When you suddenly love to eat certain foods, it may be a natural response to the body’s instinctive needs, or the body’s lack of certain nutrients body signals; and when you feel a change in taste, may indicate that the body’s balance is broken. Pay close attention to these “taste” related warning signs to prevent problems before they occur. Mouth light: wind and cold Mouth light and tasteless, poor diet and appetite are mostly due to deficiency of cold in the spleen and stomach or spleen deficiency. Sometimes people with colds may also have a pale and tasteless mouth, because the external wind and cold evils have affected the function of the spleen. Greasy mouth: dampness traps the spleen The sticky and unpleasant mouth, mostly accompanied by thick and greasy tongue coating, is dampness traps the spleen. Excessive consumption of fatty, sweet and thick flavors (such as fatty meat, sugar, etc.) affects the digestive function of the spleen and stomach, which can also lead to a feeling of greasy mouth. When the mouth is sticky, you can eat more barley porridge to wake up the spleen. Sourness in the mouth: indigestion Because the taste of liver is sour, sourness in the mouth mostly reflects indigestion or liver gas offending the stomach. There is also a sour taste in the mouth caused by food accumulation, which can be cured by taking digestive drugs. Bitterness in the mouth: heat in the liver and gallbladder Mostly due to heat in the liver and gallbladder and fumigation of gallbladder qi. It is common in patients with acute inflammation, especially in those with liver and gallbladder disease. Bitter tea can be consumed to clear the heat and drain the fire. Salty mouth: long illness and kidney deficiency is a salty taste in the mouth, mostly seen in long illness and kidney deficiency. Available Jin Kui Kidney Qi Pill, Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan, Jin Lock Gu Jing Wan, etc. Fishy mouth: disease of the lung and internal organs Fishy mouth is not common, mostly fishy taste, often suggests lung disease, commonly in tuberculosis coughing blood or lung abscess, it is appropriate to go to the hospital for treatment. Spicy mouth: lung heat and stomach fire Spicy taste in the mouth, or numb and spicy tongue, is a combination of heat and pain sensation, mostly due to lung heat congestion or stomach fire upward attack. Patients with hypertension, neurosis and menopausal syndrome often have a spicy sensation in the mouth. Astringent mouth: bile and liver heat Mostly seen in patients with bile and liver heat or spleen and stomach failure. Severe neurosis or after night shift, astringent mouth may also occur due to reduced salivary gland secretion, and various cancers may also cause bitter taste in late stages. Bad Breath: Indigestion If there is bad breath in the mouth, this is caused by indigestion and lodged food in the stomach, and it is advisable to use the Plus Flavor Baohe Pill, or eat more hawthorn to help eliminate food. Bad breath is also common in people with fire in the stomach and canker sores in the mouth and gums. When the insulin secretion function of the pancreas is hindered, the elevation of human blood sugar, resulting in an increase in the amount of sugar in the saliva, seems to feel a sweet taste in the mouth. If you feel that your mouth smells good, you should be alert to whether you are suffering from diabetes and should go to the hospital for examination. Sweetness in the mouth: dampness and turbidity upward refers to a sweet taste in the mouth, also known as sweetness in the mouth, usually not paying attention to diet, damage to the spleen and stomach function, dampness and turbidity upward, resulting in a sweet and greasy mouth. Diabetic patients will feel sweetness in the mouth due to the increase of blood sugar. Can eat more bitter food, such as bitter gourd, dandelion, or use Zeilan, pelargonium tea drink to dry dampness and turbidity.