Diagnostic methods
Six courses to learn to reason like a Chinese medicine clinician: eight principles, tongue, pulse, meridians, five elements and organs.
Course · 6 lessonsThe eight principles (Ba Gang)
Four yes-or-no questions — where it is, how hot or cold it runs, who is winning, and which way the whole picture leans — that put any clinical picture in order before you name it.
Course · 6 lessonsTongue diagnosis
Looking at the tongue for ten seconds to read the state of the Blood, the body fluids and the digestion.
Course · 5 lessonsPulse diagnosis
By resting three fingers on the wrist you read at what depth, at what speed and with how much reserve the body is working right now.
Course · 6 lessonsMeridian diagnosis
Meridian diagnosis uses the map of the body’s channels: when a symptom follows a line, that line tells you which channel to look at.
Course · 6 lessonsFive-element diagnosis
A map of five groups of correspondences — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water — used to explain why a problem that starts in one organ ends up showing in another.
Course · 6 lessonsZang-Fu organ diagnosis
It gives the imbalance a full name: which body function is failing, what it lacks or has in excess, and which way it has drifted.
