| The Four Examinations of Traditional Chinese Medicine |
With a history of 2000 to 3000 years, the Four Examinations of Traditional Chinese Medicine has formed a unique system to diagnose and cure illness. When you go to a Chinese medicine practitioner’, whether for treatment of an illness, acute pain, or to begin a program of preventive care, the doctor will follow a system of evaluation and diagnosis that depends on observation and questioning. In order to begin to develop an accurate picture of your whole being, the Chinese medicine practitioner examines you, using the traditional Chinese method, called the Four Examinations: inquiring, looking, listening/smelling (these two seemingly different acts are grouped together-in Chinese they are the same word) and touching. This process of examination reveals which of the Eight Fundamental Patterns of disharmony are at work and what type of disharmony of the Essential Substances, Organ Systems and channels you may have.
The Four Examinations are sometimes done formally, but often the practitioner uses intuition and casual observation to create a vivid profile of a patient. Every gesture, word and attribute provides clues to a person’s health and well - being.
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