Abnormal taste refers to abnormal taste and smell in the mouth. In life, some people will feel that their mouths are weak, and there is no taste in everything they eat, some people will feel bitter in their mouths when they wake up in the morning, and some people will feel sticky and sweet in their mouths. These abnormal tastes in the mouth are collectively called abnormal tastes. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen opens the mouth, and the qi from other organs can also flow through the meridians to the mouth. According to the Five Elements theory, the five flavors are sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty, corresponding to the liver, heart, spleen, lung, and kidney, so the taste is abnormal. It is often a reflection of spleen and stomach dysfunction or other visceral diseases. The meaning of common taste abnormalities in Chinese medicine is introduced as follows.
Sour mouth
Sour mouth refers to the symptoms of consciously sour taste in the mouth, or even sour gas when smelled. Mouth soreness is different from "tonic acid" or "spitting acid". The former is only a sour taste in the mouth, but no acidic water overflows. Tonic acid is the acidic water overflows in the stomach, but the etiology and pathogenesis of the two are roughly the same, but the degree is different. Sore mouth often has the following situations:
- Hepatic Stagnation and Heat : If the mouth is bitter, the chest and flanks are full of pain, the sex is irritable, or even swallowed. Sour, recurring attacks, a burning sensation in the stomach when swallowing acid, or feeling sad in the heart, dry stools, yellow urine, this is the liver and stomach stagnation heat, sore mouth. Can choose to use Huaganjian, Zuojinwan addition and subtraction to soothe the liver and relieve stagnation, release heat and stomach.
- Diet accumulation : If the mouth becomes sour, or belching sour, anorexia, anorexia, abdominal swelling and fullness, even soreness in the stomach, burning sensation in the stomach, it is a sore mouth. You can choose Baohe pills and Zhishidaozhi pills for digestion and stomach.
- spleen-deficiency wood multiplication: If the mouth feels sore, or vomiting soreness, vomiting, or belching too much, natrium is not fragrant, fatigue, abdominal distension and loose stools, it is spleen deficiency and soreness. Chaishao Liujunzi Decoction can be used to strengthen the spleen and stomach, and also to calm the liver.
口苦
Mouth bitterness refers to symptoms of conscious bitterness in the mouth. It is more common in the liver and gallbladder fire, damp-heat internal accumulation causes gallbladder reversal and heart fire inflammation, so there is a saying that "liver qi is hot, and bile vents pain."
- liver gallbladder firewang: mouth pains and upset, dry mouth, craving for water, too much rest, irritability, dizziness, headache, red face and dizziness , Burning pain in both sides, yellow urine, dry stool, this is the pain of the liver and gallbladder. Longdan Xiegan Decoction can be used to clear liver and gallbladder stagnation and fire.
- 邪在少阳: bitter mouth, dry throat, dizziness, cold and heat, chest fullness, upset and vomiting, loss of appetite, bad mouth in Shaoyang due to evil. You can choose Xiao Chai Hu Tang and Jie Shaoyang.
- 心火上炎: Bitter mouth, dry mouth, tongue pain, mouth sores. Upset and hot, insomnia can not lie down, short urination. The tip of the tongue is red and thorny, or the tongue is split, the coating is peeling or no coating, and the pulse is thin. You can choose Huanglian Ejiao Jizihuang Tang to add and subtract to clear the heart and reduce the fire.
口甜
Mouth sweetness refers to symptoms of conscious sweetness in the mouth. It is more common in spleen and stomach damp-heat and spleen deficiency. The ancients called "spleen heat and sweet mouth".
- spleen and stomach dampness and heat : The sweetness of the spleen and stomach dampness and heat is mostly related to the spicy and greasy diet. It is often accompanied by thirst. Sores, dry stools, can choose to use Xiehuang San to clear the spleen fire.
- spleen-qi-deficiency: Deficiency of spleen qi and sweet mouth are more common in the elderly with chronic illnesses and injuries to the spleen and stomach, leading to deficiency of both qi and yin, deficiency and heat endogenous, spleen and body scorching, but the mouth is sweet, and there is less appetite. Shenpi fatigue, red tongue and little moss, mostly due to deficiency of spleen, stomach, qi and yin. Yiwei Decoction and Sijunzi Decoction can be used to replenish qi and invigorate the spleen, nourish yin and stomach.
口辣
- 肺热壅盛: spicy tongue, dry nasopharynx, coughing and thick yellow phlegm, irritability and thirst, yellow urine,Red tongue, yellow coating, slippery pulse, etc. Sangju Decoction and Xiebai Powder can be used to reduce lung and heat.
- 胃火上炎: Spicy mouth, dry tongue, diminishes hunger, burning stomach, gum swelling and pain, dry stool, red tongue, yellow thick coating, pulse count, etc. Can choose to use Qingwei San to clear the stomach and relieve the fire.
- 脑火差旺: Spicy mouth accompanied by red face, dry mouth, bitter mouth, joy and anger, hypochondriac pain and swelling, dry stool, short red urine, yellow fur, pulse number. Longdan Xiegan Decoction can be used to reduce liver fire.
- 心火上炎: Mouth and tongue are broken, painful, often spicy in the mouth, short red urine, sore drenching, red and red tip of the tongue, and narrow pulse. You can use Dao Chi San to add flavor to clear the heart and reduce fire.
口盐
Salty mouth refers to not eating salty food, consciously salty in the mouth, or sometimes salty sputum is discharged, as if there are salt particles in the mouth. Most are caused by kidney deficiency, which is different from kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency.
- Kidney Yin Deficiency : if the mouth is salty, or a small amount of salty salivation, accompanied by dry throat, dry mouth, dizziness, tinnitus, waist and knees soreness, five upset Hot, restless night sleep, salty mouth due to kidney yin deficiency. Zhibai Dihuang Decoction can be used to replenish kidney yin, nourish yin and reduce fire.
- Kidney Yang Deficiency : if the mouth is salty, the whole body is tired, shortness of breath, fatigue, chills, weakness in the waist and knees, frequent urination at night, due to kidney yang deficiency and salty mouth. Jinkui Shenqi Pills and Fugui Bawei Pills can be used to warm the kidney yang.
In addition, there are abnormal tastes such as light mouth, bad breath, astringent mouth and sticky mouth.
- 口淡 means that the sense of taste in the mouth is diminished, and the mouth feels weak and cannot taste the taste of food. Mostly spleen and stomach qi deficiency.
- bad breath refers to the smell of smell in the mouth, consciously or heard by others. It can be seen in steaming on stomach fire, gastrointestinal food accumulation, yin deficiency and internal heat.
- Mouth astringency means that the patient feels astringent taste in the mouth, such as the symptoms of eating raw persimmons. It is caused by dryness and heat injuring body fluid, or heat in viscera.
- Mouth sticky refers to the symptoms of the patient's consciously sticky mouth. It is common in syndromes of phlegm-heat accumulation, damp-heat accumulating spleen and cold-dampness trapping spleen.
is for a variety of abnormal tastes, and clinically, it is necessary to treat symptoms based on syndrome differentiation. Professor Wei Wei believes that the spleen and stomach are the hub of the Qi mechanism, which is essential for the balance of the human body. In clinical practice, the patient's clinical manifestations including dry mouth and bitter taste abnormalities, combined with tongue coating and pulse conditions, are used to treat spleen and stomach diseases. . At the same time, pay attention to the influence of dietary emotions on patients' diseases, and instruct patients to quit smoking, alcohol, tea, pepper, raw cold stimulation and other foods that affect the spleen and stomach function, do not overeating, and eat seventy per meal. At the same time, pay attention to peace of mind, and a good mood is very important for physical and mental health.
