| Alopecia seborrheica was called male pattern alopecia or androgenetic alopecia in western medicine. It is a common and frequently occurring illness in dermatology and hard to be cured. Modern medicine usually considers that it is related to sexual hormone disequilibrium and sebaceous gland hypersecretion.Because it affects personal appearance and often gives much stress and psychological burden to patients, therefore in recent years scientists attach extensive importance to its research and the relevant reports are common occurrence. However theoretically, viewed from the documents and information gathered, it is found that many different opinions about its cognition exist. Most information is only about the summary of clinical experience, therapeutic effect evaluation and comparative study between western and Chinese medicine. Therefore standardization of diagnostic criteria is not flawless and research on the aspects of epidemiology and syndrome manifestation of Chinese medicine is insufficient. In the perspective of Chinese medicine syndrome manifestation, now the research of it is rather complicated and there is no unified criteria in clinical differentiation of symptoms and signs. Accordingly, we abate the reliability of the research results and it is hard to evaluate the clinical therapeutic effects.This paper is divided into two parts, including theoretical research and clinical research. We researched the relevant questions about alopecia seborrheica and discussed its criteria in standardization of syndrome manifestation of Chinese medicine, epidemiologic feature for seborrhoeic alopecia as well as the correlation research between TCM syndrome and western medicine micro-index,questionaire.Theoretical ResearchIn this part we studied and researched the definition of alopecia seborrheica, standards of differential diagnosis of diseases, etiopathogenesis and pathogenesis, differentiation of symptoms and signs for classification of syndrome, therapy, antidiastole, the characteristics of clinical medication and so on from the perspective of Chinese and western medicine separately, trying hard to unscramble... |