The Application of TCM Thought of Preventive Treatment of Disease in Clinical Practice

Li, Huan

doi:10.2991/sser-17.2018.19

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“…[7][8][9] TCM holds that GLM is due largely to lifestyle, diet, emotional disturbance, the presence of exogenous evils (including wind, cold, summer-heat, dampness, dryness, and fire), and the disorder of Chong-Ren meridian. [10,11] The TCTD relies on the subjective opinion and experience-based inspection from experts. TCM practitioners probe the qi-blood and yin-yang disorders based on the features of the tongue bodies and coatings, the main criteria and vital parameters sensitively reflect the physiological and pathological conditions of the inter organs.…”

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Tongue features of patients with granulomatous lobular mastitis

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Traditional Chinese tongue diagnosis plays an irreplaceable role in disease diagnosis. This study aimed to describe the tongue characteristics of patients with granulomatous lobular mastitis (GLM). Forty GLM patients and 40 non-GLM controls were evaluated using the Traditional Chinese Medicine subjective clinical interpretation and a TDA-1 Tongue Diagnostic and Analysis system. The associations between the image features of the tongue body and coating and the profiling of immune-inflammatory parameters were analyzed. GLM patients were prone to a reddish tongue bodies with thick, white, and greasy coatings. Thick and greasy tongue coating features are risk factors for GLM. GLM patients had higher levels of white blood cells (WBC), platelets, C-reactive protein, interleukin-2, and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) than non-GLM controls (P < .05). Also, tongue coating contrast and entropy values were significantly correlated with WBC or TGF-β levels in GLM patients (r < −0.310 and P < .05). We demonstrated that the hot evil and phlegm-dampness constitutions are the main characteristics of GLM. This might provide a reference for GLM diagnosis.

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