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Problems and prospects of current studies on the microecology of tongue coating

Tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) assesses the health by investigation of tongue coating. The science and technology of tongue coating analysis have become a significant issue for modernization of TCM. The relationship between microecology of tongue coating and TCM was relevant...

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Autores principales: Ye, Juan, Cai, Xueting, Cao, Peng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24597827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-9-9
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description Tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) assesses the health by investigation of tongue coating. The science and technology of tongue coating analysis have become a significant issue for modernization of TCM. The relationship between microecology of tongue coating and TCM was relevant to the syndrome differentiation in TCM, such as the cold/hot syndrome may exhibit different specific microbiota patterns in the tongue coating. This article provides a review on the microbiota research of tongue coating.
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spelling pubmed-39758632014-04-05 Problems and prospects of current studies on the microecology of tongue coating Ye, Juan Cai, Xueting Cao, Peng Chin Med Review Tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) assesses the health by investigation of tongue coating. The science and technology of tongue coating analysis have become a significant issue for modernization of TCM. The relationship between microecology of tongue coating and TCM was relevant to the syndrome differentiation in TCM, such as the cold/hot syndrome may exhibit different specific microbiota patterns in the tongue coating. This article provides a review on the microbiota research of tongue coating. BioMed Central 2014-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3975863/ /pubmed/24597827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-9-9 Text en Copyright © 2014 Ye et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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title_short Problems and prospects of current studies on the microecology of tongue coating
title_sort problems and prospects of current studies on the microecology of tongue coating
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24597827
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