Chinese-English Edition of Illustrations on TCM Tongue Diagnosis

Author: Chief Complier: Wang Yi-qin
Language: Chinese and English bilingual
ISBN/ISSN: 9787532389605
Published on: 2007-01
Hardcover

The tongue diagnosis is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) inspection and one of the TCM unique diagnostic methods. Tongue conditions are regarded as the window of physiological and pathological changes. Clinical practice has proved that tongue condition can provide important basis for clinical diagnosis. Taking the “tongue diagnosis” from the National Planned University Textbooks as the original reference, this book selects more than 200 full-color illustrations with explanations in both Chinese and English; introduces tongue inspection methods involving inspecting tongue proper, tongue coating and sublingual vessels; and combined more than 30 case reports of tongue diagnosis. Therefore the book makes reading difficult and ancient tongue diagnosis a vivid, direct and interesting job. Most pictures of this book are selected from systematic database of tongue conditions and have been approved by distinguished clinical TCM physicians, which made the picture collection normalized and clinical diagnosis standardized.

Introduction
1 The development history of tongue diagnosis
2 The outlines of tongue diagnosis
Chapter 1 The Normal Tongue and its Physiological Variations
1 The normal tongue
2 The physiological variations of the tongue
Chapter 2 The Observation of Tongue Proper
1 The tongue spirit
2 The tongue color
3 The tongue shape
4 The tongue motility
5 The sublingual veins
Chapter 3 The Observation of Tongue Coating
1 The proper of tongue coating
2 The color of tongue coating
Chapter 4 The Comprehensive Analysis of the Tongue Condition
1 The overall analysis on the tongue proper and tongue coating
2 The dynamic analysis on the tongue condition
Chapter 5 The Clinical Meaning and Application of Tongue Diagnosis
1 The clinical meaning of tongue diagnosis
2 The clinical application of tongue diagnosis