How Does The Chinese Medical Practitioner Determine What Is Out Of Balance?
Practitioners of Chinese medicine diagnose what is out of balance in the persons body by employing four basic examinations. The first is questioning about ones signs and symptoms, medical history and course of disease. The second is visually inspecting ones face, body, and especially ones tongue and its coating. The third is listening to ones voice and the sound of ones breathing as well as smelling any odors emanating from ones body or excretions. And the fourth is palpating various areas of the body and especially the pulse at both wrists. Using a combination of ones sighs and symptoms, tongue diagnosis, and pulse diagnosis, the practitioner can determine the pattern of disharmony which requires rebalancing.
