath. Therefore, it is suggested that you can brush your tongue coating lightly with a toothbrush when brushing your teeth, preferably with a light diet. In addition, if this situation lasts for a long time, you should go to the stomatology department of the hospital to have a look, because white tongue coating may also be a symptom of gastrointestinal diseases.

Tongue coating is too white: mostly cold syndrome, thin and slippery due to exogenous wind and cold, thick and white and slippery due to cold dampness or cold phlegm. Patients with wet or phlegm retention in the body may have white coating. Clinically, some patients with pleural effusion, ascites, chronic nephritis, asthma, chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis have wet or phlegm retention in the body, resulting in thick white or greasy tongue coating. From the point of view of modern medicine, it may be that there is more saliva secretion in the mouth and more sputum secretion in the trachea, which softens the keratinocytes or keratinocytes of the tongue and makes the cells swell and not easy to fall off; Coupled with tongue edema and lymphatic reflux disorder, the old keratinocytes on the tongue surface do not fall off, and new keratinocytes increase and accumulate, so the tongue is swollen and fat, and the tongue coating is white, thick and greasy.