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How to Drink Your Herbs & Take Your Chinese Medicine
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The Four Examinations of Traditional Chinese Medicine
1 - Looking - The doctor observes the patient. Body tone, gait, skin, facial expression, emotional tone, and mannerisms are noted. The doctor looks carefully at the tongue. The heart revealed at the tip, the kidneys at the root. The color and appearance of the tongue and tongue coating show what may be hidden; revealing hot from cold, damp from dry; and true from false.
2 - Listening -The doctor must be attentive to the patient's story and history, putting aside preconceptions. The doctor listens to the patient's voice, noting its volume and clarity, as well as manner of speaking and use of language.
3 - Smelling and tasting -The doctor may ask the about your body odors and tastes. Odors and tastes are clues. Strong tastes and odors or can be signs of heat, toxicity or digestive stagnation.
4 - Touching - The doctor will feel the pulse on both wrists. Besides noting its rate, rhythm, and overall strength, doctor may note the type of pulse. Texts classify the pulse into at least twenty-eight types. Some of the common types are wiry (feels tense, like a wire), thready (feels thin, like a thread), deep (strong pressure required to feel it), short (slow and irregular), slippery (feels like a bubble moving). By touching the patient in this way, the doctor senses something of the internal condition of the patient. The patient may not tell the whole truth, but the pulse never lies. The doctor may also touch the body. Local sensitivity can reveal what needs attention. The doctor feels for tone, temperature, sensitivity, accumulations, or other signs of abnormality
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A consultation consists of several e-mail exchanges resulting in an herbal prescription, treatment plan and possibly other suggestion. Consultations do not include the cost of herbs. In your first e-mail, briefly describe yourself. Mention your gender, age, occupations, symptoms (including how long you've had them for) and any Western diagnosis. List the medicines you use and occasions when you have been hospitalized for any reason. Attachments such as photos or videos are OK, but not necessary.
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