Waking up in the morning with a thick white tongue is generally caused by phlegm and dampness in the body, and is related to yang deficiency, spleen deficiency, and food accumulation.
When yang qi is deficient, it will lead to the body’s fluid transportation is not smooth, phlegm and dampness stop gathering, will lead to get up in the morning when the tongue coating white greasy thick situation, mostly accompanied by fear of cold limbs cold (fear of cold, cold limbs), urine clear and long, fatigue (mental fatigue, physical fatigue) and other symptoms.
The spleen is the main transporter (the spleen has the function of digesting food, absorbing food essence and water and transferring it to the whole body). When the spleen is deficient, the transporter is not functioning properly, water and liquid cannot be metabolized properly, and phlegm and dampness cannot be transported, which will lead to white and thick tongue coating when waking up in the morning, accompanied by loose stools (thin and unshaped feces), and fatigue, and other symptoms.
Dietary stagnation (poorly digested food stagnating in the stomach) is caused by dyspepsia due to gastrointestinal dysfunction, resulting in phlegm-dampness blockage, stagnation in the stomach and intestines, which will lead to white, greasy and heavy tongue coating when waking up in the morning, accompanied by gastric discomfort, foul-smelling stools and other symptoms.
If the symptoms of white, greasy and thick tongue coating occur, please consult a doctor in time to identify and treat the symptoms, and use medication under the doctor’s guidance.