The Dichromatic Reflection Model describes the color of the reflected light as a mixture of light from surface reflection and body reflection. In this paper

an effective method using image processing for analyzing moisture of tongue fur based on the Dichromatic Reflection Model is introduced. The formation of the highlight areas and the influence of the characters of CCD camera to the formatted color image are studied here. The presented method gives a good result to the highlight areas detection and recognition. And the application of this method to analyse moisture of tongue fur is discussed.