Question 1: What is the cause of cleft tongue and how to treat it? Thank you! According to your symptoms, you think that the stomach yin is seriously injured and the tongue crack is caused by the loss of body fluid. It is recommended to go to Chinese medicine department for treatment, which can nourish yin, benefit the stomach and promote fluid production, and can be treated with Chinese medicine. Yiwei powder can be conditioned, the diet is mainly light, and spicy food is not allowed.

Question 2: What is the reason for a long crack in the middle of the tongue?

1, the atrophy of lingual mucosa exposes the longitudinal and transverse lines of lingual muscle, forming superficial cracks;

2. The lingual epithelium lost its normal structure, some flattened and fused, and some atrophied and fractured to form a deep fissure.

3. The tongue coating is thick and white with uneven distribution. Some have no tongue coating, bright red tongue color and many knife-shaped deep groove cracks on the tongue surface. The forms of cracks are often veins, brain rings, herringbone, Sichuan shape and tree fork.

Causes of cleft tongue:

1, congenital inheritance: five to one in ten thousand healthy people have congenital cleft tongue.

2. Consumable diseases: Cleft tongue is mostly caused by water-electrolyte imbalance, vitamin deficiency, diabetes, chronic gastroenteritis, liver cirrhosis and other chronic consumptive diseases due to fever and dehydration;

3. Poor oral hygiene: A large number of dental calculus, food residues, residual roots and crowns are also the main causes of cleft tongue.