Yellow and greasy tongue coating is mostly caused by dampness-heat, phlegm-heat, food accumulation and heat (internal heat caused by long-term accumulation of food), etc. The main manifestations are abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, yellow sputum, and so on. Commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines include Huangbai capsule, Chuanbei Pei Pa Koa syrup, Citrus Aurantium Pill, Mu Xiang Penang Pill, etc. It is recommended that patients follow the doctor’s instructions to standardize the treatment.
1. Huangbai capsule: mainly composed of Huangbai, with the efficacy of clearing heat and drying dampness, removing fire and vapor, detoxifying boils, mainly used for damp-heat diarrhea (diarrhea caused by feeling damp-heat evil), jaundice, bandhgai, foot fungus, bone vapor and laborious heat, night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, and waking up and stopping the sweating), spermatorrhea, sores and swollen poisons, eczema, itching and other diseases. This medicine should not be taken for a long time or in excess.
2. Chuanbei Pei Pei Pa Koa Syrup: composed of Platycodon grandiflorus, Pei Pa Koa Leaf, Menthol, etc. It has the function of clearing away heat and promoting the lungs, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for patients with phlegm-heat internalization resulting in yellowish and greasy tongue, dry throat, cough, thick and yellowish phlegm. Patients with wind-cold flu should not take this medicine, and should not take tonic Chinese medicine at the same time.
3. Citrus Aurantium Pill: composed of Citrus Aurantium, Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Polygonati, Scutellaria Baicalensis, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Poria, Ze Xie Diarrhea and Liuxinqu, it can eliminate accumulation and stagnation, clearing dampness-heat, and it is often used in the treatment of yellowish greasy tongue, constipation of stools, and loss of appetite caused by heat and dampness internal obstruction of food accumulation.
In addition, yellowish tongue can also be used to compound fresh bamboo leech liquid, wood betel nut pill and other proprietary Chinese medicines, but need to be a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the diagnosis and treatment to guide the use of medication, the patient can not blindly take on their own, so as not to delay the condition.