| Objective:To explore the characteristics of tongue picture and main and collateral channels in patients with natural nasopharynx cancer.Method:Study on tongue picture:40 untreated patients with natural nasopharynx cancer were chosen. There were 22 cases of males and 18 cases of females with the youngest being 24 and oldest being 70. The average age was 53.7. Eighty people after physical examination were chosen as control group. There were 37 cases of males and 43 cases of females with the youngest being 22 and oldest 65. The average age was 51.2. The tongue picture was taken by using Nikon D70 (pixel of 8 million) in the natural light. The patients were in resting state. Tongue picture was taken respectively under the pattern of automatic and manual white balance by sticking out tongue naturally. Reddish tongue was in normal tongue picture and abnormal tongue picture included:light white tongue was virtual image; red tongue was hot image and dark purple tongue was stasis image. Study on main and collateral channels:30 cases of nasopharynx cancer. They were natural patients without treatment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as operation etc. There were 20 cases of males and 10 cases of females with the average age of 41.0±10.45. There were 20 cases of nasopharyngitis with 8 cases of males and 12 cases of females at the average age of 40.20 ±10.60. The third generation of DMS TCM channel detector was utilized to carry out detection on patients’specific five shu point and twelve meridians. Meridian energy was used for measuring deficiency and excess of various meridians. The bar graph that was over H2 was defined as confirmation; the bar graph that lay between H1 and H2 was defined as partial confirmation; the bar graph that was lower than L2 was defined as deficiency; and the bar graph that lay between L1 and L2 was defined as partial deficiency. Confirmation group included confirmation and partial confirmation; deficiency group included deficiency and partial deficiency. Those that lay between H1 and L1 were normal.Result:There was obvious difference between tongue picture of nasopharynx cancer and that of people after physical examination. Abnormal tongue picture of nasopharynx cancer was 70%(28/40). Abnormal tongue picture of people after physical examination was 31.25%(25/80), the comparison of constituent ratio between two groups had significant difference (x2=16.102, P=0.00<0.01). Comparing reddish tongues in the two groups, nasopharynx cancer was 16/40 and healthy people were 3/80. The comparison of constituent ratio between two groups had significant difference (x2=26.07, P=0.00<0.01). Comparing red tongues in the two groups, nasopharynx cancer was 16/40 and healthy people were 20/80. The comparison of constituent ratio between two groups had no significant difference (x2=0.37, P=0.543>0.05). Comparing purple tongues in the two groups, nasopharynx cancer was 4/40 and healthy people were 2/80. The comparison of constituent ratio between two groups had no significant difference (x2=3.132, P=0.077>0.05).The meridian examination result of nasopharynx cancer and nasopharyngitis showed that deficiency of nasopharynx cancer mostly appeared in liver meridian, triple energizer meridian and large intestine meridian. The deficiency of liver meridian appearing in nasopharynx cancer was 7/60, while the deficiency of liver meridian appearing in nasopharyngitis was 0/40, x2=4.962, P=0.026 <0.05; the deficiency of triple energizer meridian appearing in nasopharynx cancer was 44/60, while the deficiency of triple energizer meridian appearing in nasopharyngitis was 12/40, x2=18.643, P=0.000<0.01; the deficiency of large intestine meridian appearing in nasopharynx cancer was 37/60, while the deficiency of large intestine meridian appearing in nasopharyngitis was 14/40, x2=10.433, P=0.001<0.01. Comparing nasopharynx cancer with nasopharyngitis, confirmation of nasopharynx cancer mostly appeared in spleen meridian, stomach meridian and kidney meridian. The confirmation of spleen meridian appearing in nasopharynx cancer was 24/60, while the confirmation of spleen meridian appearing in nasopharyngitis was 6/40, x2=8.046, P=0.005< 0.01; the confirmation of stomach meridian appearing in nasopharynx cancer was 11/60, while the confirmation of stomach meridian appearing in nasopharyngitis was 2/40, x2=8.132, P=0.004<0.01; the confirmation of kidney meridian appearing in nasopharynx cancer was 10/60, while the confirmation of kidney meridian appearing in nasopharyngitis was 0/40, x2=7.326, P=0.007<0.01.Conclusion:The abnormal pathological tongue picture of patients with natural nasopharynx cancer is mostly shown in the form of light white virtual image. As for meridians of patients with nasopharynx cancer, deficiency mostly appears in liver meridian, triple energizer meridian and large intestine meridian, while confirmation mostly appears in spleen meridian, stomach meridian and kidney meridian. |
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