Yellow tongue coating in children

In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that a person’s tongue coating can reveal many problems. If the tongue coating is yellow, it is likely caused by stomach fire. What medicine should children take if their tongue coating is thick and yellow? In this case, you actually don't need to take medicine, because apart from the yellow tongue coating, there are no other discomfort symptoms in the body. Parents can make some adjustments through diet. At the same time, avoid giving your children spicy and irritating foods.

The yellow and greasy tongue coating is called yellow greasy coating in TCM diagnosis. The tongue appearance is yellow and sticky, with particles tightly adhered, like yellow powder smeared on the tongue surface. The yellow and greasy tongue coating is formed by the combination of pathogenic heat and phlegm, dampness and turbidity.

Yellow tongue coating indicates heat, greasy tongue coating indicates dampness, phlegm, and food stagnation. The main diseases caused by yellow and greasy tongue coating are: stagnation of damp-heat, phlegm and fluid turning into heat, or food stagnation turning into heat; it also causes exogenous summer heat, damp-heat, etc. Cure heat, eliminate dampness and remove phlegm. In addition, when distinguishing the yellow and greasy tongue coating, attention should also be paid to combining it with the tongue quality. It is common in clinical practice in acute and chronic gastroenteritis. Tongue images of patients with cholecystitis, uremia, etc.

Dietary supplements

Banana root and honey in appropriate amounts.

Preparation and usage: Wash and mash the banana roots, use clean gauze to squeeze out 1500~2000 ml of juice, add honey and take. Drink frequently.

30 grams of gypsum, 9 grams of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, 6 grams of licorice, and 30 grams of polished rice.

Preparation and usage: Put the first three ingredients in a clay pot and boil them in water, then remove the residue and add in rice to cook porridge for consumption. Take 1 dose per day, for several consecutive doses.

200 grams of fresh bitter gourd, 100 grams of lean pork, and appropriate amount of salt.

Preparation and usage: Remove the core of fresh bitter melon and cut into pieces. Wash and slice the lean pork. Put them in a casserole. Add appropriate amount of water to boil soup. Season with a small amount of salt. Drink the soup and eat the bitter melon and lean pork.

In clinical practice, if there is a yellow and greasy tongue coating, it is identified as damp-heat and treated with clearing and transforming methods, which is known to everyone. However, not many people know that it is caused by qi deficiency and dysfunction of transportation and transformation, which leads to dampness obstruction and inability to transform. I would like to cite a piece of medical theory by Mr. Zhang Shugeng, which may provide doctors with a new idea and be of some help in clinical practice.

Thick and greasy yellow tongue coating is not necessarily a symptom of damp-heat. It can also be caused by Qi deficiency and dysfunction of transportation and transformation, which leads to dampness obstruction. Some patients with thick and greasy yellow tongue coating have normal tongue quality, slippery pulse, bitter taste in the mouth, chest and abdominal distension, poor appetite, yellow urine, etc., which seem to be positive symptoms. The doctor has used bitter, cold and dampness-drying drugs such as Atractylodes, Magnolia officinalis, Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, and Plantago for several months, but the tongue coating remains the same. But if you look closely, you will find one or two symptoms of deficiency, such as soft and slippery pulse, fat tongue, cracks in the yellow and greasy tongue coating, bloating in the chest and abdomen, preference for warmth, loose stools, etc. The treatment can be changed to Bu Zhong Yi Qi, Xiang Sha Liu Jun, etc. with modifications. After taking them, the chest and abdomen will feel comfortable and the tongue coating will gradually disappear. This is also the method of using the method of blocking for blocking.