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| Analysis of tongue picture in 160 patients with chronic eczema |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2015.01.05 |
| Key Words
chronic eczema;instrument for collecting tongue picture;tongue picture;spleen deficiency with dampness retention;blood deficiency and wind-dry |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | YE Zhi-hua | School of Chinese Medicine Engineering, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | ZHANG Yu-huan | Tianjin Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300120, China | | | JIANG Zhi-hao | School of Chinese Medicine Engineering, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | YU Zhi-feng | School of Chinese Medicine Engineering, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | ZHAO Jing | School of Chinese Medicine Engineering, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | LU Cheng | School of Chinese Medicine Engineering, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | WANG Xue-min | College of Precision Instrument & Opto-electronics Engineering of Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China | | | LU Xiao-zuo | School of Chinese Medicine Engineering, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | luxiaozuo9862@163.com |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] To explore the characteristics and mechanism of tongue picture of patients with chronic eczema for providing a reference for clinical diagnosis and treatment of chronic eczema. [Methods] The 160 patients with chronic eczema were divided into 2 groups according to the traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) syndromes differentiation. The 80 were in the group of spleen deficiency with dampness retention and 80 in the group of blood deficiency and wind-dry. The 80 healthy volunteers were taken as the control group. The Tongue picture collecting instrument and the clinical observation were applied to collect and analyze the tongue picture.[Results] The tongue pictures were analyzed from four parts: tongue color, tongue shape, fur color, and fur quality. Statistical results showed that the tongue shape, fur color and fur quality of patients with spleen deficiency and dampness retention were significantly different from that of control group. The tongue color, tongue shape, fur color and fur quality of patients with blood deficiency and wind-dry were significantly different from that of control group. The tongue color and fur color were significantly different between the patients of spleen deficiency with dampness retention and blood deficiency with and wind-dry. [Conclusion] The tongue pictures in patients of spleen deficiency with dampness retention and control group are significantly different. The tongue pictures of patients of different TCM syndrome types are significantly different. The results show that application of the tongue information has an important assistant effect in the diagnosis and syndrome differentiation of patients with chromic eczema and can also provide some objective basis for diagnosis syndrome differentiation of chromic eczema. |
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