


* Inspection focuses on the face and particularly on the tongue,
including analysis of the tongue size, shape, tension, color and
coating, and the absence or presence of teeth marks around
the edge.
* Auscultation and olfaction refer, respectively, to listening for
particular sounds (such as wheezing) and attending to body
odor.
* Inquiring focuses on the "seven inquiries", which are: chills and
fever; perspiration; appetite, thirst and taste; defecation and
urination; pain; sleep; and menses and leukorrhea.
* Palpation includes feeling the body for tender "ashi" points,
and palpation of the left and right radial pulses at two levels of
pressure (superficial and deep) and three positions Cun, Guan,
Chi(immediately proximal to the wrist crease, and one and two
fingers' breadth proximally, usually palpated with the index,
middle and ring fingers).
Other forms of acupuncture employ additional diagnosic
techniques. In many forms of classical Chinese acupuncture, as
well as Japanese acupuncture, palpation of the muscles and the
hara (abdomen) are central to diagnosis.
The following is a list of ailments that can be diagnosed by the
staff of Great Wall Chinese Medicine:
- Abdominal distention/flatulence
- Acute and chronic pain control
- Allergic sinusitis
- Anesthesia for high-risk patients or patients with previous
adverse responses to anesthetics
- Anorexia
- Anxiety, fright, panic
- Arthritis/arthrosis
- Atypical chest pain (negative workup)
- Bursitis, tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome
- Certain functional gastrointestinal disorders (nausea and
vomiting, esophageal spasm, hyperacidity, irritable bowel)
- Cervical and lumbar spine syndromes
- Constipation, diarrhea
- Cough with contraindications for narcotics
- Drug detoxification
- Dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain
- Frozen shoulder
- Headache (migraine and tension-type), vertigo (Meniere
disease), tinnitus
- Idiopathic palpitations, sinus tachycardia
- In fractures, assisting in pain control, edema, and
enhancing healing process
- Muscle spasms, tremors, tics, contractures
- Neuralgias (trigeminal, herpes zoster, postherpetic pain,
other)
- Paresthesias
- Persistent hiccups
- Phantom pain
- Plantar fasciitis
- Post-traumatic and post-operative ileus
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Selected dermatoses (urticaria, pruritus, eczema,
psoriasis)
- Sequelae of stroke syndrome (aphasia, hemiplegia)
- Seventh nerve palsy
- Severe hyperthermia
- Sleep disorders
- Sprains and contusions
- Temporo-mandibular joint derangement, bruxism
- Urinary incontinence, retention (neurogenic, spastic,
adverse drug effect)
- Weight Loss