Video: Traditional Chinese Medicine: Diagnostics Overview

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Traditional Chinese medicine is an ancient Chinese practice that uses intricate measures in order to properly diagnose patients. Learn more about tcm and diagnostics from an acupuncturist in this free alternative medicine video.

Video Transcript

When you first visit your Chinese acupuncture physician, they're going to have you fill out some standard medical forms where they're going to ask you a lot of questions. You may be used to going to your MD and not actually answering a lot of those questions in the kind of detail that an acupuncturist needs. So make sure you give them a great deal of detail about every little ache and pain and what seems to make it better or worse and then they're going to do some odd things. They're going to do things like ask you to stick out your tongue. They may look at the top of it, they may look at the underside. They're going to check your pulses on both hands and they're going to sit there for a few minutes whilst they do it. They're actually checking things different from the way your normal MD maybe checking them. So bear with them, be sure to ask them questions because most acupuncturists are very happy to explain to you why they're doing the things that they are. And most importantly, give them lots of details. Because they're going to ask about everything from your stools, maybe your menstruation, what kind of foods you like, what kind of weather you like, even what temperature you keep your air conditioner at. So, it?s going to be a little bit different experience that first time you're in to see your acupuncturist and give them lots of information.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine: Diagnostics Overview

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