Publication Year: 2006
Edition: 1st
Authors/Editor: Chen, Jia-xu; Song, Tian-bin
Publisher: People's Medical Publishing House
ISBN: 978-7-11-707997-6
Provides an excellent study guide to the Chinese medical examination method of inspection - the first of what is known as the "four examinations"
As a medicine that developed without high tech diagnostic tools, the four examinations are the fundamental diagnostic methods of Chinese medicine.
With an ample supply of photographs, this book enables readers to develop the ability to use inspection as an integral part of their clinical practice by covering the six aspects of inspection: vitality and color, body shape and form, sense organs and orifices of the head and face, tongue, body and limbs, and skin. ommonly seen disease syndromes are presented in 221 cases with corresponding pictures to display their manifestations for inspection.
Topic covered include the six aspects of inspection:
Pictorial Guide to Clinical Observation in Chinese Medicine