National Chinese medicine master Sun Guangrong holds that "knowing what mistaken therapy was applied" is a highly generalization of TCM diagnosis process. A poetry was formed to elaborate the connotation: firstly distinguish Yin and Yang when diagnosing of major syndromes; the location of the disease is to distinguish between the pulse and tongue, cold or hot conditions to ask from stool, urine and sweat; deficiency and excess need to ask about sleep, diet and excretion, pain acording to press; the adverse or positive disease should be observed in diet and excretion, life and death look at the...
