What should pregnant women eat if their tongue is thick and white?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that a thick, white coating on the tongue is a sign that something is wrong with the body. Generally speaking, our tongue coating is thin, white and moist. If a pregnant woman has a thick white tongue coating, it is likely caused by excessive coldness in the body. So, what should pregnant women with thick white tongue coating eat? In fact, if you want to drive away the cold, pregnant women can eat some brown sugar, red dates, red beans and other grains. Avoid eating cold foods such as seafood and fruits.

It is recommended to eat more yam, coix seed, poria cocos, white lentil, and red bean. You can eat more yam and coix seed porridge. You can take Jianpi Pills or Shenling Baizhu Powder for conditioning.

1. White tongue coating: generally indicates exterior syndrome and cold syndrome. A thin, white and moist tongue coating is a normal feature of a person's tongue. At the same time, a thin, white coating also indicates that the disease is on the surface of the body and has not penetrated into the interior. The tongue coating is thin, white and overly smooth, which is often seen in symptoms of superficial cold. The tongue coating is thin, white and dry, which indicates superficial heat or infection with dryness. A thick, dry white tongue coating indicates that dampness and turbidity turn into heat and damage body fluids. The tongue is covered with white fur and is not dry to the touch, which is called "powdery white fur" and indicates plague. The tongue coating is white and dry, which is called "rough and cracked tongue coating" and is often seen in febrile diseases. A pale tongue with a white and smooth coating indicates cold syndrome or cold-damp syndrome. The tongue coating is white, smooth and sticky, which is seen in the body with phlegm and dampness or dampness trapped in the spleen. The tongue coating is white, slippery and rotten, which indicates heat accumulation in the stomach. If the tongue coating is white like snowflakes and dry, it is called "snowflake tongue coating", which indicates a cold spleen. If the tongue and mouth are covered with raw cloth, moldy coating, or erosion spots, it is a dangerous sign of stomach qi deficiency and impending extinction of internal organs.

2. Yellow tongue coating: Yellow tongue coating indicates internal heat syndrome. If the tongue coating is thin, yellow and dry, it means that the internal heat is excessive and the body fluids are damaged. The tongue coating is yellow, dry and prickly, and there are cracks on the tongue, which indicates that the internal heat is extremely severe, the body fluids are severely damaged, and the internal organs are extremely hot. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, which is usually caused by phlegm heat, food accumulation or internal damp heat. The tongue coating is yellow, smooth and moist, which is a sign of yang deficiency.

3. Gray tongue coating: mainly indicates internal symptoms. The tongue coating is thin and smooth, which is mostly caused by internal obstruction of cold and dampness, or stagnation of phlegm and fluid. Gray and dry tongue coating indicates fever or yin deficiency and excessive fire.

4. Black tongue coating: Black tongue coating is mostly transformed from yellow tongue coating or gray tongue coating, indicating that the condition is extremely serious. Black and dry tongue coating indicates excessive heat and deficiency of body fluid. The tongue tip has black and dry coating, which indicates excessive heart fire. The tongue coating is black and smooth, indicating extreme yang deficiency and yin cold.