Research And Development Of The Comprehensive Analysis System Of Tongue And Pulse Examination

Diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis and differentiation of symptoms and signs is characteristic of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The traditional syndrome diagnosis depending on the four methods of diagnosis (observation, listening and smelling, inquiring, pulse feeling and palpation) has almost thousands of years history. The examination of tongue and pulse is the important evidence in differentiation. But limited by the level of ancient science and technology, the diagnosis of tongue and pulse were mainly from the clinical experience in the past dynasties. Many valuable methods of syndrome differentiation scattered in a plentiful ancient TCM works lack of concrete analytical data that prove experience is effective. Therefore, it is necessary to use the theory and method of the Evidence-based medicine and Clinical Epidemiology to solve this problem. We made analysis of a multi-focus and a great lot samples from the cases treated by TCM and which help us grasp the rule of tongue and pulse diagnosis on syndrome. The function of the analysis system of tongue and pulse examination is emphasis on the correlation of the tongue examination, the pulse examination and the type of the syndrome. This program not only can record a lot of cases treated by TCM, but also can provide of the query among the tongue examination, the pulse examination and the pattern type and show the correlation of them directly. So it can provide the basic data of the research of the syndrome type.Method:1. System programming: Making certain the function of the programme and programming.2. Data inputting: In order to make sure the authenticity of the cases, we collect about ten thousands of the cases treated by TCM from the famous doctors' books from Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasty to modern times. We unify the name of syndrome type based on the National standard. The tongue examination consists of tongue body and tongue fur. The name of pulses is the twenty-eight kind of pulses from the textbook of TCM Diagnosis and the ten strange pulses from the Shi Yi De Xiao Fang. 3. Programmer debugging.4. Statistics and analysis.ConclusionThe programme successfully shows the correlation of the tongue examination, the pulse examination and the syndrome type and easily operates. It provides a new way of research on syndrome diagnosis in TCM...