Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine1
The four diagnostic methods to observe and diagnose diseasesThe four diagnostic methods, named inspection, auscultation and olfaction , inquiry, and pulse-taking and palpation, refer to the four basic procedures used in diagnosing a disease, They are the presuppositions of correct differentiation and effective treatment in TCM、 (1)Inspection is the first diagnostic procedure by which the physician may observe the patient's vitality, complexion, physical build, head, neck, five sense organs, skin, tongue, external genitalia and anus on purpose so as to understand the condition of a disease、And it is the outward sign of the conditions of qi and blood, yin and yang,or the zang-fu organs、 (2)Another diagnostic method is auscultation and o