It is very embarrassing to have a peculiar smell in the mouth, but the pressure of modern people's life and the irregular diet can easily lead to the peculiar smell in the mouth. However, many people just think that the smell in the mouth is a personal hygiene problem, and some people think that it is an endocrine disorder. In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, the body fluid in the mouth is connected with the heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney and other organs, and there is a peculiar smell in the mouth. Often it is because of internal organs.

"The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, Lingshu, Four Seasons of Qi" records: "If the bile fluid leaks, the mouth will be bitter." It is also mentioned in "Plain Questions, Atrophy Theory": "If the liver qi is hot, the gallbladder will leak and the mouth will be bitter and the fascia will be dry." That is to say, bitterness in the mouth is mostly a symptom of heat, which is a manifestation of the internal invasion of the evil heat, especially the fire of the liver and gallbladder, and the upward reversal of gallbladder qi. In addition to bitterness in the mouth, patients with fever will also have symptoms such as dry mouth, yellow coating, liking cold drinks, oliguria and dark urine, and dry stool.

Soreness in the mouth, Western medicine believes that it is caused by excessive gastric acid secretion, which is common in gastritis, duodenal ulcer and other diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the root cause of sourness in the mouth is the disharmony between the liver and stomach, and the stagnation of heat in the liver and stomach, which leads to the overflow of liver fluid and hyperacidity in the stomach. If you only feel sore mouth occasionally, it is mostly because you have eaten food that is not easy to digest or fainted from eating, don't worry. If the mouth is often sour, accompanied by symptoms such as thick and greasy tongue coating, and a rancid smell when burping, it is mostly caused by a weak spleen and stomach. If the acid in the mouth is related to the overproduction of acid in the stomach, and there are symptoms such as redness of the tongue and pain in the flanks, it is most likely due to disharmony between the liver and stomach.

People who often taste sweet in the mouth have problems with the spleen and stomach. Most of them are signs of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach and overflowing of hot steam. A few have spleen deficiency, and the spleen is forced to overflow by the deficiency of fire. After a long time, it will develop into diabetes. There is also a record in the book: "Di Ri: 'If there is a disease in the mouth, what is the name of the disease? How can you get it?' Qi Bo said: 'This overflow of the five qi is also known as the spleen paralysis of the day. The essence, qi and body fluid are in the spleen, so it makes the mouth sweet. This is the source of fatness. This person must eat a lot of sweetness and fatness. Fatty people make people hot inside. Sweetness makes people full, so its qi It overflows and turns into diabetes." "Diabetes" is a symptom of diabetes. Modern medicine has also proven that sweet mouth is a signal of diabetes and digestive disorders. The sweetness in the mouth of diabetic patients is because the sugar content in the blood increases, and the sugar in the saliva increases accordingly. Dysfunction of the digestive system can cause abnormal secretion of various digestive enzymes. When the content of amylase in saliva increases, the mouth will be sweet.

Some people often feel that the mouth is bland and tasteless, and their appetite is lost, which is mostly a problem with the spleen and stomach. If it is accompanied by symptoms such as fullness of the stomach, thin stool, and thin pulse, it is most likely due to the weakness of the spleen and stomach, and the treatment should focus on strengthening the spleen and stomach. If it is accompanied by symptoms such as fatigue, soft stool, thick and greasy tongue coating, and does not like to drink water, it is most likely due to swollen stomach and dampness. The treatment should be mainly dry dampness and stomach.

Chinese medicine treats diseases with a holistic concept, and is good at discovering its pathological roots from external symptoms. Therefore, when a certain symptom occurs in the body, we must not simply eliminate the symptom, but find its root cause and treat it from the root. disease, so as not to allow disease to damage physical health in a more insidious way.