Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Overview of Auscultation and Olfaction

Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Overview of Auscultation and Olfaction

Follow ↑↑↑ us for more exciting content! Auscultation Auscultation is a method of understanding health conditions and diagnosing diseases through listening to sounds and smelling odors. Listening to sounds includes discerning the patient’s voice, speech, breathing, coughing, vomiting, hiccuping, warmth, sighing, sneezing, yawning, bowel sounds, and various other noises. Smelling odors includes detecting abnormal smells … Read more

How is Diagnosis Made Through Auditory and Olfactory Examination in Traditional Chinese Medicine?

How is Diagnosis Made Through Auditory and Olfactory Examination in Traditional Chinese Medicine?

Auditory and olfactory examination (闻诊) is one of the four diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which utilizes auditory and olfactory senses to infer diseases based on the sounds emitted by the patient and the various odors from bodily excretions. In clinical practice, auditory examination is combined with visual examination (望诊), inquiry (问诊), and … Read more