Looking, listening and asking are terms of traditional Chinese medicine, collectively referred to as four diagnoses. It originated from Sixty-one Difficult Classics written by Bian Que during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Bian Que applied the comprehensive diagnostic technology of traditional Chinese medicine to the diagnosis of diseases, that is, the four diagnoses summarized by traditional Chinese medicine later: looking, smelling, asking and pulse.

At that time, Bian Que told them to look at the color, listen to the sound, write the shadow and feel the pulse. He is good at looking at the color, judging the disease and its course evolution and prognosis by looking at the color. Bian Que is good at internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, five sense organs and other disciplines, and is known as the originator of medicine by applying acupuncture, acupuncture, massage, decoction and blanching to treat diseases.

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Diagnostic method:

1, Consultation: Through consultation, you can know the past medical history and family history, the cause of the disease, the course of the disease and the treatment, the main pain, the symptoms of self-consciousness, the likes and dislikes of diet, etc.

2, odor diagnosis: including listening to sound and smelling. Mainly listening to the changes of the patient's language breath, such as high and low, strong and weak, turbid and urgent. In order to distinguish the deficiency and excess of diseases from cold and heat.

3. Consultation: It is to know the illness, onset time, cause, course of disease, past history, patient's pain, living habits, eating habits and other diseases by asking patients or their accompanying patients.

4. Pulse diagnosis: press the pulse of the posterior wrist radial artery with your fingers and observe the pulse changes.

reference data

Baidu Encyclopedia-Read, Smell and Ask

Baidu Encyclopedia-Bian Que