To a large extent, we make judgments about our health state using our sensory perceptions all the time, although we may not be consciously aware of it. For example, we may check our health based on the state of our spirit, skin condition and breath odor.

For thousands of years, tcm practitioners have honed these basic skills as the mainstay of health assessment. These clinical data observations are further analyzed in a systematic manner.

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when doing a consultation, a tcm physician usually asks about urination patterns and bowel movements, details that may seem irrelevant to the complaint of the individual being examined. Actually, this information is important for understanding and predicting pathological changes of our internal organs. Waste products of urine and stool provide a lot of information about the state of health balance in our body.