Strawberry moss should refer to strawberry tongue. In Chinese medicine, it is generally considered to be a phenomenon of evil heat and injury to the yin, but also suggests that it is scarlet fever, which belongs to the category of Chinese medicine, such as “rotting throat cholera”.
Strawberry tongue is a specific Chinese medicine tongue, also known as Yangmei tongue, refers to the tongue body color red, tongue papillae protruding like awn thorns, tongue surface less moss or even no moss. It belongs to the Chinese medicine of evil poison internal burning, heart fire inflammation, heat consumption of yin and fluids.
Strawberry tongue is also a special sign of scarlet fever. In addition to strawberry tongue, there are other symptoms such as history of exposure to scarlet fever, sore throat, fever, enlarged lymph nodes, and generalized rash, etc. It is important to go to the pediatrician for treatment of the above symptoms in a timely manner.
If strawberry tongue belongs to scarlet fever’s toxic blazing qi camp evidence (evil poison blazing, burnt qi, internal compression of camp blood), the treatment should be clearing qi and cooling camp, diarrhea and detoxification. The main formula is to cool the camp and clear the qi soup plus subtractions. Commonly used drugs include water horn, red peony, mudanpi, gypsum, yellow dock, scutellaria baicalensis, forsythia, gardenia, dioica, dendrobium, rehmannia, xuan shen, etc. The adverse effects of the above formula are not known. The adverse effects of the above formulas are not clear.
Strawberry tongue as a clinical symptom, its specific treatment should also be combined with the patient’s overall symptoms, according to the cause of the disease, the mechanism of the disease, the location of the disease comprehensive diagnosis and treatment. It is recommended to consult the doctor in time to identify the cause of the disease and standardize the treatment.