lit. look, smell and inquire (idiom); fig. to study a person's condition

Nowadays, Chinese medicine practitioners do not exclude any of the tests commonly used in Western medicine

The scope of the topic is too wide. Diagnosis and treatment are different. Looking, smelling, questioning and cutting is the outline of Chinese medicine diagnosis of disease, in which looking at the first place, that is to say, the doctor first of all through the observation of the patient's qi and color, including urine and feces color to perceive what disease the patient is suffering from. Wang is mainly to observe the color of the face and the color of the tongue to determine what disease, Wang diagnosis began when the author does not know, "magpie see Cai Huan Gong" may be a legend. But Hua Tuo in the Wang diagnosis is a good achievement, because this Wang diagnosis technology has always been orally transmitted, there is no written record, until the Qing Dynasty, a doctor called Wang Kendang only sorted out, there is a written record. Modern famous doctor Peng Jingshan's pop-up book "Eye Acupuncture Therapy for Observation and Recognition of Diseases" is the inheritance of this kind of diagnosis, according to Peng Jingshan, the accuracy rate of which reaches more than 80% by observing and recognizing diseases with the eyes. When I was a child, I met a young man who was very good at diagnosis, whether it was dizziness or lumbago, and he knew it when he looked at it, and there were a lot of people who asked for diagnosis. According to the introduction of his teacher is serving in a hospital in Beijing, a month a year back to Guangxi Wuzhou with apprentices, only with six students (at that time, traditional Chinese medicine heritage work done very well). Unfortunately, this set of diagnostic techniques has no complete written records, Peng Jingshan inheritance is only part of the eye, "Chinese diagnostic book" is also missing the content of this area, Chinese medicine inheritance is a long way to go.

If the diagnosis by looking is more than 80% accurate, then together with smelling, asking and cutting, we basically know what kind of disease it is.