Analysis of TCM Diagnostic Thinking Process

Author: Yang Yaping, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book adopts a scenario-based teaching approach, selecting common clinical symptoms and recreating the actual process of doctors diagnosing and treating patients through written scenarios. It provides readers with the doctors' diagnostic reasoning and conclusions step by step. The book is divided into two parts: the main part and the supplementary part. The main part consists of four sections, presenting nearly 60 common clinical symptoms in the form of doctors' actual diagnostic processes and providing analysis insights at appropriate times. After comprehensively collecting clinical data from the four diagnostic methods—inspection, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation—it generates four diagnostic records, draws diagnostic conclusions, establishes treatment principles and prescriptions, and explains and analyzes the reasoning behind the conclusions. After several cases for each symptom, there are summaries discussing the common syndromes, characteristics, and differentiations of the symptom. At the end, there are brief, representative excerpts from ancient medical literature. To help beginners consolidate practical knowledge of common syndromes, the supplementary part lists dozens of simpler cases with complete four-diagnostic data, asking readers to independently think and make diagnostic analyses according to the requirements. The reference answers and self-assessment of syndromes are provided at the end. Through the more than 100 cases introduced in this book, readers can gain a preliminary understanding and mastery of the diagnostic process and reasoning in a relatively short time.