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==Diagnostics== In TCM, there are five major diagnostic methods: inspection, auscultation, olfaction, inquiry, and palpation.<ref name="Cheng 1987">{{cite book | vauthors = Cheng X | title = Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (1st ed.) | year = 1987 | publisher = Foreign Languages Press | isbn = 978-7-119-00378-8}}</ref> These are grouped into what is known as the "Four pillars" of diagnosis, which are Inspection, Auscultation/ Olfaction, Inquiry, and Palpation ({{lang|zh|望,聞,問,切}}). * Inspection focuses on the face and particularly on the tongue, including analysis of the tongue size, shape, tension, color and coating, and the absence or presence of teeth marks around the edge. * Auscultation refers to listening for particular sounds (such as wheezing). * Olfaction refers to attending to body odor. * Inquiry focuses on the "seven inquiries", which involve asking the person about the regularity, severity, or other characteristics of: chills, fever, perspiration, appetite, thirst, taste, defecation, urination, pain, sleep, [[menses]], [[leukorrhea]]. * Palpation which includes feeling the body for tender [[Acupuncture#Clinical practice|A-shi points]], and the palpation of the wrist pulses as well as various other pulses, and palpation of the abdomen. ===Tongue and pulse=== Examination of the tongue and the pulse are among the principal diagnostic methods in TCM. Details of the tongue, including shape, size, color, texture, cracks, teeth marks, as well as tongue coating are all considered as part of [[tongue diagnosis]]. Various regions of the tongue's surface are believed to correspond to the zàng-fŭ organs. For example, redness on the tip of the tongue might indicate heat in the Heart, while redness on the sides of the tongue might indicate heat in the Liver.<ref name="zrxs6">{{cite book | vauthors = Maciocia G |title=Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine |date=2001}}</ref> Pulse palpation involves measuring the pulse both at a superficial and at a deep level at three different locations on the [[radial artery]] (''Cun, Guan, Chi'', located two fingerbreadths from the wrist crease, one fingerbreadth from the wrist crease, and right at the wrist crease, respectively, usually palpated with the index, middle and ring finger) of each arm, for a total of twelve pulses, all of which are thought to correspond with certain zàng-fŭ. The pulse is examined for several characteristics including rhythm, strength and volume, and described with qualities like "floating, slippery, bolstering-like, feeble, thready and quick"; each of these qualities indicates certain [[#Patterns|disease patterns]]. Learning TCM pulse diagnosis can take several years.<ref name="qMZOY">{{cite book | vauthors = Wright T, Eisenberg D |title=Encounters with Qi: exploring Chinese medicine |publisher=Norton |location=New York |year=1995 |pages= [https://books.google.com/books?id=DgFA&pg=PA53 53–54]|isbn=978-0-393-31213-3 }}</ref>
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