For dry mouth and white tongue, Chinese medicine practitioners consider that it is related to external wind-cold, surface heat of warm disease, and stagnation of food stagnation (stagnation of food in the stomach due to indigestion of food), which can be relieved by giving pungent-warming and cool-warming antidotes, antidotes to the surface, and antidiabetic and stagnation-inducing (to promote the digestion of food) medicines.
1. Pungent-warming and antiexpressive medicines: Usually taking Fangfeng, Guizhi, Ma Huang and Angelica dahurica as the main ingredients, they can provide obvious relief for the early stage of external wind-cold symptoms, such as whitish tongue coating, generalized symptoms of severe coldness (fear of coldness), and dryness of the mouth and tongue, and can be used in the form of Chinese patent medicines, such as Zheng Chaihu Drinking Pellets.
2. Pungent and cool antidepressants: mainly with forsythia, mint and honeysuckle as the main ingredients, can be used in the stage of surface heat of warm disease, such as dry mouth and tongue, white tongue coating, red tongue, etc., commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines are Yin Qiao San.
3. Food-eliminating and stagnation-inducing medicine: mainly taking malt, Shenqu, hawthorn and other food-eliminating and stagnation-inducing medicines as the main ingredients, it can be used for the white tongue coating, dry mouth, fullness of the chest and ribs (collectively known as the chest and ribs), and lack of desire for food and drink caused by the factors of stagnation of accumulated food and stagnation, and commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines such as Baohe Pills.
It is recommended that after the occurrence of dry mouth and white tongue, patients can combine the actual situation of the patient, follow the doctor’s instructions to choose to identify and treat, avoid blindly using drugs.