Practical English-Chinese Library: Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Liu Jiayi, Sun Yingjie, Liu Peilu
Publishing House of Shanghai College of TCM, 1990
Paperback, English and Chinese
ISBN 7810101250

Diagnosis in TCM is a general judgment about diseases and syndromes as well as state of health of the human body by collecting and analyzing clinical data on the basis of its diagnostic methods. TCM diagnostics is a discipline to study the basic theories, methods and techniques of diagnosis in TCM. With its substantial content, it is regarded as the foundation of every clinical branch of TCM. TCM diagnosis includes diagnostic methods and differentiation of syndromes. Diagnostic methods consist of interrogation, inspection, auscultation and olfaction, pulse-feeling and palpation. All these methods aim mainly at providing objective basis for differentiation of syndromes by collecting symptoms and signs from the patient. Differentiation of syndromes refers to the process in which analysis and inference are made on the basis of clinical materials acquired through various diagnostic methods to determine the type of a disease. Such modes of logical thinking as concept, inference and judgment are adopted in the differentiation of syndromes. The type of a disease is drawn from a large amount of perceptual materials. As a pathological generalization of a disease in its certain stage, syndromes in TCM reflect the law and nature of a disease, serving as a basis for TCM treatment. Therefore, they differ from symptoms.

Contents:

• Introduction - the conception of TCM diagnostics, diagnostic methods in TCM, the fundamentals of TCM diagnosis, the principles of TCM diagnosis
• Diagnostic Methods - interrogation, inspection, auscultation and olfaction, pulse taking and palpation
• Differentiation of syndromes - differentiating pathologic conditions in accordance with the eight principal syndromes, differentiation of syndromes according to the state of qi and blood, differentiation of syndromes according to pathologic changes of the viscera and their interrelations, differentiating syndromes of a febrile disease in accordance with the theory of the six channels, differentiating the development of an epidemic febrile disease by analyzing and studying conditions of the four syndromes