What is the Four Diagnoses of Chinese Medicine?
What is the Four Diagnoses of Chinese Medicine?
The four diagnoses of Chinese medicine refer to the four aspects of looking, smelling, questioning and cutting, which are from far and near.
"Look" means to see, when we see the patient, the first thing to look at his color, the state of vitality, the state of the body, the color of the skin, the color of the mouth and lips, the color of the eyes and the condition of the tongue moss, then this is the "look" diagnosis.
Next is the "smell" diagnosis, which consists of two aspects, one is the smell and the other is the sound. Smell is through the nose, smell the patient's body odor is different, whether it is a normal odor. Smell sound is to listen to whether the patient's voice is loud or low, whether there is coughing, and how the wheezing sounds.
The third diagnosis is "questioning", that is, face-to-face question-and-answer exchanges with the patient, through the inquiry and answer to understand the patient's deeper content of the situation, some of the usual feelings, pain and other uncomfortable places. Then
The fourth diagnosis is to touch the patient's body through finger cutting, to cut the pulse, to cut the pressure and pain, and so on. So this is the four diagnoses of Chinese medicine: looking, smelling, questioning and cutting.

The four diagnoses of Chinese medicine are the legendary look, smell, ask and cut.
Looking is to see and watch from head to toe, with form, color and spirit, as well as specific holographic diagnosis tongue diagnosis, hand diagnosis, eye and face diagnosis.
Smell, either by smelling special flavors or by listening to sounds, unique to the nose, mouth and stomach.
Ask, from head to toe, asked once, there is a ten-question song to summarize, in which eating, drinking, and drinking are few and far between.
Cutting, mainly, is the treatment of palpation diagnosis, which can be localized by feeling the lesion, and more often, the treatment of taking the pulse. Cutting the pulse to diagnose.
Diagnosis, that is, the method of diagnosis of disease in Chinese medicine, including the four aspects of looking, smelling, questioning and cutting, referred to as the "four diagnoses".
1, look diagnosis: is the doctor to use vision on the patient's God, color, shape, state and other general conditions, local performance, tongue, secretions and excretions of the color, quality, quantity, abnormal changes in the purpose of observation, in order to measure and know the internal organs of the lesions, to understand the condition of the diagnostic methods. Its main content is expected to the whole body, look at the local, look at the tongue, look at the discharge, look at the fingerprints of the child.
The diagnosis of observation occupies an important position in the four diagnostic methods. Because it is intuitive, quick and obtains a large amount of information, it is ranked as the first of the four diagnoses. Many important life information, such as the mental state, the strength and weakness of the body, the color of the face, and changes in the tongue, are obtained through vision.
2、Questioning: It is a method of diagnosis and examination in which the doctor makes purposeful inquiries about the patient or the person accompanying the patient in order to understand the condition of the patient. The content of questioning involves a wide range, mainly including general condition, past medical history, family history, onset and current symptoms.
The method of questioning, first of all, should be around the main complaint purposeful, step by step inquiry, both to focus on, but also exhaustive and comprehensive, if necessary, can be prompted to inspire, but to avoid suggesting sets of questions.
3, smell diagnosis: is through listening to the sound and smell to diagnose the disease method. Listening to the sound is to listen to the patient's language, breathing, coughing, coughing, belching and other kinds of sound; smell odor is to smell the patient's body issued by a variety of odors, as well as secretions, excreta and the smell of the sick room.
4, cut diagnosis: including pulse diagnosis and press diagnosis amount part, is the doctor with the finger on some parts of the patient's body to touch, feel, press, pressure, etc., by means of obtaining information on the condition of the method.


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The "Four Diagnoses" refers to the means of diagnosing diseases in Chinese medicine, i.e., the four methods of diagnosing diseases, namely, looking, smelling, questioning and cutting, which are the main methods of collecting clinical symptoms in Chinese medicine.
"Looking" means observing the patient's mental state, physical condition, skin and other parts of the body. "Smell" is to listen to the sounds made by the patient (speech, breathing, coughing, etc.), and then to smell the patient's odor (breathing, mouth, secretions, excretions, etc.). "Ask" is to communicate with the patient and inquire about the onset of the disease. "Cutting" is pulse taking and palpation. Among them, pulse diagnosis is the most important part of TCM.
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What do the four diagnoses of Chinese medicine refer to?
The Four Diagnoses of Chinese Medicine refer to the four diagnoses of looking, smelling, questioning and cutting
Examination: look at the patient's body, appearance, tongue, movement, etc.
Smell: This includes smelling the patient's odor and listening to the patient's voice.
Questioning: asking patients how they feel
Tangential diagnosis: cutting the pulse, pressing on certain areas, etc.
Determine the location and cause of the disease by combining the four diagnostic methods.
The four diagnoses of Chinese medicine is a process from internal change to external reaction, from material change to spiritual feedback. Its look, smell and ask are its external reaction and spiritual feedback, has its inherent shortcomings and defects, and pulse diagnosis is to examine the human body's qi and blood of this material basis, has an inherent advantage for the four diagnostics of the commander of the four diagnostics is the first. Pulse diagnosis is not an introduction to Chinese medicine.
Look, smell, ask, cut!
Look, smell, ask, cut.
lit. look, smell and inquire (idiom); fig. to study a person's condition
lit. look, smell and inquire (idiom); fig. to study a person's condition
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