TCM Diagnosis
The four diagnostic methods: inspection, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation.
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TCM Diagnostic Reasoning: How Practitioners Think — From Symptoms to Pattern to Treatment
Learn the thinking process behind TCM diagnosis — how practitioners move from gathering symptoms through the Four Examinations to identifying patterns (Bian Zheng) and designing targeted treatment strategies.
The 28 Pulse Types in TCM: A Complete Guide to Pulse Qualities and What They Mean
Learn about the 28 traditional pulse qualities in TCM pulse diagnosis. Understand what each pulse type — from floating and deep to wiry and rapid — reveals about your internal organ health and energetic balance.
TCM Menstrual Diagnosis (月经辨证): Reading Women's Health Through Cycle, Color, Quality, and Pain Patterns
Learn how TCM diagnoses women's health conditions through menstrual characteristics — cycle regularity, blood color and consistency, pain patterns, and accompanying symptoms — to identify patterns of cold, heat, deficiency, stasis, and Liver-Spleen disharmony.
TCM Stool Diagnosis (大便望诊): What Your Bowel Movements Reveal About Internal Health in Chinese Medicine
Learn how TCM analyzes stool characteristics — color, consistency, smell, frequency, and accompanying symptoms — to identify patterns of Spleen deficiency, damp-heat, cold, and other internal conditions for targeted treatment.
TCM Meridian Diagnosis: How Tender Points Along Meridians Reveal Organ Health
Explore TCM meridian diagnosis — the practice of using tenderness, sensitivity, nodules, and temperature changes along meridian pathways to identify organ dysfunction, Qi stagnation, and blood stasis patterns.
TCM Tongue Body Color Guide: What Pale, Red, Purple, and Blue Tongues Reveal
Learn to interpret tongue body color in TCM diagnosis — what pale, red, dark red, purple, and blue tongues indicate about Qi, Blood, Yin, Yang, cold, heat, and stasis patterns in the body.
TCM Smell and Sound Diagnosis (闻诊): What Body Odors, Breath, and Voice Reveal About Health
Explore Wen Zhen — the TCM practice of diagnosing through smell and sound. Learn what different breath odors, body smells, voice qualities, cough sounds, and breathing patterns reveal about heat, cold, dampness, deficiency, and excess patterns.
TCM Tongue Coating Guide: How to Read Fur Color, Thickness, and Moisture for Diagnosis
Learn to interpret tongue coating in TCM diagnosis — what white, yellow, gray, and black coatings mean, how thickness and moisture reveal dampness and heat patterns, and how to distinguish normal from pathological tongue fur.
Body Shape and Constitution Diagnosis in TCM: What Your Physical Build Reveals
Learn how Traditional Chinese Medicine reads body shape, posture, muscle tone, and physical constitution to assess organ health, vulnerability to disease, and guide personalized treatment and lifestyle recommendations.
Five Color Diagnosis in TCM: How Color Reveals Organ Health and Disease Patterns
Learn how Traditional Chinese Medicine uses color observation — the five colors of Green, Red, Yellow, White, and Black — to assess organ function, identify disease patterns, and guide treatment through facial, tongue, and body color analysis.