Introduction:
When it has been present for some time without clearing spontaneously, bad breath is usually caused by bad teeth or catarrhal conditions of the nose, throat or sinuses, it may also indicate some kind of disorder of the gastrointestinal tract, such as mouth ulcers or an upset in the stomach, people who breath through the mouth or who are smokers often tend to suffer from halitosis. The breath may also smell unpleasant for a while after eating highly flavored or highly spiced food
Symptoms and Medicines:
- A bitter or putrid taste in the mouth, girls at puberty are particularly affected ulcers may develop on the gums –Aurum metalicum
- Tongue feels burnt and is dry and brown with a red shiny edge. Food tastes flat and bitter, breath is foul only liquids can be swallowed-Baptisia
- Breath smells mildly, mouth and tongue ulcers hurt when eating salty or sour foods, mouth feels hot, dry and tender –Borax
- Thick offensive, dry, green yellow crusts from on the back of the mouth, swallowing is difficult, breath is foul-Elaps corallinus
- Breath smells like urine, sour tasting belches, burning blisters are found on the tongue –Graphites
- Excessive salivation and saliva tastes metallic like copper, gums become spongy sore and bleed easily, tongue is yellow, flabby and thick and teeth indentations form on the sides of the tongue, breath has an offensive smell –Mercurius sol
- A dry mouth with no thirst that is worse in the morning, tongue is yellow or white and covered by a tenacious mucus, breath is offensive –Pulsatilla
- Bad breath comes from infected gums –Silica
- Breath is offensive and smells of onions, hot sour tasting belches, tongue is fissured and painful. A foul odor from the mouth from excessive mucus at the back of the throat-Sinapis nigra
- An offensive taste in the mouth –Spigelia
- Tongue is dry, red sore and shiny with a burning sensation at its tip breath feels cold and smells foul –Terebinthina
- Chronic nasal catarrh produces bad breath and a moldy taste, a loss of the sense of smell. –Teucrium marum
