What is looking, smelling, questioning and cutting known as

Looking, smelling, questioning and cutting are collectively known as the four diagnoses.

Looking means looking at the color of the skin, smelling means listening to the sound, asking means inquiring about the symptoms, and cutting means feeling the pulse. The earliest should be derived from the sixty-first difficulty of the Classic of Difficulties. The earliest use of the four-word association, it should be in the "Ancient and Modern Medical System": "look, smell, ask and cut four words, honestly for the program of medicine."

The "Four Diagnostic Methods" refers to the "Four Diagnostic Methods" proposed by Bian Magpie on the basis of summarizing the experience of his predecessors. These four diagnostic methods are still commonly used today, and are an important basis for the identification and treatment of Chinese medicine. The first four-word association of the Four Diagnostic Methods appeared in the Ancient and Modern Medical System: "The Four Diagnostic Methods of the Four Diagnostic Methods of the Four Diagnostic Methods of the Four Diagnostic Methods of the Four Diagnostic Methods of the Four Diagnostic Methods of the Four Diagnostic Methods of the Ancient and Modern Medical System:"

The four diagnostic characteristics of intuition and simplicity, in the range of the senses, direct access to information, the doctor immediately analyze and synthesize, and make timely judgments. The basic principles of the four diagnostic methods are based on the concepts of wholeness and constant motion, and are the specific application of the basic theories of yin and yang, five elements, hidden images, meridians and channels, and etiology of disease.

Bian Magpie, the inventor of the Four Diagnostic Methods

Bian Magpie (407 BC - 310 BC), surnamed Ji, Qin, name of slow, name of the Yue people, honored the name of Bian Magpie, the number of Lu doctor. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, he was a famous doctor, the first of the five ancient Chinese medical doctors, and was a native of Lu Yi, Qi (present-day Changqing, Shandong Province, or Zheng, Bohai County, present-day Renqiu, Hebei Province, China), and was known as one of the four most famous doctors of ancient China, along with Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, and Li Shizhen.

Bian Magpie laid the foundation of the traditional medical diagnostic method in his homeland. It is no wonder that Sima Qian praised him, saying, "Bianqi's words of medicine are the patriarch of prescription. Keeping the number of shrewd, later generations to repair (follow) the order, can not be easy."

He spent his whole life carefully summarizing the experience of his predecessors and folk, combining it with his own medical practice, and making outstanding contributions to the motherland's medicine in terms of diagnosis, pathology and treatment. The medical experience of Bianqi occupies an important position in the history of China's medicine and has a greater impact on the development of China's medicine.

Therefore, the medical profession has always honored Bian Magpie as the ancestor of China's ancient medicine, saying that he is the "Sage of Chinese medicine" and "the founder of ancient medicine." Fan Wenlan in the "Compendium of the General History of China" called him "the first person to summarize the experience".