This situation should really be differentiated against an acute infection that may call for more aggressive intervention. If you're losing a whole lot of water and this is a situation that has only been going on for a day or two, you might want to check in with your MD just to make sure that nothing's getting out of hand. However, if this is a chronic condition, please keep reading. The damp heat tongue . Dampness produces a tongue coating that gets so thick you can't see the tongue body through it.
Heat colors the tongue coating a dull white or yellow color.
Often times, if the damp heat only exists in the intestines, you'll see that the tongue coating is limited to the rear third of the tongue. The rear third is the portion closest to the throat. If the tongue coating is spread out over the entire tongue then the patient problems of dampness in other organs as well. If this situation is associated with blood in the stools, you may have something a little more serious that may require Western medical intervention such as a cancer of the Large Intestine. If you're having chronic bloody stools, you might want to check in with your MD to rule this out as well.