To summarize the diagnostic approach of Chinese medicine in four words

The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis is made through the four diagnostic methods of "looking, smelling, questioning and cutting".

Chinese medicine was born in the primitive society, and the theory of Chinese medicine was basically formed during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and has been summarized and developed in the following generations. In addition, it has had a profound influence on the countries in the Chinese character culture circle, such as Japan's Han Fang Medicine, Korea's Korean Medicine, Korea's Goryeo Medicine, Vietnam's Eastern Medicine and so on, all of which are based on the development of Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine carries the experience and theoretical knowledge of the ancient Chinese people in fighting against diseases, and it is a medical theory system that has been gradually formed and developed through long-term medical practice under the guidance of ancient simple materialism and spontaneous dialectical thinking.

Chinese medicine takes yin and yang and the five elements as its theoretical foundation, regards the human body as the unity of gas, form and god, and through the method of "looking, smelling, questioning and cutting" and the four diagnostic methods, it explores the cause of the disease, the nature of the disease, its location, analyzes the mechanism of the disease and the changes of the five viscera and six bowels, the meridians and joints, and the qi, blood and fluids of the body, judges the evil and the positive and the growth of the disease, and then comes up with the name of the disease, and summarizes the type of the disease to identify the disease. Summarize the evidence type to identify the principle of treatment.

Expanded information:

The main features of traditional Chinese medicine are:

1, that people are an integral part of the natural world, consisting of the two major categories of Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang, and the two qi of the two opposing and interdependent, and at all times in the movement and change.

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2. In the normal physiological state, the two are in a dynamic equilibrium, and once this dynamic equilibrium is disrupted, it is presented as a pathological state.

3, and in the treatment of disease, correcting the imbalance of yin and yang is not to take an isolated static way of looking at the problem, more from a dynamic point of view, that is, emphasize the "constant view". That people and the natural world is a unified whole, that is, "the unity of heaven and man", "heaven and man accordingly".

Baidu Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Medicine