How to Treat Tongue Benign Tumors Through Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome Differentiation?

As follows:

1. Fire-toxin and Blood Stasis Type.

Main Symptoms: A lump on one side of the tongue, hard to the touch, or accompanied by ulcers, erosion, burning sensation, infection, sometimes drooling, bad breath, dryness, constipation, red tongue body or purple tongue, thin yellow moss on the tongue, thin and taut pulse.

Treatment: Clear heat, resolve blood stasis, detoxify, reduce swelling, and disperse the lump.

2. Heart and Spleen Fire Depression Type.

Main Symptoms: Thickened or hardened tongue, resembling beans, erosion, drooling, thirst, desire for alcohol, yellow urine, yellow tongue coating, rapid pulse.

Treatment: Clear the heart and drain the spleen, detoxify, and disperse stagnation.

3. Excessive Heat and Yin Deficiency Type.

Main Symptoms: Increased hardening of benign tongue tumors, invading the muscular layer or the floor of the mouth with concurrent infection, or post-radiation therapy oral mucosa erosion, dry oropharynx, heat sensation, constipation, redness, smooth and red-purple tongue, thin and taut pulse.

Treatment: Clear heat and drain fire, detoxify, and disperse the lump.

4. Deficiency of the Body and Blood with Blood Stasis and Toxin Accumulation Type.

Main Symptoms: Emaciated body, mental fatigue, tongue tumor as large as a lotus leaf or oral mucosa erosion, red tongue with little moss, thin and rapid pulse.

Treatment: Tonify Qi, nourish blood and Yin, detoxify, resolve blood stasis, and disperse the lump.