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Pulse diagnosis, or pulsology, was part of medicine in the medieval Islamic world. The Canon of Medicine , published in 1025, included instructions on how to analyse the pulse and from such examination, physicians considered that they could identify problems ranging from jaundice to dropsy, diphtheria, pregnancy, and anxiety.
Dr. Duckworth is an internationally known teacher of Kototama Life Medicine. He specializes in Kototama Pulse diagnosis, Pediatric acupuncture, 'Tama-touch', Kappo, women's medicine, and in Kototama Sound. He discovered the Kototama Pulse configuration (1982–1986) and created 'Tama-Touch', a tactile therapy of the Ki Kei Meridians in 2009. Dr.
Li details additional names and their corresponding pulse diagnosis acupuncture channels. Hair from different positions is given different names: Hair on the head, called Fa [髮] (hair), pertains to Kidney Channel of Foot Lesser Yin and Stomach Channel of Foot Greater Yang.
In the Chinese medical tradition, especially in modern herbalism and acupuncture, the palpation of the pulses (three on each wrist, see pulse diagnosis) [7] is used as the major method for palpation diagnosis. While in China, or some parts of Chinese society, pulse diagnosis may have been culturally more acceptable for being less intimate or ...
The AB Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Zhenjiu jiayi jing 針灸甲乙經, compiled by Huangfu Mi sometime between 256 and 282 CE) assembled a consistent body of doctrines concerning acupuncture; [31] whereas the Canon of the Pulse (Maijing 脈經; c. 280) presented itself as a "comprehensive handbook of diagnostics and therapy." [31]
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In China, pulse diagnosis was related to the balance between the yin and yang. Irregular pulses were believed to be caused by an imbalance of the yin and the yang. However, when the Mongol adopted this medical practice, they believed that the pulse was directly related to moral order and that when the moral order was chaotic, so the pulse would ...
Skin allergy testing may also help guide a diagnosis, according to the CDC. “Doctors really have to think about this diagnosis,” Dr. Schaffner says. Because it’s a newer illness, they may ...