望闻问切 [
wàng wén wèn qiè]
look, listen, question and feel the pulse -- four ways of diagnosis
- 战国时期的著名医生扁鹊,最早用望、闻、问、切四种方法诊断病情。
The famous doctor of the Warring States Period Bian Que was the first to use observation, auscultation and olfaction, interrogation, and palpation for diagnosis. - 本文透过肩胛骨骨折病例报告,凸显出中医望、闻、问、切「四诊」对诊断的重要性。
This article has shown the importance of the four methods of TCM: observation, auscultation and olfaction , inquiry and pulse diagnosis, through the case study of scapula fracture.