The origin should be originated from the sixty-first difficulty of Difficult Classics.
It is said that God is what you see, holiness is what you smell, work is what you ask, and intelligence is what you feel. What is it?
But those who know it can see its five colors to know its disease. Those who smell it, smell its five tones, are not sick. Those who ask and know, ask five flavors to know where the disease is. Those who cut the pulse, observe the mouth, see the actual situation, know the disease and know the viscera. As the saying goes, external knowledge is sacred, and internal knowledge is God. This is also called.
The earliest use of the four-character combination should be in the "Ancient and Modern Medical System": "Looking, listening, asking and cutting four words are the medical program."
Case ~ is a necessary step of traditional Chinese medicine.
Methods of diagnosing diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. The hope is to observe the patient's development, complexion, tongue coating and expression; Smell is listening to the patient's voice, coughing, wheezing, sniffing out the patient's bad breath, body odor and other smells; Asking is to ask the patient about the symptoms he feels, the diseases he has suffered before, etc. It is necessary to feel the pulse by hand or press the abdomen to see if there is a lump. It's called four diagnoses.