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Title page Table of Contents Copyright page To the memory of my parents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Note on the translation of Chinese terms How to use this book Index of symptoms and signs LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS PART 1: DIAGNOSIS BY OBSERVATION

DIAGNOSIS BY OBSERVATION

INTRODUCTION

SECTION 1: OBSERVATION OF THE BODY, MIND AND COMPLEXION

OBSERVATION OF THE BODY, MIND AND COMPLEXION

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: OBSERVATION OF THE BODY SHAPE, PHYSIQUE AND DEMEANOUR

INTRODUCTION CLASSIFICATION OF BODY SHAPE ACCORDING TO YIN AND YANG CLASSIFICATION OF BODY SHAPE ACCORDING TO THE FIVE ELEMENTS CLASSIFICATION OF BODY SHAPE ACCORDING TO PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL INFLUENCES CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO BODY BUILD CLASSIFICATION OF BODY SHAPE ACCORDING TO PAIN AND DRUG TOLERANCE

Chapter 2: OBSERVATION OF THE MIND, SPIRIT AND EMOTIONS

INTRODUCTION THE THREE ASPECTS OF THE SPIRIT THE THREE CONDITIONS OF THE SPIRIT THE SPIRIT AND CONSTITUTION THE SPIRIT AND THE EMOTIONS

Chapter 3: OBSERVATION OF THE COMPLEXION COLOUR

INTRODUCTION DOMINANT AND GUEST COLOURS OBSERVATION OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF COMPLEXION COLOUR COMPLEXION COLOURS

Chapter 4: OBSERVATION OF BODY MOVEMENTS

HEAD FACE LIMBS AND BODY

SECTION 2: OBSERVATION OF PARTS OF THE BODY

OBSERVATION OF PARTS OF THE BODY

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 5: OBSERVATION OF HEAD, FACE AND HAIR

HEAD FACE HAIR

Chapter 6: OBSERVATION OF THE EYES

INTRODUCTION CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE EYES RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INTERNAL ORGANS AND THE EYES ASPECTS OF OBSERVATION OF THE EYES OBSERVATION OF PATHOLOGICAL SIGNS OF THE EYE

Chapter 7: OBSERVATION OF THE NOSE

INTRODUCTION CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE NOSE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE NOSE AND THE INTERNAL ORGANS ABNORMAL COLOUR SWOLLEN NOSE FLAPPING ALAE NASI (THE OUTSIDE OF THE NOSTRILS) DRY NOSTRILS NOSEBLEED POLYPS ULCERS ON THE NOSE PAPULES ON THE NOSE

Chapter 8: OBSERVATION OF LIPS MOUTH, PALATE, TEETH, GUMS AND PHILTRUM

CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE MOUTH AND LIPS LIPS MOUTH PALATE TEETH AND GUMS PHILTRUM

Chapter 9: OBSERVATION OF THE EARS

INTRODUCTION CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE EARS EAR SIZE DRY AND CONTRACTED HELIX SORES ON THE EAR WARTS ON THE EAR ABNORMAL COLOUR DISTENDED BLOOD VESSELS ON THE EAR EXCESSIVE WAX PRODUCTION DISCHARGE FROM THE EARS

Chapter 10: OBSERVATION OF THE THROAT AND NECK

CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE THROAT AND NECK THROAT NECK

Chapter 11: OBSERVATION OF THE BACK

CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE BACK ATROPHY OF THE MUSCLES ALONG THE SPINE RIGIDITY OF THE LOWER BACK SPINAL CURVE ABNORMALITIES SKIN SIGNS

Chapter 12: OBSERVATION OF WOMEN’S BREASTS

INTRODUCTION CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE BREASTS BREAST SIZE BREAST LUMPS NIPPLE ABNORMALITIES PEAU D’ORANGE SKIN

Chapter 13: OBSERVATION OF THE HEARTBEAT

INTRODUCTION HEARTBEAT DISPLACED DOWNWARDS HEARTBEAT DISPLACED UPWARDS HEARTBEAT DISPLACED TO THE LEFT HEARTBEAT DISPLACED TO THE RIGHT HEARTBEAT BELOW THE XYPHOID PROCESS

Chapter 14: OBSERVATION OF THE HANDS

INTRODUCTION ABNORMAL COLOUR VENULES ON THE THENAR EMINENCE ATROPHY OF THE THENAR EMINENCE ATROPHY OF THE MUSCLES OF THE DORSUM OF THE HANDS TREMOR OF THE HANDS TINEA (RINGWORM) THE FINGERS DEFORMED KNUCKLES THE PALMS

Chapter 15: OBSERVATION OF THE NAILS

INTRODUCTION SURFACE ABNORMALITIES TWISTED NAILS CURLING NAILS NAILS FALLING OFF ABNORMAL COLOUR LUNULAE CORRESPONDENCE OF NAILS TO ORGAN SYSTEMS

Chapter 16: OBSERVATION OF THE CHEST AND ABDOMEN

CHEST ABDOMEN

Chapter 17: OBSERVATION OF THE GENITALIA

CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE GENITALIA PUBIC HAIR PENIS SCROTUM VULVA AND VAGINA

Chapter 18: OBSERVATION OF THE FOUR LIMBS

INTRODUCTION ATROPHY OF THE FOUR LIMBS FLACCIDITY OF THE FOUR LIMBS RIGIDITY OF THE FOUR LIMBS PARALYSIS OF THE FOUR LIMBS LIMB MOVEMENTS OEDEMA OF THE FOUR LIMBS SWELLING OF THE JOINTS OF THE FOUR LIMBS

Chapter 19: OBSERVATION OF THE LEGS

LEG SIGNS GAIT

Chapter 20: OBSERVATION OF THE EXCRETIONS

INTRODUCTION SPUTUM NASAL DISCHARGE SWEAT STOOLS URINE MENSTRUAL BLOOD VAGINAL DISCHARGE

Chapter 21: OBSERVATION OF THE SKIN

INTRODUCTION THE SKIN AND THE INTERNAL ORGANS SKIN SIGNS SKIN DISEASES

Chapter 22: OBSERVATION IN CHILDREN

INTRODUCTION COMPLEXION ORIFICES BODY MOVEMENT SPINAL MUSCLES INDEX FINGER ROOT OF THE NOSE

SECTION 3: TONGUE DIAGNOSIS

TONGUE DIAGNOSIS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 23: TONGUE DIAGNOSIS

CONDITIONS FOR EXAMINING THE TONGUE AREAS OF THE TONGUE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TONGUE

Chapter 24: TONGUE-BODY COLOUR

TONGUE SPIRIT TONGUE-BODY COLOURS SUBLINGUAL VEINS

Chapter 25: TONGUE-BODY SHAPE

INTRODUCTION THIN SWOLLEN PARTIALLY SWOLLEN STIFF FLACCID LONG SHORT CRACKED DEVIATED MOVING QUIVERING TOOTHMARKED

Chapter 26: TONGUE COATING

PHYSIOLOGY OF TONGUE COATING CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TONGUE COATING PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF COATING COATING WITH OR WITHOUT ROOT COATING THICKNESS COATING DISTRIBUTION COATING MOISTURE COATING TEXTURE TONGUE COATING IN EXTERNAL DISEASES

Chapter 27: TONGUE IMAGES AND PATTERNS

QI-DEFICIENCY TONGUES YANG-DEFICIENCY TONGUES BLOOD-DEFICIENCY TONGUES YIN-DEFICIENCY TONGUES THE TONGUE IN PHLEGM AND DAMPNESS THE TONGUE IN HEAT THE TONGUE IN COLD THE TONGUE IN QI AND BLOOD STAGNATION THE TONGUE IN INTERNAL WIND THE TONGUE IN EXTERNAL INVASIONS OF WIND

PART 2: DIAGNOSIS BY INTERROGATION

DIAGNOSIS BY INTERROGATION

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 28: INTRODUCTION

NATURE OF DIAGNOSIS BY INTERROGATION NATURE OF “SYMPTOMS” IN CHINESE MEDICINE THE ART OF INTERROGATION: ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS TERMINOLOGY PROBLEMS IN INTERROGATION PATIENTS’ EXPRESSIONS PITFALLS TO AVOID IN INTERROGATION PROCEDURE FOR INTERROGATION TIME SCALE OF SYMPTOMS INTEGRATION OF INTERROGATION WITH OBSERVATION IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND INTERROGATION TONGUE AND PULSE DIAGNOSIS: INTEGRATION WITH INTERROGATION THE 10 TRADITIONAL QUESTIONS THE 16 QUESTIONS

Chapter 29: PAIN

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK AREA OF PAIN NATURE OF PAIN TIME OF PAIN FACTORS AFFECTING PAIN ORGAN VERSUS CHANNEL PAIN

Chapter 30: FOOD AND TASTE

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK MAIN PATTERNS OF DIGESTIVE SYMPTOMS FOOD APPETITE TASTE NAUSEA AND VOMITING BELCHING SOUR REGURGITATION

Chapter 31: STOOLS AND URINE

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK STOOLS URINE

Chapter 32: THIRST AND DRINK

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK THIRST DRY MOUTH PREFERENCE FOR HOT OR COLD DRINKS ABSENCE OF THIRST

Chapter 33: ENERGY LEVELS

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK HISTORICAL BACKGROUND PATTERNS CAUSING TIREDNESS

Chapter 34: HEAD

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK HEADACHE DIZZINESS WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK FAINTING FEELING OF DISTENSION OF THE HEAD FEELING OF HEAVINESS OF THE HEAD FEELING OF MUZZINESS (FUZZINESS) OF THE HEAD BRAIN NOISE FEELING OF COLD OF THE HEAD FEELING OF HEAT OF THE HEAD NUMBNESS/TINGLING OF THE SKIN OF THE HEAD ITCHY SCALP

Chapter 35: FACE

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK FACE NOSE TEETH AND GUMS MOUTH AND LIPS TONGUE

Chapter 36: THROAT AND NECK

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE THROAT AND NECK THROAT NECK

Chapter 37: BODY

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK ACHES IN THE WHOLE BODY PAIN IN THE JOINTS LOWER BACKACHE NUMBNESS/TINGLING ITCHING LOSS OF WEIGHT OBESITY

Chapter 38: CHEST AND ABDOMEN

CHEST WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK ABDOMEN WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK

Chapter 39: LIMBS

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK WEAKNESS OF THE LIMBS DIFFICULTY IN WALKING (ATROPHY/FLACCIDITY OF LIMBS FEELING OF DISTENSION OF THE LIMBS FEELING OF HEAVINESS OF THE LIMBS MUSCLE ACHE IN THE LIMBS NUMBNESS/TINGLING OF THE LIMBS GENERALIZED JOINT PAIN TREMOR OF THE LIMBS UPPER LIMBS LOWER LIMBS

Chapter 40: SLEEP

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK INSOMNIA EXCESSIVE DREAMING SOMNOLENCE

Chapter 41: SWEATING

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SWEATING PATHOLOGY OF SWEATING CLASSIFICATION OF SWEATING ABSENCE OF SWEATING

Chapter 42: EARS AND EYES

EARS WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK EYES WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK

Chapter 43: FEELING OF COLD, FEELING OF HEAT AND FEVER

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK FEELING OF COLD SIMULTANEOUS FEELING OF COLD AND FEVER IN EXTERIOR CONDITIONS ALTERNATING FEELING OF COLD AND FEELING OF HEAT FEELING OF HEAT FROM INTERNAL CAUSES INTERIOR FEVER FIVE-PALM HEAT CONTRADICTORY FEELINGS OF COLD AND HEAT IN INTERNAL CONDITIONS

Chapter 44: MENTAL—EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK DEPRESSION FEAR/ANXIETY IRRITABILITY/ANGER WORRY/OVERTHINKING SADNESS/GRIEF EXCESS JOY MENTAL RESTLESSNESS

Chapter 45: SEXUAL SYMPTOMS

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK MEN WOMEN

Chapter 46: WOMEN’S SYMPTOMS

INTRODUCTION WHY WE ASK WHEN WE ASK HOW WE ASK THE GYNAECOLOGICAL HISTORY BREAST SYMPTOMS MENSTRUATION PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH VAGINAL DISCHARGE

Chapter 47: CHILDREN’S SYMPTOMS

INTRODUCTION MOTHER’S PREGNANCY CHILDBIRTH POSTPARTUM PROBLEMS CHILDHOOD DISEASES DIGESTIVE SYMPTOMS IMMUNIZATIONS RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS AND EARACHE SLEEP SLOW DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 48: DIAGNOSING THE CAUSES OF DISEASE

INTRODUCTION INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CAUSES OF DISEASE THE FIVE STAGES OF LIFE THE CAUSES OF DISEASE

PART 3: DIAGNOSIS BY PALPATION

DIAGNOSIS BY PALPATION

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 49: PULSE DIAGNOSIS

INTRODUCTION THE ‘NINE REGIONS’ OF THE PULSE FROM THE ‘YELLOW EMPEROR’S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE’ THE PULSE IN THE ‘CLASSIC OF DIFFICULTIES’ THE THREE SECTIONS OF THE PULSE ASSIGNMENT OF PULSE POSITIONS TO ORGANS THE THREE LEVELS METHOD OF PULSE TAKING FACTORS AFFECTING THE PULSE ATTRIBUTES OF THE NORMAL PULSE GUIDELINES FOR INTERPRETING THE PULSE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF PULSE DIAGNOSIS INTEGRATION OF PULSE AND TONGUE DIAGNOSIS LIMITATIONS OF PULSE DIAGNOSIS

Chapter 50: PULSE QUALITIES Chapter 51: PALPATION OF PARTS OF THE BODY

INTRODUCTION PALPATION OF THE CHEST AND ABDOMEN PALPATION OF THE SKIN PALPATION OF HANDS AND FEET PALPATION OF ACUPUNCTURE POINTS

Chapter 52: PALPATION OF CHANNELS

INTRODUCTION CONNECTING CHANNELS MUSCLE CHANNELS PALPATION OF THE CHANNELS IN PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME (BI) PALPATION OF CHANNELS

PART 4: DIAGNOSIS BY HEARING AND SMELLING

DIAGNOSIS BY HEARING AND SMELLING

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 53: DIAGNOSIS BY HEARING

INTRODUCTION VOICE SPEECH CRYING IN BABIES BREATHING AND SIGHING COUGHING AND SNEEZING HICCUP BELCHING VOMITING

Chapter 54: DIAGNOSIS BY SMELLING

INTRODUCTION BODY ODOUR ODOUR OF BODILY SECRETIONS

PART 5: SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

INTRODUCTION

SECTION 1: SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF PARTS OF THE BODY

SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF PARTS OF THE BODY

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 55: HEAD, HAIR AND FACE

HEAD Hair and scalp Face

Chapter 56: FACE COLOUR

WHITE/PALE YELLOW RED BLUISH/GREENISH PURPLE DARK SALLOW BLUSHING

Chapter 57: EARS

TINNITUS/DEAFNESS ITCHY EARS EARACHE BLEEDING FROM THE EARS DISCHARGE FROM THE EARS EXCESSIVE WAX PRODUCTION ABNORMAL SIZE DRY AND CONTRACTED HELIX SORES ON THE EAR WARTS ON THE EAR ABNORMAL HELIX COLOUR RED BACK OF THE EAR DISTENDED BLOOD VESSELS ON THE EAR SWELLING AND REDNESS OF THE CONCHA

Chapter 58: NOSE

ABNORMAL COLOUR SNEEZING BLOCKED NOSE RUNNY NOSE ITCHY NOSE DRY NOSTRILS NOSEBLEED NOSE ACHE NOSE PAIN SWOLLEN NOSE BAD SMELL LOSS OF SENSE OF SMELL POLYPS FLAPPING ALAE NASI (THE OUTSIDE OF THE NOSTRILS) ULCERS ON THE NOSE PAPULES ON THE NOSE

Chapter 59: THROAT

SORE THROAT REDNESS OF THE PHARYNX REDNESS AND SWELLING OF THE PHARYNX REDNESS AND EROSION OF THE PHARYNX SWOLLEN TONSILS PHLEGM IN THE THROAT GOITRE (swelling of the sides of the neck ITCHY THROAT DRY THROAT HOARSE VOICE OR LOSS OF VOICE WHITE PURULENT SPOTS IN THE THROAT FEELING OF OBSTRUCTION OF THE THROAT REDNESS ON THE THROAT

Chapter 60: MOUTH, TONGUE, TEETH, GUMS, LIPS, PALATE AND PHILTRUM

MOUTH TONGUE TEETH GUMS LIPS PALATE PHILTRUM

Chapter 61: EYES

VISION ITCHY EYES DRY EYES HOT AND PAINFUL EYES STREAMING EYES DISCHARGE FROM THE EYES EYE COLOUR EYELIDS GLAUCOMA FEELING OF DISTENSION OF THE EYES EYEBALL ECCHYMOSIS UNDER CONJUNCTIVA RED VEINS/MEMBRANE CORNEA WHITE SPECKS PUPILS STARING, FIXED EYES CLOSED EYES OPEN EYES INVERTED EYELASHES CATARACT

Chapter 62: NECK, SHOULDERS AND UPPER BACK

NECK AND SHOULDERS UPPER BACK

Chapter 63: CHEST

COUGH BREATHLESSNESS WHEEZING PAIN FEELINGS IN THE CHEST AND HEART PALPITATIONS DISPLACED HEARTBEAT ABNORMAL CHEST SHAPE GYNAECOMASTIA YAWNING SIGHING

Chapter 64: LIMBS

MUSCLE ACHE IN THE LIMBS PAIN IN THE LIMBS HANDS AND FEET ABNORMAL FEELINGS IN THE LIMBS WEAKNESS AND ATROPHY LIMB SWELLING LIMB MOVEMENT

Chapter 65: ARMS

PAIN IN THE ELBOW HANDS FINGERS NAILS

Chapter 66: LEGS

FEET ATROPHY OF THE LEGS PARALYSIS OF THE LEGS GAIT ARCHED LEGS PAIN KNEES WEAKNESS OF THE LEGS A FEELING OF HEAVINESS OF THE LEGS RESTLESS LEGS TREMOR OF THE LEGS CRAMPS IN THE CALVES LOWER LEG ULCERS TOE ULCERS BURNING SENSATION IN THE SOLES

Chapter 67: LOWER BACK

LOWER BACKACHE SCIATICA FEELING OF COLD AND HEAVINESS OF THE LOWER BACK WEAKNESS OF THE LOWER BACK AND KNEES STIFFNESS OF THE LOWER BACK COCCYX PAIN ATROPHY OF THE MUSCLES ALONG THE SPINE RIGIDITY OF THE LOWER BACK SKIN SIGNS SPINAL CURVATURE

Chapter 68: BODY

BODY ACHES PAIN IN THE JOINTS LOSS OF FEELING ITCHING OEDEMA WEIGHT CHANGE JAUNDICE TWITCHING OF MUSCLES OPISTHOTONOS

Chapter 69: DIGESTIVE SYSTEM AND TASTE

BELCHING REGURGITATION HICCUP HUNGER AND EATING SLEEPINESS AFTER EATING NAUSEA, RETCHING AND VOMITING TASTE

Chapter 70: THIRST AND DRINK

THIRST DRY MOUTH ABSENCE OF THIRST INCREASED SALIVATION

Chapter 71: ABDOMEN

INTRODUCTION PAIN DISTENSION AND FULLNESS ABNORMAL FEELINGS IN THE ABDOMEN BORBORYGMI FLATULENCE SKIN SIGNS ABDOMINAL MASSES OEDEMA OF THE ABDOMEN ABDOMINAL SIZE SAGGING LOWER ABDOMEN UMBILICUS

Chapter 72: DEFECATION

DIARRHOEA OR LOOSE STOOLS DIARRHOEA WITH VOMITING CONSTIPATION ALTERNATION OF CONSTIPATION AND LOOSE STOOLS INCONTINENCE OF FAECES BLOOD AND MUCUS IN THE STOOLS MUCUS IN THE STOOLS BLOOD IN THE STOOLS DIFFICULTY IN DEFECATION STRAINING IN DEFECATION

Chapter 73: URINATION

DARK URINE PALE AND ABUNDANT URINE TURBID URINE PAINFUL URINATION SCANTY AND DIFFICULT URINATION DIFFICULT URINATION FREQUENT URINATION DRIBBLING OF URINE INCONTINENCE OF URINE NOCTURNAL ENURESIS URINATION AT NIGHT BLOOD IN THE URINE SPERM IN THE URINE

Chapter 74: ANUS

ITCHING OF THE ANUS HAEMORRHOIDS ANAL PROLAPSE ANAL FISSURE ANAL FISTULA ANAL ULCERS

Chapter 75: MEN’S SEXUAL AND GENITAL SYMPTOMS

IMPOTENCE LACK OF LIBIDO EJACULATION PRIAPISM COLD GENITALS SCROTUM PENIS SWELLING AND PAIN OF THE TESTICLES PUBIC HAIR

Chapter 76: SWEATING

SPONTANEOUS SWEATING NIGHT SWEATING SWEATING FROM COLLAPSE YELLOW SWEAT LOCALIZED SWEATING ABSENCE OF SWEATING

Chapter 77: SKIN SIGNS

GREASY SKIN DRY SKIN ERUPTIONS INFECTIONS GROWTHS AND MASSES NECK ULCERS

Chapter 78: EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS

PROPENSITY TO ANGER PROPENSITY TO WORRY SADNESS FEAR/ANXIETY TENDENCY TO BE EASILY STARTLED EXCESS JOY MENTAL RESTLESSNESS SEVERE TIMIDITY INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHTER

Chapter 79: MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS

DEPRESSION DEPRESSION AND MANIC BEHAVIOUR ANXIETY IRRITABILITY SCHIZOPHRENIA

Chapter 80: MENTAL DIFFICULTIES

POOR MEMORY DIFFICULTY IN CONCENTRATION LEARNING DIFFICULTY IN CHILDREN HYPERACTIVITY

Chapter 81: SLEEP PROBLEMS

INSOMNIA EXCESSIVE DREAMING SOMNOLENCE SLEEP TALKING SLEEP WALKING SNORING

Chapter 82: FEELING OF COLD, FEELING OF HEAT, FEVER

FEELING OF COLD, SHIVERING FEVER FIVE-PALM HEAT CONTRADICTORY FEELINGS OF COLD AND HEAT

Chapter 83: VOICE, SPEECH AND SOUNDS

LOUD VOICE WEAK VOICE MUFFLED VOICE HOARSE VOICE NASAL VOICE SNORING SLURRED SPEECH INCOHERENT, INCESSANT SPEECH MUTTERING TO ONESELF DELIRIOUS SPEECH DIFFICULTY IN FINDING WORDS STUTTERING GROANING CRYING OUT

SECTION 2: GYNAECOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

GYNAECOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 84: MENSTRUAL SYMPTOMS

MENSTRUAL BLOOD PERIODS

Chapter 85: PROBLEMS AT PERIOD TIME

PREMENSTRUAL TENSION HEADACHE BREAST DISTENSION FEVER BODY ACHES OEDEMA DIARRHOEA CONSTIPATION NOSEBLEED MOUTH ULCERS SKIN ERUPTIONS DIZZINESS VOMITING INSOMNIA EYE PAIN

Chapter 86: PROBLEMS DURING PREGNANCY

MORNING SICKNESS VAGINAL BLEEDING ABDOMINAL PAIN OEDEMA URINATION PROBLEMS CONSTIPATION ANXIETY DIZZINESS COUGH LOSS OF VOICE FEELING OF SUFFOCATION CONVULSIONS (ECLAMPSIA) PROBLEMS WITH THE FETUS

Chapter 87: PROBLEMS AFTER CHILDBIRTH

RETENTION OF PLACENTA LOCHIA PAIN VAGINAL BLEEDING URINARY DIFFICULTY CONSTIPATION SWEATING DIZZINESS OEDEMA FEVER BREAST MILK POSTNATAL DEPRESSION/PSYCHOSIS COLLAPSE CONVULSIONS

Chapter 88: BREAST SIGNS

BREAST DISTENSION AND SWELLING BREAST PAIN BREAST LUMPS NIPPLES PEAU D’ ORANGE SKIN SMALL BREASTS

Chapter 89: MISCELLANEOUS GYNAECOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS

INFERTILITY MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME ABDOMINAL MASSES VAGINAL DISCHARGE INFLAMMATION AND SWELLING PROLAPSE LEUKOPLAKIA DYSPAREUNIA BLEEDING ON INTERCOURSE LACK OF LIBIDO PUBIC HAIR

SECTION 3: PAEDIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

PAEDIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 90: CHILDREN’S PROBLEMS

FEVER VOMITING DIARRHOEA RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS EAR PROBLEMS HOT PALMS AND SOLES CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS CONSTIPATION IN INFANCY URINATION PROBLEMS CRYING DISTURBED SLEEP ACCUMULATION DISORDER WORMS FIVE FLACCIDITIES FIVE RETARDATIONS INFLAMMATIONS JAUNDICE INFECTIONS FLAPPING OF NOSTRILS CONVULSIONS FETUS TOXIN FONTANELLES WHITE SPOTS ON THE PALATE AND TONGUE LONG PENIS

PART 6: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS

IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS

INTRODUCTION

SECTION 1: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE INTERNAL ORGANS

IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE INTERNAL ORGANS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 91: HEART

HEART-QI DEFICIENCY HEART-YANG DEFICIENCY PATTERNS HEART-YANG COLLAPSE HEART-BLOOD DEFICIENCY HEART-QI AND HEART-BLOOD DEFICIENCY HEART-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS HEART-QI AND HEART-YIN DEFICIENCY DEFICIENCY OF BOTH HEART-YANG AND HEART-YIN HEART-QI STAGNATION HEART-FIRE BLAZING PHLEGM PATTERNS HEART-BLOOD STASIS HEART VESSEL OBSTRUCTION WATER OVERFLOWING TO THE HEART TURBID DAMPNESS SURROUNDING THE HEART COMBINED PATTERNS

Chapter 92: SPLEEN

SPLEEN-QI DEFICIENCY PATTERNS SPLEEN-YANG DEFICIENCY SPLEEN-BLOOD DEFICIENCY SPLEEN-QI SINKING SPLEEN NOT CONTROLLING BLOOD SPLEEN-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS COLD-DAMPNESS IN THE SPLEEN DAMP-HEAT IN THE SPLEEN SPLEEN-HEAT PHLEGM OBSTRUCTING THE MIDDLE BURNER YIN FIRE FROM DEFICIENCY OF THE STOMACH AND SPLEEN AND ORIGINAL QI COMBINED PATTERNS

Chapter 93: LIVER

LIVER-QI STAGNATION PATTERNS REBELLIOUS LIVER-QI LIVER-YANG RISING LIVER-BLOOD STASIS LIVER-FIRE BLAZING UPWARDS DAMP-HEAT LIVER-WIND LIVER-BLOOD DEFICIENCY PATTERNS STAGNATION OF COLD IN THE LIVER CHANNEL LIVER-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS LIVER-QI DEFICIENCY LIVER PHLEGM-FIRE LIVER-YANG DEFICIENCY COMBINED PATTERNS

Chapter 94: LUNGS

LUNG-QI DEFICIENCY PATTERNS LUNG-YANG DEFICIENCY LUNG-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS LUNG-QI AND LUNG-YIN DEFICIENCY LUNG-DRYNESS INVASION OF LUNGS BY WIND LUNG-HEAT PHLEGM PATTERNS LUNG-QI STAGNATION LUNG-QI COLLAPSE COMBINED PATTERNS

Chapter 95: KIDNEYS

KIDNEY-QI DEFICIENCY KIDNEY-YANG DEFICIENCY PATTERNS KIDNEY-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS KIDNEY-YANG AND KIDNEY-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS KIDNEY-QI NOT FIRM KIDNEYS FAILING TO RECEIVE QI KIDNEY-ESSENCE DEFICIENCY COMBINED PATTERNS

Chapter 96: SMALL INTESTINE

FULL-HEAT IN THE SMALL INTESTINE SMALL INTESTINE QI PAIN SMALL INTESTINE QI TIED SMALL INTESTINE DEFICIENT AND COLD INFESTATION OF WORMS IN THE SMALL INTESTINE

Chapter 97: STOMACH

STOMACH-QI DEFICIENCY STOMACH DEFICIENT AND COLD (STOMACH-YANG DEFICIENCY) STOMACH-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS DEFICIENCY OF STOMACH-YIN AND STOMACH-YANG STOMACH-QI STAGNATION BLOOD STASIS IN THE STOMACH STOMACH-HEAT STOMACH-FIRE STOMACH PHLEGM-FIRE STOMACH DAMP-HEAT COLD INVADING THE STOMACH STOMACH-QI REBELLING UPWARDS RETENTION OF FOOD IN THE STOMACH

Chapter 98: GALL-BLADDER

DAMP-HEAT PATTERNS DAMP-COLD IN THE GALL-BLADDER GALL-BLADDER HEAT GALL-BLADDER DEFICIENT STAGNATION OF THE GALL-BLADDER WITH PHLEGM-HEAT COMBINED PATTERNS

Chapter 99: LARGE INTESTINE

DAMP-HEAT IN THE LARGE INTESTINE HEAT PATTERNS COLD PATTERNS LARGE INTESTINE DRYNESS DAMPNESS IN THE LARGE INTESTINE LARGE INTESTINE DEFICIENT AND COLD LARGE INTESTINE DEFICIENT AND DAMP COLLAPSE OF LARGE INTESTINE

Chapter 100: BLADDER

DAMP-HEAT IN THE BLADDER DAMP-COLD IN THE BLADDER BLADDER DEFICIENT AND COLD

SECTION 2: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO QI, BLOOD AND BODY FLUIDS

IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO QI, BLOOD AND BODY FLUIDS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 101: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO QI, BLOOD, YANG AND YIN

QI BLOOD YANG YIN COMBINED QI, BLOOD, YIN AND YANG

Chapter 102: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO BODY FLUIDS

DEFICIENCY OF BODY FLUIDS OEDEMA PHLEGM

SECTION 3: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO PATHOGENIC FACTORS, FOUR LEVELS, SIX STAGES AND THREE BURNERS

IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO PATHOGENIC FACTORS, FOUR LEVELS, SIX STAGES AND THREE BURNERS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 103: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO PATHOGENIC FACTORS

INTRODUCTION WIND COLD SUMMER-HEAT DAMPNESS DRYNESS FIRE

Chapter 104: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE FOUR LEVELS

INTRODUCTION DEFENSIVE-QI LEVEL QI LEVEL NUTRITIVE-QI LEVEL BLOOD LEVEL THE FOUR LEVELS IN A NUTSHELL LATENT HEAT RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FOUR LEVELS, SIX STAGES AND THREE BURNERS

Chapter 105: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE SIX STAGES

GREATER-YANG STAGE BRIGHT-YANG STAGE LESSER-YANG STAGE GREATER-YIN STAGE LESSER-YIN STAGE TERMINAL-YIN STAGE

Chapter 106: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE THREE BURNERS

UPPER BURNER MIDDLE BURNER LOWER BURNER

Chapter 107: RESIDUAL PATHOGENIC FACTOR

INTRODUCTION FORMATION OF RESIDUAL PATHOGENIC FACTOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF RESIDUAL PATHOGENIC FACTOR PHLEGM DAMPNESS HEAT LESSER-YANG PATTERN

SECTION 4: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE EIGHT PRINCIPLES, 12 CHANNELS, EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY VESSELS AND FIVE ELEMENT

IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE EIGHT PRINCIPLES, 12 CHANNELS, EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY VESSELS AND FIVE ELEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 108: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE EIGHT PRINCIPLES

INTRODUCTION INTERIOR–EXTERIOR HOT–COLD FULL–EMPTY YIN–YANG

Chapter 109: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE 12 CHANNELS

LUNGS LARGE INTESTINE STOMACH SPLEEN HEART SMALL INTESTINE BLADDER KIDNEYS PERICARDIUM TRIPLE BURNER GALL-BLADDER LIVER

Chapter 110: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY VESSELS

INTRODUCTION GOVERNING VESSEL (DU MAI) DIRECTING VESSEL (REN MAI) PENETRATING VESSEL (CHONG MAI) COMBINED DIRECTING AND PENETRATING VESSEL PATTERNS GIRDLE VESSEL (DAI MAI) YIN HEEL VESSEL (YIN QIAO MAI) YANG HEEL VESSEL (YANG QIAO MAI) YIN LINKING VESSEL (YIN WEI MAI) YANG LINKING VESSEL (YANG WEI MAI)

Chapter 111: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE FIVE ELEMENTS

INTRODUCTION GENERATING SEQUENCE PATTERNS OVERACTING SEQUENCE PATTERNS INSULTING SEQUENCE PATTERNS

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: CASE HISTORIES Appendix 2: PRESCRIPTIONS Appendix 3: HISTORY OF DIAGNOSIS IN CHINESE MEDICINE Glossary of Chinese terms Bibliography Chinese chronology

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