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  2. Unpleasant taste in mouth

Unpleasant taste in mouth

Incidence

In Chinese medicine: a bitter taste suggests heat, most commonly of the liver or gall bladder; a sweet pasty taste suggest damp heat in the spleen; foul taste points to liver or stomach heat; salty taste indicates kidney disharmony. Inability to distinguish tastes is usually due to deficient spleen qi.

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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Medicine » Teeth, mouth
  • Psychology » Sensory
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J2764
DOCID
12027640
D7NID
145353
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Oct 4, 2020