Traceability of TCM diagnostic methods

TCM diagnosis has a long history. Qin Yueren (Bian Que), a famous doctor in the Warring States Period, was good at taking the pulse, looking at the color, listening to the sound, writing the shape, and identifying the location of the disease. According to the theory of yin and yang, five elements, viscera and meridians, Huangdi Neijing describes many diagnostic methods in detail, and expounds the principles of their comprehensive application, which lays the foundation for the four diagnostic methods.

Wang Shuhe in the Western Jin Dynasty compiled Pulse Classic, which established the method of pulse diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine. In clinical practice, doctors in past dynasties have continuously inherited and improved the diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine, and formed a large number of ancient books on diagnostic methods, such as The Theory of Three Causes and One Disease Syndrome in Song Dynasty, The Golden Mirror Record of Aoshi Typhoid in Ming Dynasty, Guanjing in Qing Dynasty and so on. There are nearly 100 kinds of accumulated diagnostic works.