What’s the best way to cure bad breath?

　　When modern people go out to social places, in addition to dressing tastefully, fresh breath is also very important. Opening your mouth and blowing air like orchid will make people feel good; if it smells sour, it will make people shy away and stay away. Bad breath, also known as bad breath, refers to the odor emitted from cavities such as the mouth, nose, sinuses, and pharynx. Stubborn bad breath is often a sign of physical discomfort, which not only affects social interaction, but also casts a shadow over the mind.

　　Many people think that chewing gum or brushing your teeth is enough if you have bad breath. In fact, chewing gum and brushing can only relieve physiological halitosis, such as short-term halitosis caused by hunger, taking certain drugs, eating irritating foods such as onions and garlic, smoking, and after sleeping. If it is pathological halitosis, such as halitosis caused by oral, respiratory, and digestive tract diseases, it is difficult to solve it with chewing gum and brushing your teeth.

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen opens its mouth and its essence is in the lips, and bad breath often originates from the spleen and stomach. Stomach fire is strong, or food accumulates in the stomach, which becomes depressed and turns into fire, resulting in damage to the stomach yin, insufficient body fluids, steaming of the deficiency fire, and the turbid gas in the stomach is exhaled, causing bad breath. For people with mild halitosis, you can use a little patchouli, peppermint, white chrysanthemum, and green tea, and brew it in boiling water instead of tea. It has the aromatic effect of pleasing the spleen, promoting body fluids, quenching thirst, and reducing turbidity, and can bring fresh breath. Severe cases require TCM syndrome differentiation. Clinically, three types are common: strong stomach fire, stagnation of heat in the lungs and stomach, and gastrointestinal food accumulation.

　　People with strong stomach fire, in addition to bad breath, are often accompanied by thirst and cold drinks, sores and erosions on the mouth and tongue, or red and swollen gums, dry stools, short yellow urine, red tongue and yellow coating, etc. The treatment should be to clear the stomach and have diarrhea, and you can use Qingwei Powder, medicinal Coptis Rhizome, Cimicifuga, Radix Rehmanniae, Paewan Bark, Gypsum, Angelica, Agastache, Scutellaria baicalensis, and Licorice.

　　People with lung and stomach heat stagnation often have bad breath accompanied by dry nose, swollen and painful throat, yellow runny nose, less coating, and red tongue. The main treatment is to clear away heat and purge fire. Aloe vera decoction can be used. Medicinal aloe vera, licorice, Ophiopogon japonicus, mulberry branch, red peony root, Platycodon grandiflorum, mint, Schizonepeta, Gardenia nigra, and Xinyi.

　　People with gastrointestinal dyspepsia often have a sour taste in the mouth, accompanied by symptoms such as epigastric distension, belching, pantothenic acidosis, inability to eat, and thick and greasy coating. Treatment requires digestion and stomach rejuvenation, and Baohe pills, medicinal hawthorn, Shenqu, pinellia, Poria, forsythia, tangerine peel, radish seed, etc. can be used.