On the diagnostic signif icance of tongue tip
- VernacularTitle:舌尖主病探讨
- Author:
Kuanqi HE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Tongue inspection;
Tongue tip;
Diagnostic signif icance
- From:
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
2005;0(05):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Tongue inspection has a long history.It is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) diagnostic methods and plays a big role in TCM diagnostics.Inspection of tongue tip is an essential part of tongue inspection.This paper fi rstly discusses the correspondent viscera to tongue tip,subsequently probes into the clinical signifi cance of tongue tip inspection and fi nally points out that inspection of tongue tip should not only pay attentions to the local tongue-image changes of tongue tip but also to the synthetic analysis based on the tongue-image changes of both the tongue tip and the whole tongue body.The author thinks that the studies on the diagnostic signifi cance of tongue tip should make use of the research methods of literature investigation and clinical observation as well as those of modern clinical epidemiology and statistics.Probing into the diagnostic signifi cance of tongue tip is highly valuable to the in-depth research into tongue inspection.
