Children with thick white tongue can be used to eliminate food, dampness and phlegm soup treatment, due to the differences in human constitution, there is no fastest effect between different soups, the focus is on the need to identify the evidence accurately.
Pediatric tongue coating thick white is not normal, traditional Chinese medicine tongue diagnosis that the normal tongue coating should be thin white moss. Thick white moss is a kind of abnormal tongue coating, mainly suggesting that food accumulation (indigestion of food and accumulation in the stomach), phlegm and dampness, etc., corresponding to the need to use food elimination, dampness and phlegm treatment of the soup.
If the tongue coating is thick and white due to food accumulation, and the children usually have the experience of overeating, they can take antinausea medicines such as hawthorn, malt, shenqiu, or the Chinese patent medicine Da Shanzha Pill, etc. The adverse effects and contraindications of this medicine are not clear at the moment.
If phlegm-dampness is caused by thick white tongue coating, and the child feels sleepy, weak, loose stools (thin and unformed stools), dullness (no appetite, reduced food intake) and other symptoms, you can take expectorant medicines to dispel dampness and resolve phlegm, such as Chen Pi, Poria, Coix Seed and other expectorant medicines, or Chinese patent medicines to dispel dampness and resolve phlegm, such as Er Chen Pill, and the adverse reactions and contraindications to the medicines are not yet clear.
The adverse effects and contraindications of this medicine are not clear yet. The above prescriptions should not be taken on one’s own, but should be selected by a Chinese medicine practitioner according to the actual situation after diagnosis.