It is natural medicine in China, which has been applied for more than 2,000 years.
It bases on clinic practice and profound philosophy to know the connection of human body and natural.
It has very different ways to diagnose patients by inspection, Listening and Smelling, Inquiry, Palpation.
Inspection is to observe color or nature of tongue, face, nails, ears, palms, skins, et al to locate diseases and to know the nature of diseases.
Listening and Smelling is to listen the voice and breathing of patients, and to smell the odor of patients' organs and discharges for the aim of tell diseases and symptoms.
Inquiry is to ask limited questions, to difference confusing of a few possible results of diagnosis.
Palpation is to feel patients' pulses, or to touch the affected organs from exterior.
Its therapeutic ways are herbs, acupuncture, cupping, scraping, Tuina(more complicated than massage) ect. to save lots of lives.
In ancient China, surgery has been taken by TCM doctors more than thousands of years before modern western medicine emerging.
At that time, various diseases have been treated by TCM, including deadly infectious diseases.
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