The Bio-Heat Transfer On The Mechanism Of The Tongue Inspection In Traditional Chinese Medicine

The mechanism of inspection in Traditional Chinese Medicine is explored from the point of view of thermal science, and what studied are the bio-heat transfer science that the utmost point possesses the China characteristic to the object takes the tongue as research. The bio-heat transfer science belong to the thermal physics engineering, and are the inter-science of heat and mass transfer science, biology, medical science and etc. The purpose of this research is to study the bio-heat transfer characteristic of tongue inspection mechanism in TCM, which include explore at the Traditional Chinese Medicine tongue and examines the heat transfer mechanism that the clinical aspect created different tongue nature or tongue colour by using the interdisplinary method; explore the relation between the clinical characteristic and the temperature field of tongue; compute the temperature field in tongue with numerical method; deduce out the mathematical model fit for the heat transfer specific property in the tongue on this foundation. The heat transfer of tongue comprises many complex physiology mechanisms of viscera, so go deep into to study certainly can makes the contribution to objective research in the tongue inspection, and more contribute to the bio-heat transfer development.The adoption of new and high technology and method is not only the measure of science research reliability but also the foundation of theoretical research going deep into again. On the base of present research situation and labor, taking many human and animal experiments (dog, pig), adopting many new technology and methods including measuring temperature distribution of the surface and bottom of tongue with Thermovision, measuring the blood perfusion rate with Doppler Blood Flow Meter (CBI-8000) and MP100 BIOPAC System at the same time, measuring the blood vessel distribution and diameter with medicine microscope and image software, the heat transfer processes of tongue is analyzed. After obtaining the oxygen content in artery and vein, the metabolic heat of tongue is calculated. This method can reflect objectively the metabolic heat in singularity tongue, which is the first used in the bio-heat transfer research at home. On the condition of getting many animal tongue parameters such as temperature, blood perfusion rate, metabolic rate and etc. and making clear the clinical tongue imaging, the 2D temperature field in special section of tongue is calculated by FEM (Finite Element Method). By studying on the relation between blood vessel configuration and heat transfer characteristic, the main factor and heat transfer mechanism that influence the temperature variation is explored.Through studying to find, the temperature on the surface of tongue has the close contact with " tongue nature " that the tongue inspection in Traditional Chinese Medical lays stress on, and the influence of parameters such as blood perfusion rate, blood oxygen content and the blood rheology of tongue etc chiefly because of to the temperature on the surface of tongue, and the influence to the tongue temperature of blood perfusion rate chiefly embodies in the level expanding of blood vessel in the tongue. By researching, the variational disciplinary in tongue temperature and blood perfusion rate is obtained, and the function which can describe the relation between blood perfusion rate and temperature is calculated, the meaning of which provided accurate biology parameters. This provides data to study blood perfusion rate characteristic in human tongue and build a bio-heat transfer model fitting for heat transfer in human tongue. The 37 pathology chips which are done under the condition of knowing the blood perfusion rate may reflect quantificationally the blood vessel state in the different cross and longitude section of tongue, which is very important to analyze the influence factor of blood vessel configuration to temperature field on the surface of tongue, and provide physics model to numerical calculation of 2D temperature field in special position of tongue. In thi...