凡手足部皮肤因各种原因而致皮肤干燥裂隙等情况,统称为手足皲裂。对手足皲裂是否为一种独立病目前有两种看法:一种认为手足皲裂不是一个独立病,只是一种继发性损害;一种看法则认为手足皲裂是独立病。我们同意后一种看法。因为:1.从祖国医学史来看我国古代很早就把下足皲裂作为一种独立病,如早在公元六世纪左右隋代巢元方的诸病源候总论中,就将之独立成“手足皲裂候”,认为“肌肉破也”,是冬时触冒风寒,手足破,故谓之皲裂。一六○四年明代申斗恒的外科启玄中,称之为 Where hand and foot skin due to various reasons, dry skin cracks, etc., collectively referred to as hand, foot and chapped. Whether opponents rift is an independent disease, there are currently two views: one is that hand-foot chapped is not an independent disease, but a secondary damage; one view is that hand-foot chapped is an independent disease. We agree with the latter view. Because: 1. From the history of the motherland medical history in ancient China put the lower limbs chapped as early as an independent disease, as early as the sixth century AD Sui Yuan Fang all sources of disease in the general theory, it will be independent “Hand, Foot and Staggered Crack”, that “broken muscle” is the touch of cold in winter, hand, foot and broken, so that the chapped. In 1640 the Ming Dynasty Shen Dou Heng surgical Kai Xuan, call it