How Chinese medicine doctor diagnose the diseases?
Before providing the treatment, Chinese Medicine doctor must take an assessment of your body by using diagnostic techniques, a system that includes observations (facial complexion and expression, gait, skin color, tongue and etc.), smelling and listening (abnormal smell, speech, cough voice, breath sounds and etc.), questioning (such as chill and fever, perspiration, medical history, life-style and etc.), and pulse-taking. Chinese medicine doctor will summarize, analyze, and differentiate all the information he or she gets in order to determine the condition of patient??s yin-yang and qi (diagnosis). Among those mentioned above, tongue-observing and pulse-taking are the most difficult parts. There are 28 major categories of pulse, under which there are numerous subcategories, while there are 6 major categories of tongue appearance and numerous subcategories.
