Chinese Herbal Medicine Consultation 中醫藥諮詢 

中醫四診--望聞問切

Four ways of diagnosis

Look, Listen/Smell, Question and Take the pulse

The poem of ten examine questions

Firstly inquire for cold or heat while secondly inquire for sweating.

Thirdly for the head and body while fourthly ask for urine and stool. (excreta)

Fifthly ask for appetite/diet while sixthly ask for chest.

Seventhly inquire for hearing/ deafness.

Eighthly ask for polydipsia should to be identified.

Ninthly for the history of chronic illness and

Tenthly for the cause of disease.

Then dispense herbal medicine and observe for further chance variation.

Inquire the menstrual period for female patients in particular and the late menses, early menses, amenorrhea or bleeding all should be known.

Lastly some questions more about the pediatrics, the smallpox and measles will be diagnosed.

十問歌

一問寒熱二問汗，三問頭身四問便，

五問飲食六胸腹，七聾八渴俱當辨，

九問舊病十問因，再兼服藥參機變，

婦女尤必問經期，遲速閉崩皆可見，

再添片語告兒科，天花麻疹全占驗。