Teeth-marked Tongue Indicating Diseases due to Pathogenic Dampness / 国际中医中药杂志

This article reviewed many different opinions on teeth-marked tongue, and made a discuss on the differentiation of symptoms and signs based on clinical practice. We consider that the teeth-marked tongue indicates the diseases that are caused by pathogenic dampness, while the correlation between such diseases and spleen deficiency still needs study.

Study on relationship between the glossoscopy objectivised image and kidey-biopsy pathology type of patients with primary glomerulopathy / 中华中医药杂志

Objective :To investigate relationship between the glossoscopy objectivised image and kidey-biopsy pathology type of patients with primary glomerulopathy.Methods: The tongue image(including color clustering of tongue images and tongue shapes) of 66 patients with primary glomerulopathy were taken by Snakes Algorithm of Tongue Image Handling System and pathology diagnosis of kidney was also done in the same time,t-test was adopted to analyse the correlation of the glossoscopy objectivised image and kidey-biopsy pathology type of patients.Result: The result show that there are significant differences among tongue images of different pathology types(P

On Glossoscopy in Treatise on Thermy and Heat Pathogenic Diseases(Wenre Lun) / 中华中医药杂志

Objective: Treatise on Thermy and Heat Pathogenic Diseases(Wenre Lun)is a book to lay a foundation on the art of warm disease of traditional Chinese medicine.It has affluent glossoscopy contents,nevertheless glossoscopy not only to provide a diagnosis method of tongue demonstration.This article expounds the contribution of glossoscopy in Treatise on Thermy and Heat Pathogenic Diseases(Wenre Lun)to the development of TCM,from the questions educed by glossoscopy in terms of treatment based on differentiation of syndromes by wei,qi,ying,and xue,the standpoint of safeguarding the places that having not been suffering evils and the therapeutic methods of(opening)-dispersing and bitter-dispersing et al.

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

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.