Excluding eating milk, soymilk, egg yolk, peanuts, etc. to make the tongue coating white, thick or surface attached scum, etc., “sticky tongue coating” to consider phlegm (water metabolism disorders formed by the pathological products), dampness, accumulation of food and other conditions.
Tongue moss refers to a layer of moss scattered on the tongue surface, which is formed by the stomach digesting and absorbing food and drink upward cohesion on the tongue surface. Tongue coating often reflects the depth of the disease, the nature of the disease and evil, and the effect of treatment.
Tongue moss is white and greasy but not dry, feeling stuffy in the chest, mostly due to spleen deficiency and dampness obstructing the normal operation of qi; tongue moss is white and greasy and too much water, mostly due to phlegm in the body, cold, or dampness leading to the obstruction of yang qi operation in the body;
Sticky and greasy tongue coating, thick and bottomless, feeling sweet and greasy in the mouth, mostly due to dietary carelessness or too much food, resulting in the spleen and stomach transportation disorder, dampness and heat accumulation; thick and greasy yellow tongue coating, mostly due to the gathering of dampness for too long and generate heat.
Tongue diagnosis is only one of the four diagnostic methods of Chinese medicine (looking, smelling, questioning, and cutting), and should not be based on the clinical manifestation of “sticky tongue” alone, so it is recommended that a professional physician conducts an interview.