Observation and analysis on appearance of tongue's texture of 5 535 healthy person / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To solve the ultimate problem of research on tongue's texture,that is the real appearance and development rules of tongue's texture on healthy person.This article is proposed to provide the references on feature recognition of creature and judgments on cases of tongue's texture.Methods:After taking the continuous,systematic and different ages samples of tongue's texture by three medical instruments and the multidirectional double smoothing dimension extraction algorithm of area of tongue's texture,the binary images of tongue's texture are extracted and stored in computer database of tongue's texture to analyze comprehensively and systematically.Results:Among the 5 535 healthy person,it can be divided into two groups,the number of one group which couldn't diagnose tongue's texture exactly with naked eyes(without any amplification)is about 1 074 accounted for 19.40%and the number of another group which could diagnose tongue's texture clearly with naked eyes and computers is about 4 464 accounted for 80.60%.There are 18 sorts according to the appearances of tongue's texture in which the number of straight tongue's texture is about 69.00%,the horizontal tongue's texture is about 18.54%, the oblique tongue's texture is about 11.48%and the other tongue's texture is about 0.99%.Conclusions:The tongue's texture of healthy person show appearances of regularity,straight,horizontal and oblique texture.From the development rules of tongue's texture on 30 continuous observing healthy person and among the 1 233 cases,these conclusions could be made that any kind of slightly imbalance of yin and yang or obstruction of entropy flow will lead to the changes of color,diaphragm,material being of tongue's texture.It will also change according to the patient's condition.