舌尖主病探讨

舌诊历史悠久,是中医诊断方法的重要组成部分,在中医诊断学中具有举足轻重的作用。舌尖望诊,是舌诊必不可少的部分。首先论述了舌尖的脏腑分部,然后探讨了舌尖望诊的临床意义,最后指出舌尖望诊既要注重舌尖局部的舌象特征改变,也要和整个舌体的舌象特征改变结合起来分析。认为对舌尖主病的研究,既要有文献整理和临床观察的研究方法,又要有现代临床流行病学和统计学的研究方法。探讨舌尖主病,对深入研究舌诊具有重要的意义。

On the diagnostic significance of tongue tip

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.