Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Tongue Progress.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Tongue Progress [Keywords:] Tongue Tongue is the main elements of traditional Chinese medicine clinic looking for the ancient physicians of the pie. TCM believes that the tongue is ‘heart-Miao, the stomach of the mirror, hot and sick of waiting exogenous’. Theoretical system of Chinese medicine tongue diagnosis and clinical treatment practice occupies a pivotal position. However, the main object by the great influence of various factors, coupled with the lack of quantitative description, which greatly affected the Tongue of the inherited and carried forward. With the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine and further clinical development, Tongue diagnosis is also put forward an objective-oriented, quantitative new requirements. Means of modern science and technology research Tongue principle, to enhance its clinical value to make it more objective-oriented and specific, which has become an inevitable trend of Tongue studies. A tongue microcirculation With the in-depth study of modern micro-circulation, using existing micro-cycle of sight can clearly see the tongue and the mushroom-shaped two kinds of filamentous shape of the nipple and its vascular distribution, in order to tongue microcirculation study has provided favorable conditions. Yip [1] observed that normal pink tongue tongue fungiform papillae of the microcirculation image clarity, capillary plexus was mostly dendritic configuration, capillary loop shape integrity, blood red, micro-blood flow faster, flow pattern was linear. Hung down tongue tongue in patients with micro-circulation is characterized by large diameter mushroom-shaped papillae, a pair of capillaries increase in the number of vascular loops, shaped more vascular plexus, blood red. Shaw et al [2] After 10 years of clinical patients and normal physical examination of more than 1,000 cases of tongue microcirculation of TCM Tongue contact with the tongue microcirculatio