In ancient times, doctors looked at the doctor and asked questions. Now, is it scientific to look and ask questions?

In ancient times, doctors always used the method of "seeing, listening and asking". Look, refer to it; To smell is to listen quietly; Ask; Refers to asking about symptoms; Cut; Feel the pulse. Together, it is called four consultations. "Looking, listening and asking" originated from the sixty-first difficulty in Difficult Classics. The earliest use of four-character conjunctions was in the ancient and modern medical system: "Looking, listening, asking and cutting are the guidelines of medicine." Now, it seems that this method is still applicable and scientific, and it is used by the majority of medical workers, especially Chinese medicine.

Audio-visual consultation was initiated by Bian Que, an imperial doctor during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He advocated: "those who know it can see its five colors and know its disease." Those who smell it, smell its five tones, are not sick. Those who ask and know, ask five flavors to know where the disease is. Those who cut the pulse, observe the mouth, see the actual situation, know the disease and know the viscera. As the saying goes, external knowledge is sacred and internal knowledge is God. "

As a method of diagnosing diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, inspection is to observe the development, complexion, tongue coating and expression of patients. Olfactory diagnosis includes two aspects: listening to sound and smelling. It is mainly to listen to the changes of the patient's language breath, such as the level, strength and turbidity, to distinguish the deficiency and excess of the disease, cold and heat. Inquiry refers to asking about symptoms. Through inquiry, we can know the patient's past history and family history, the cause of the disease, the course of the disease and the treatment, the main pain, conscious symptoms, eating preferences and so on. And make a comprehensive analysis to make a judgment; Pulse diagnosis refers to a method of touching and pressing the patient's body with hands to understand the condition. This is the fourth diagnosis.

Today, it is still of great significance to see, listen and ask more questions.