How to distinguish stomach heat from stomach cold

Patients with stomach cold may feel sudden abdominal pain, body fear of cold, tongue coating color white and other symptoms, and stomach cold is usually caused by eating cold, cold food, such as watermelon, persimmon, iced drinks, etc. While patients with stomach heat, may feel dry mouth, no desire to eat, increased body sweat, tongue coating color red and other phenomena, or accompanied by dry stool, bad breath. This is mostly caused by eating too much spicy, dry food and drinking too little water daily.