Clinical observation on 213 cases of thick tongues in shape / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:Methods:To observe 213 cases of thick tongues in shape systematically by 30 kinds of thick tongues proposed in the Tongue Diagnostics and clinical observation.Results:After contrasting 213 patients with 200 cases of correlative disease,it has found that thick tongue is closely related to some syndromes and diseases,thus revealed that some diseases will cause blood stasis of superior vena cava,suffocating of the tongue lymph return-flow,increased power of the blood in the tongue tissue.Blood stasis in the tongue tissue,tissue edema and local exuded inflammatory pathological change in the tongue induced by the motion and sensory disturbance of the tongue muscle and nerve will lead to increased size and thickness of the tongue.Conclusion:The methods and data adopted in this paper provide significant reference in future study of tongue shape.