My mouth goes bone dry every night. Is that serious?

A dry mouth at night is one of the clearest examples of why a pattern is not a disease name.

Start with the boring causes, because they are the common ones: mouth-breathing and snoring (often with a stuffy nose or a sleep apnea clue), medications that dry secretions - antihistamines, some antidepressants, blood-pressure ones - blood sugar, and if your eyes are gritty too, an autoimmune cause worth a blood test. Chinese medicine describes this cluster as dryness, a shortage of the fluids that keep the mouth and throat moist overnight. That description is not a new diagnosis and should not replace the list above; it is a way of grouping what you notice. What people find useful from it is the surrounding detail: does the dryness worsen late night, is the tongue coating thin, do you also wake hot, do you prefer small sips of water to big gulps. Water by the bed, a humidifier if the room air is dry, and a two-week note of the pattern give any clinician - East or West - something to reason about.

Qicura reads a described symptom against this kind of material and returns a pattern in plain language with the sources named. It does not dispense: no herb quantities, no formula composition, no preparation instructions, and no needling technique - those are deliberate limits enforced on the server, not wording we soften for a page.

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