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How does your acupuncturist diagnose you?
A licensed Chinese medicine practitioner uses a complex system
of differential diagnosis to pin point the root cause of your
illness. When you arrive for your first treatment you will
be asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire about your main
complaints and your current and past health history. Your
acupuncturist will then ask you some questions, observe your
facial coloring, look at your tongue, read your pulse and
possibly perform other diagnostic tests if necessary. Pulse
and tongue reading are two very important diagnostic tools
of the Chinese medical practitioner. Your acupuncturist will
then use this information to come up with a diagnosis of the
imbalances in your body which are causing your illness and
a treatment plan to alleviate them.
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