How does a Chinese medicine practitioner look at a patient?

Generally speaking, Chinese medicine practitioners look at the disease, mainly through the four diagnostic methods. The first step is to identify the nature of the disease, and then prescribe some Chinese medicine.

The Chinese medicine treatment of colds, take the pulse, look at the tongue, feel the back of the head and hands, ask the cough phlegm, phlegm, what color, listen to the sound of coughing to know whether it is a wind-heat cold or wind-cold cold.

Compare this to a person's obvious leg swelling and discomfort, put in front of the eyes of Western medicine, Western medicine with instruments and laboratory tests, while Chinese medicine through the pulse, with the finger pressure leg swelling rebound or depression, ask the patient urination and defecation, fear of cold or fear of heat, ask the patient's daily life, we will know whether the patient is a virtual or real.

Expanded

Chinese medicine to yin and yang and the five elements as the theoretical basis for the human body as a gas, shape, God's unity, through the "look, smell, ask and cut," the four diagnostic methods, explore the cause of the disease, the disease, the disease location, analyze the disease and the five organs and six bowels of the human body, The changes in the five viscera and six bowels, meridians and joints, qi, blood and fluid, judging the evil and positive, and then come up with the name of the disease, summarize the type of evidence, in order to identify the principle of treatment.

Development of "sweat, spit, down, and, warm, clear, tonic, eliminate" and other treatments, the use of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, massage, cupping, qigong, food therapy and other means of treatment, so that the human body to achieve the yin and yang harmony and recovery.