How Do I Treat a Swollen Tongue?

name of the disease. Volume 4 of "Essays on the Sources of Diseases": "The heart is waiting for the tongue, nourishing the blood, suffering from injury, the blood deficiency is taken by the heat, and the spleen is swollen from under the tongue. If the heart and spleen are hot, the tongue will swell." Symptoms see swelling of the tongue and even hinder diet. Those due to blood deficiency should use Siwutang addition and subtraction. If the heart and spleen are caused by heat, use Sanhuangliangyansan addition and subtraction. Those who are caused by other reasons shall be examined and verified, and the treatment shall be differentiated.

Tongue swelling

Tongue swelling refers to the swelling of the tongue, or the combination of stiffness, pain, and severeness, which can enlarge the mouth and prevent diet, speech, and breathing.

Brief introduction of tongue swelling disease

name of the disease. Volume 4 of "Essays on the Sources of Diseases": "The heart is waiting for the tongue, nourishing the blood, suffering from injury, the blood deficiency is taken by the heat, and the spleen is swollen from under the tongue. If the heart and spleen are hot, the tongue will swell." Symptoms see swelling of the tongue and even hinder diet. Those due to blood deficiency should use Siwutang addition and subtraction. If the heart and spleen are caused by heat, use Sanhuangliangyansan addition and subtraction. Those who are caused by other reasons shall be examined and verified, and the treatment shall be differentiated.

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Causes of tongue swelling

There may be differences in exogenous wind cold, stagnation of heart meridian, hot heart and spleen, spleen deficiency and cold. ^[1]

Tongue examination

[Feeling] Fever and cold, pain in muscles throughout the body, boring in the mouth, not thinking about diet, cold pain in the abdomen, and throbbing heart.

[Observation] Tongue swelling and pain, slurred speech, diarrhea, and tight pulse. ^[1]

Tongue swelling self-treatment

[Recipe] 9 grams of golden bud grass, 9 grams of nepeta spike, 6 grams of ephedra, 6 grams of licorice root, 6 grams of pinellia, 9 grams of chrysanthemum, 12 grams of huhu, 15 grams of mulberry, 9 grams of black medicine , 3 slices of ginger. Take it orally. When swallowing, swallow slowly.

[Dietary therapy] 5 to 10 roots of onion, 50 grams of southern japonica rice, 3 slices of ginger, a little flavor.

Method and usage: Wash and chop the onion white, add 500ml of south japonica rice, cook into gruel, then put onion white and ginger, cook for a while, stop the fire and cover for serving. Take twice daily while hot. ^[1]