Bad breath is mostly caused by indigestion. Bad breath is embarrassing and brings a lot of inconvenience to people's lives and work. In fact, bad breath can be relieved in daily life and diet. Here are a few easy food therapy recipes to get rid of bad breath. Let's uncover them together!
Causes of bad breath:
1. Stomach fire bad breath: Mostly caused by excessive heat invading the stomach. In addition to bad breath, symptoms include red face, body heat, thirst, drinking cold liquids, mouth ulcers, swollen and painful gums, pus and bleeding.
2. Food stagnation bad breath: Mostly caused by overeating and stagnation of food in the stomach. Symptoms include sour and foul-smelling breath, abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, belching, and bad breath.
3. Heat-phlegm bad breath: Mostly caused by heat-phlegm invading the lungs or long-standing heat-phlegm turning into pus and decay. In addition to bad breath, symptoms include coughing up thick phlegm or pus and blood, chest pain, and shortness of breath.
4. Deficiency-heat bad breath: Mostly caused by deficiency of yin leading to internal heat. In addition to bad breath, symptoms include dry nose, dry cough, dry stools, indicating deficiency of lung yin. When accompanied by restlessness, insomnia, muscle twitching, and dull nails, it indicates deficiency of liver yin and blood. When accompanied by sore and weak lower back and legs, nocturnal emission, dry throat, worsened at night, it indicates deficiency of kidney yin and hyperactivity of fire.
Food therapy recipes:
1. Salted fish head and tofu soup
Salted fish head has a sweet taste and has a cooling effect, while tofu is cool and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification. It is very effective for oral ulcers, swollen gums, bad breath, and constipation.
Ingredients: 1 salted fish head, several pieces of tofu, 1 slice of ginger.
Method: Wash all the ingredients. Slightly fry the salted fish head and ginger in a pot, then add them to the pot with an appropriate amount of water and boil for about half an hour. Add tofu and boil for another 20 minutes.
2. Fresh reed root porridge
This is specifically for bad breath caused by dry tongue or swollen gums.
Ingredients: 30g reed root, 50g rice.
Method: Wash the reed root and put it in a pot with an appropriate amount of water. Boil it on high heat for 15 minutes, then remove the residue and keep the juice. Add rice and cook it into porridge. Take 1 dose daily, preferably on an empty stomach in the morning. It takes about 5 doses to see results.
3. Cucumber porridge
This is specifically for liver fire or internal dampness causing bad breath.
Ingredients: 50g cucumber, 100g rice.
Method: Peel and slice the cucumber, then cook it with rice into porridge. Eat as desired.
Herbal tea
Drinking refreshing teas regularly is beneficial for reducing and treating bad breath. For example, floral tea, mint tea, etc., are all good natural teas for eliminating bad breath.
1. Osmanthus tea
Boil 3g of osmanthus with water, then use the boiling water to brew 5g of black tea. Drink it frequently. It has a good effect on treating bad breath.
2. Osmanthus and chrysanthemum tea
Take 6g of osmanthus and chrysanthemum each, then brew with boiling water. Drink it 2-3 times a day. This method is suitable for patients with bad breath caused by excessive heat in the stomach. It has a fragrant and stomach-clearing effect.
The four major hazards of bad breath
1. Affects personal mood
Psychological and physiological studies have shown that fresh breath has a real impact on the secretion function of the hypothalamus pituitary, and also has a direct impact on the nervous system. Experiments have shown that fresh breath can not only make people feel happy and confident but also enhance their judgment ability. It is hard to imagine that a person's day starts with bad breath, and it is difficult to get a satisfactory and efficient return on that day's work and life. This is also the reason why many people like to chew gum and other fragrant foods. However, these methods have a common defect: they can only temporarily relieve bad breath without targeting the root cause.
2. Affects personal appetite
Although some people are not very sensitive to their own bad breath, unconsciously, it has already affected their appetite and taste gland function.
3. Aggravates oral diseases
Surveys have shown that the incidence of oral diseases is at least 50 times higher in people with severe bad breath than in the general population.
4. Closely related to gastrointestinal diseases
Although the deep causes of the relationship between gastrointestinal diseases and bad breath have not been fully understood in the medical field at the beginning of this century, it has been discovered that there is a close relationship between bad breath and gastrointestinal diseases: the vast majority of people with bad breath also have gastrointestinal diseases. Accumulated feces in the intestines form stubborn fecal stones.
