Cheng Kai says: Cracks on the tongue

Today I talked about the crack on the tongue.

I see a crack on the tongue. What does it mean? Yin loss. But this crack at different positions on the tongue represents different viscera. Let us start with the following case.

"I am a lesbian, 58 years old this year, and I have a crack in the middle of my tongue, and it seems to have been a long time ago. I have had abdominal distension and farting in the past one to two years, eating and drinking water are normal. has a history of hereditary hypertension , I found high blood pressure when I was 50 years old, did not smoke or drink, and had been taking medicine for eight years. Blood pressure control was OK. Stool once every two to three days. Sometimes once a day. _Span3span

We saw that she gave some information, including 's age, gender, time of onset, and current main symptoms.

Let's analyze it slowly. First, has a crack on the tongue . In our tongue examination, it is a manifestation of Yin deficiency, that is, the human body has Yin and Yang, and Yin refers to the human body. The yin fluid, or material basis, is mainly represented by blood.Traveling inside the vessel is blood, and traveling outside the vessel is body fluid. For example, the lubricating fluid on the surface of our skin, tears, saliva, and the lubricating fluid in the joint cavity. There are also lubricating fluids on the fascia between our muscles and muscles, etc., which all belong to the category of yin fluid.

Then when the body's yin fluid is insufficient, small cracks are prone to appear on the tongue, and even some people's cracks are all over the tongue. When we make a clinical diagnosis, we should not only look at the degree of crack distribution on the tongue, but more importantly, look at the position of the crack distribution on the tongue . What does it mean if you only have one pattern? What do the two stripes represent? What does it mean to be distributed in front of the tongue? What does the middle of the tongue represent?

Because this patient did not send me a picture of the tongue picture, I cannot make an accurate judgment, but we will make a rough judgment based on the situation she described and its complications. For example, the first one is that the tongue cracks occurred a long time ago, so we infer that she had the phenomenon of dysfunction very early, so where exactly is the position of the dysfunction? And we saw that she said there was a crack in the middle of the tongue, according to the distribution of our tongue, if we divide the tongue into the upper third, the middle third, and the back third. Then the middle part of the tongue belongs to the spleen and stomach, where the digestion is located.

Then if there is a crack in the middle and midline of the tongue, then it is very obvious that the stomach is insufficient. If the crack is closer to the first third of the tongue, then it is likely to be a symptom of a disorder, which is a symptom caused by the acidic contents of the stomach flowing back into the esophagus, irritation and burning of the esophageal mucosa. At this time, patients are often accompanied by dry mouth, heavy breath, bitter mouth and even a burning sensation in the esophagus.

What must the patient have? Digestive problems. Even if the symptoms of reflux are a kind of progressive reflux, or concealed reflux, you can’t feel the kind of reflux or the kind of scorching, but it does exist.Or it appears from time to time. At this time, the patient will have abdominal distension, flatulence and flatulence, and eating is relatively normal. So what do we think caused it? Combined with the age of 58 years old, high blood pressure began to appear during this stage of menopause . Although she had a history of this hereditary hypertension, she did not have the onset of her own, and she did not develop it until she was fifty years old.

Based on her previous situation, the general judgment is likely to be that the liver and kidney yin deficiency occurs during menopause. The liver and kidney yin and liver yang are hyperactive, and they are prone to restlessness and upheaval. , There is high blood pressure. The upper punch, the upper disturbance and the clear orifice are high blood pressure. However, in this process, the fire of liver and gallbladder will be combined with upward reversal, and the performance of and lung-qi upward reversal caused by liver fire invading the stomach will cause burning of the esophagus.

So this is in line with the phenomenon of cracks in the middle of her tongue, so these symptoms we are together with each other, roughly speaking, it should be lack of liver yin , hyperactive liver yang. Of course, during the treatment, how can nourish the liver yin , and at the same time go to to clear the liver yang ?

By acupuncture point method, you can use the following two methods. Of course one is below and one is above. In the following method, we can use to rub or rub hot spring, Taixi method,Because all of this is attributed to the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian, we apply the method of rubbing heat on these acupuncture points of the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian to help nourish kidney yin.

We can also pinch Taichong again, it is foot Jueyin liver meridian nourishes the original liver yin, has a very good effect on the original liver yin At the same time, it also means pulling down.

In addition, we can also work with to pinch the ear tip or tap the ear tip alternately twice to three times a week. Then you can do it as often as you like, and do it several times a day, five to eight times, for three to five minutes each time. Use your fingernails to pinch the tip of the ear and forcefully, then there will be a radial pain, which is sometimes difficult to tolerate. Do it for ten seconds at a time and change the other side. Alternate left and right for three to five minutes. Strong14strong can help lower blood pressure.

These two methods can be used in combination. For the burning of our gastric cavity, one of the methods we have taught you many times is the beat of the Chize acupoint at our elbow socket. Hit Sha.