How to do a physical examination in Chinese medicine

  The Chinese medicine physical examination is to analyze the physical type, disease susceptibility, health status, environmental adaptability, psychological index, quality of life, and life cycle interpretation of Chinese medicine through four kinds of instruments: Chinese medicine physical identification instrument, Chinese medicine four-diagnosis instrument, twenty-five tone analyzer, and Chinese medicine evidence analyzer.  The TCM Four Diagnostic Instrument is based on the “looking, smelling, asking and cutting” of TCM to determine the patient’s physical condition. First of all, the experience rests the chin on a white instrument similar to an optometrist, and the camera inside takes pictures of the face and tongue. After the data analysis of the tongue and facial information. For example, the lightness and darkness of the face, whether the cheekbones are red, whether the eyes are dark, whether the tongue is red between the edges, whether there are bruises, the thickness, greasiness and putridity of the moss and the fatness and thinness of the tongue shape, whether there are teeth, pitting and cracks.  The pulse-taking is then completed by another electronic instrument that detects the pulse position, pulse rate, pulse rhythm, pulse force, tension, fluency and other information on the left and right wrists. “Of course, compared to the old Chinese medicine three finger pulse, the machine pulse only focus on one point, can only measure the power of the pulse, that is, Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis speaks of” floating, in, sinking “and no” inch, off, ruler “three finger pulse can The left hand corresponds to the heart, liver and kidney (kidney yin) meridians, while the right hand corresponds to the lung, spleen and vital gate (kidney yang), so it is more accurate.”  The last item is the consultation, in which the experiencer has to answer a questionnaire with hundreds of multiple-choice questions about body type, sleep, diet, second stool, medical history, and ailments. The system automatically identifies the body type by combining the facial color, tongue, pulse and questionnaire data. The results showed that the volunteer’s physique identification was Yang deficiency physique, and the TCM identification was spleen Yang deficiency with liver fire.  Spleen Yang deficiency refers to a physical condition in which the body’s Yang energy is insufficient to provide sufficient energy to the spleen, which in turn affects the spleen’s function of distributing nutrients to other internal organs and results in abdominal distension, loose stools, and lack of warmth in the extremities. The dark red tongue with little coating belongs to the type of internal heat and blood stasis. The stringy pulse belongs to the burning heat of liver fire, while the symptoms such as diarrhea belong to the deficiency of spleen yang.”  The doctor then printed out a 14-page physical health advice. This report included a TCM physical examination assessment report and a systematic individualized four-season regimen that included several sections on dietary regimen, meridian point regimen, exercise, foot bath regimen, and seventy-two hormone regimen. The diet recommends such health foods as garlic, grass carp, Chen ginger tea, lotus seeds spleen-healthy porridge, red dates with silkworm chrysalis, and other dietary contraindications.  The twenty-five tones identify the body type “yellow, worm, vegetarian, stone, ancient, jade, sky, bamboo, bright, and than.” After guidance, the experiencer reads these ten words into the twenty-five tone analyzer’s sound collector, and the instrument will measure the physical condition at this time, which is the five tones of Chinese medicine to identify disease.  This is actually a long-lost Chinese medicine diagnosis technique. In recent years, TCM diagnosis technology has been reorganized and rediscovered, through the instrument to collect sound information, analyze audio mapping, determine the twenty-five internal organs and meridians of the human body health status, and provide personalized meridian magnetic therapy dressing and diet, music, emotion and other (internal organs and meridians) health regulating program.  In Chinese medicine, the five organs are the spleen, lung, liver, heart and kidney, and the five tones are the basic tones of Chinese classical music – Gong, Shang, Jiao and Yu. According to the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, the five organs and the five tones correspond to the five elements of earth, gold, wood, fire and water. Each of the five tones is subdivided into five tones according to audio, for a total of 25 tones, each of which reflects the current functional state of the corresponding internal organs and meridians of the muscles. The abnormal heart function is manifested in the fire in the heart and liver, so the personality is impatient, while the dysfunction of the small intestine is reflected in the digestion and absorption, prone to loose stools and diarrhea symptoms. Therefore, this conclusion corroborates with the manifestation of Spleen-Yang deficiency with Liver-fire incandescence identified by the Four Diagnostic Instruments. We should avoid hot foods such as ginger, garlic and spicy food, and pay attention to self-regulation of emotions.  Afterwards, a report of the Five Organs’ Sagittal Discernment was released, which included meridians, diet, music, and emotional conditioning. According to the principle of “treating the right side of the disease on the left side”, the meridians were treated with magnetic therapy at the Yanggu point of the Sun and Small Intestine meridian on the left hand. According to the principle of “eating in moderation and harmonizing the five tastes”, we recommend eating sesame, flax and wheat for the five grains, and tomatoes, amaranth, bitter melon and seaweed for the five vegetables. The music is recommended for the health of the body, such as “Joy to the World” and “Hundred Birds to the Phoenix”.  Complementary to routine medical checkups Chinese medical checkups must be operated by people who are very experienced in Chinese medical theory and clinical practice, so that the effect is completely different from that of machines. The essence of TCM lies in discriminating and treating people differently, while instruments are, after all, instruments that cannot completely replace people. At this stage, the move is also helpless, which after all, intersects with modern technology, Chinese medical checkups need to be properly studied, not yet to the point of promotion.  And in the opinion of Western medical physical examination experts, take a Chinese medical physical examination report alone, and can not have a clear and complete understanding of health, Chinese medical physical examination is a useful supplement to Western medicine, is still being explored. The four diagnostic instruments of Chinese medicine physical examination, twenty-five sound identification, these are from another dimension of health to do interpretation, can be used as a supplement to the regular health examination, but can not be used as the mainstream, “we now see the doctor is still dominated by Western medicine, if the patient takes a Chinese medicine physical examination report to see a doctor, may be Western medicine experts can not understand.”  Western medical examination also has limitations, any disease early is not detected by medical instruments. The concept of TCM physical examination is ‘treating the untreated disease’, which is also part of health management, so in this sense, TCM physical examination is a useful supplement, which can be somewhat detected in the early stage of disease, the stage of treating the untreated disease. However, it would be more instructive if the TCM physical examination report could be linked to which Western medical diseases.”