Can the white tongue be removed?

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2025-05-15 20:12:01 Views: 69 times

Tongue coating refers to a thin white and moist coating on the back of the tongue of a normal person called tongue coating. Tongue coating can not be scraped casually. It is an important content of tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine. After observing the texture and color of tongue coating, doctors can infer the deficiency and excess of the patient's viscera function, distinguish the strength of digestive function, and reflect the depth and nature of pathological changes. Tongue coating of a normal person should be thin white coating. If there is a problem in the body, the thickness and color of tongue coating will show changes. General tongue coating thick or greasy tips are wet and hot, if you scrape it yourself will affect the doctor's judgment. And often scraping the tongue coating, it will stimulate the taste buds, damage the tongue papilla, cause numbness on the back of the tongue, loss of taste, loss of appetite, and then affect health. In order to keep the mouth clean, you can take some simple ways to clean the tongue surface, including gently brushing the tongue surface with a special soft brush, but remember not to use hard board, sharp things to scrape the tongue coating.

Can the white tongue be removed?



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