The way of thinking of Chinese medicine
What is a diagnostic system for prescribing Chinese herbs? The question for doctors who are about to start Kampo treatment is what kind of clues should be used to prescribe Kampo preparations to actual patients. The author believes that there are approximately nine areas of clues for prescribing Chinese herbs. The important thing is that it contains almost all the elements needed for the clinical practice of traditional medicine. The decision to apply or not to a patient can be made by one of the following nine clues, or by making a combined judgment. The author named these systems "Chinese diagnostic system". "Kanpo Diagnostic System" consists of the following 9 items. 1) Source text = symptom group 2) Abdominal examination findings 3) Qi, blood, water 4) Six illnesses 5) Pulse diagnosis, tongue diagnosis 6) Rule of thumb = Gugyeol 7) Western medical disease name 8) Pharmacology of traditional herbal medicine (Honzogaku) 9) Yin-Yang Five Elements Theory Ac