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Diagnostics Overview Si Zhen (The Four Methods) Inspection Vitality Color Appearance Five Sense Organs Tongue Auscultation and Olfaction Listening Smelling Inquiring Chills and Fever Perspiration Appetite, Thirst and Taste Pain Sleep Menses and Leukorrhea Palpation Pulse Abdomen Channels Other parts of body Principles of Diagnosis Information is collected using the four examinations An assessment of diagnosis is then made using the various approaches All patients will have two levels of diagnosis Bian Bing (Illness Differentiation) - Disease Name Bian Zheng (Syndrome Differentiation) - The Pattern Diagnostic Approaches Ba Gang (The Eight Principles) Most general system Used as first step in determining further approaches Bing Yin Bian Zheng (Etiological Differentiation) used to determine the pathogenic process in particular exogenous factors Liu Jing Bian Zheng (Six Divisions Differentiation) used for exogenous Wind-Cold syndromes Wei Qi Ying Xue Differentiation used for febrile diseases San Jiao Differentiation used for febrile diseases Zang Fu Differentiation  used for the deepest level endogenous problems Jing Luo (Channel and Collateral) Differentiation local stagnation and deficiency problems Qi Xue Jin Ye Differentiation general endogenous problems problems that have not yet affected the Zang Fu or used in combination with Zang Fu differentiation

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