What Medication Should I Take for Bitter Taste in My Mouth After Waking Up in the Morning?
Abnormal taste in the mouth actually indicates that there is a problem with our body. For example, severe halitosis may be caused by indigestion in the stomach. If you feel bitter in your mouth when you wake up in the morning, it may be due to damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder or stomach heat. At this time, avoid greasy food, keep your diet light, and you can recover. You can also take medicine that clears heat and detoxifies, and benefits the gallbladder and clears stomach heat.
Damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder is a disease pattern referring to the accumulation of damp-heat pathogens in the liver and gallbladder. It is often caused by external damp-heat pathogens, excessive consumption of alcohol, overeating greasy, sweet, and spicy foods, resulting in the endogenous generation of dampness and its transformation into heat over time. Alternatively, it can be caused by dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, leading to the endogenous generation of dampness and heat, which obstructs the liver and gallbladder. The symptoms include distending pain and burning sensation in the rib area, abdominal distension, anorexia, bitter taste in the mouth, short and dark or yellow urine, irregular bowel movements, yellowing of the skin and eyes, enlarged and red tongue with thick, yellow, and greasy fur, and wiry pulse. The treatment principle is to clear and benefit the liver and gallbladder, and dispel damp-heat.
1. Headache, red eyes, pain in the rib area, bitter taste in the mouth, deafness, and ear swelling; or downward flow of damp-heat manifesting as swelling and itching in the genital area, muscle weakness, sweating in the genital area, cloudy urine, and damp-heat symptoms in women. The treatment principle is to purge the fire in the liver and gallbladder and clear the lower burner's damp-heat. The main formula is modified Longdan Xiegan Decoction, including herbs such as gentiana, gardenia, scutellaria, bupleurum, mutong, plantago, alisma, radix rehmanniae, angelica sinensis, and licorice. The herbs are decocted in water, and 200-300 ml of the decoction is taken daily in 1-2 doses, warmed.
If vomiting occurs, add bamboo shavings, coptis, and pinellia. If bleeding occurs, add moutan cortex and rubia cordifolia. If there is scrotal eczema, testicular pain, or yellow and foul-smelling discharge, add kochia scoparia, corktree bark, smilax glabra, and honeysuckle. If there is frequent and painful urination, or even difficulty in passing urine, add talc and agilawood.
2. Damp-heat jaundice symptoms include feverishness, yellow body, face, and limbs resembling orange color, dark and short urine, constipation (or difficult bowel movements), slight abdominal distension, thirst, chest tightness, irritability, sweating on the head but not elsewhere, yellow and greasy tongue fur, and slippery and rapid pulse. The treatment principle is to dispel heat, benefit dampness, and resolve jaundice. The main formula is modified Yinchenhao Decoction, including herbs such as capillaris, gardenia, plantago, poria cocos, talc, forsythia, and red paeony root. The herbs are decocted in water, and 200-300 ml of the decoction is taken daily in 1-2 doses, warmed.
If jaundice deepens, drowsiness, or coma occurs, it is advisable to administer or nasally feed medicine such as Zhibao Dan, Angong Niuhuang Pill, or Zixue Dan. 3. Damp-heat obstructing the liver and gallbladder symptoms include alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib area, persistent vomiting, slight annoyance, hardness and fullness in the epigastrium, or pain and fullness in the epigastrium, constipation or diarrhea with heat in the rib area, yellow tongue fur, and wiry and forceful pulse.
The treatment principle is to harmonize the Shaoyang aspect, purge heat, and resolve constipation. The main formula is modified Dachaihu Decoction, including herbs such as bupleurum, fructus aurantii, magnolia officinalis, scutellaria, pinellia, radix and rhizoma rhei, and
