Diagnostic Essentials for Brandy Nose in Chinese medicine:
(1) It is often seen in the males and females after middle age or in the alcoholics.

(2) Skin lesions are mainly manifested by erythema, involving mostly the nose tip, nose wings, two cheeks and forehead. In a few cases, the nose is normal and the skin lesions only occur on the two cheeks and forehead.

(3) In accordance with the clinical symptoms, it can be divided into three patterns.
1) Erythema Pattern: The skin lesions are in diffuse wet red color, temporarily and intermittently at the beginning, and become more obvious after exposure to cold wind.
2) Papule Pattern: Based upon the wet red patches, diffuse acneform papules or small pustules can appear,with some papules in a size of soybean and in bard nature,but without acne.
3) Rhinophyma Pattern: It is seldom seen comparatively and mostly in those with long duration of the disease.

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