[Analysis on tongue manifestations of 488 cases of Warm disease in Qing Dynasty].

488 cases of warm disease with tongue diagnosis picked up from 29 monographs providing materials of tongue diagnosis are sorted out of 51 monographs of medical records in the Qing Dynasty. Statistics and analysis were made on these 488 cases of tongue diagnoses, according to the classification of tongue manifestations in the Textbook of Diagnostics of Chinese Medicine for TCM schools of higher education. Results showed that, among all the cases, the recording rate of tongue fur was 65. 16% and was the highest one of the recording materials. The frequencies of different fur recorded from high to low were yellow, white and black. From 1850 to 1911 in the Qing Dynasty, occurrence rate of tongue coating had changed. Those of white, yellow and compound fur were increased. On the contrary, that of black fur was decreased. The recording rate of the color of tongue proper was 23. 16%, among which the proportions of red and crimson tongue were the highest. The recording rate of fur quality of fur was 37. 7%. From 1850 to 1911 in the Qing Dynasty, the recording rate of greasy fur reached the first place in fur quality. Tongue diagnosis was applied in warm- heat and damp-heat types of Warm Disease and pestilence.