Yellow tongue coating is stomach fire or liver fire

Yellow and greasy tongue coating may be caused by stomach fire, or liver fire.

Stomach fire refers to the pathological changes caused by excessive stomach heat and fire, mostly caused by improper diet, alcoholism, excessive eating, sweet and spicy taste, etc. Liver fire refers to a pathological phenomenon in which the fire of the liver meridian prevails and disturbs the liver, mostly caused by emotional failure, depression and fire, or internal invasion of heat. Yellow and greasy tongue coating usually indicates heat in the body, which may be caused by stomach fire or liver fire. Yellow and greasy tongue coating caused by stomach fire is usually accompanied by thirst, halitosis, constipation and other symptoms. The yellow and greasy tongue coating caused by liver fire is usually accompanied by headache, red eyes, irritability and other symptoms.

Therefore, it is necessary to comprehensively consider the symptoms, signs, tongue and pulse information of the patient during diagnosis to determine the cause and carry out targeted treatment.