Physical examination in Kampo medicine are Inspection, Listening, Interview, Palpitation, and examining it make the core of “Inspection” the diagnosis of tongue. A character of “Inspection” is hieroglyphic formation of the state that even a tiptoe watches the distance of a person. In other Words, not a viewpoint of “analysis”, you must perform it for an idea to “grasp the whole” to the last. Medical examination and treatment begins at the moment when a patient entered a consulting room, and it is it with a key whether, with that in mind, “grasping the whole” is possible. Laennec (1781-1826) created a stethoscope states that “all the medicine begins with observation”, but a meaning to have of “Inspection” is deep. Examining it divide it into “Shin, color, form and state” and observe it, but this “Shin” is “energy” and gathers up a whole body state of a patient generally, and a tongue is important when I guess convalescence of illness an importance. It is thought that a tongue reflects development of a condition, Yin and Yang/Kyo and Jitsu of the condition of a patient, balance of Qi, Ketsu and Sui, but there is not such a change for views, and even a physically unimpaired person can watch a native change though there is serious illness in one. In other words it is a premise to watch quality of tongue and a change of fur as a partial phenomenon and an accompanying symptom of the condition of a patient generally without being seized with only views of a part.
Inspection, NOS ; Tongue ; Patients ; Diagnosis ; Medicine, Kampo