The process of determining the pattern of diagnosis by the best Chinese medicine practitioner in New York begins with an evaluation of eight main principles. These principles describe the basic qualities of a disease. These are:
1.Yin and Yang
Yin is associated with the lower parts of the body, while yang is associated with the upper body and back. Both yin and yang’s interconnectivity, diseases are not seen as entities separate from the body, but understood as states of yin and yang imbalance.
2.Interior
Interior describes diseases that manifest themselves in the Zang-fu organs or deep inside the body, such as qi, blood, and bone marrow. It used to describe diseases that cannot be classified as exterior.
3.Exterior
Exterior describes diseases that manifest themselves on surface of the body, such hair, skin, nails, and meridians. Its symptoms include body chills, fever, aversion to cold temperatures and winds, a weak pulse, and headaches.
4.Heat
Heat describes the absence of an aversion to cold. When coupled with an exterior pattern, its symptoms may include a rapid pulse, fever, body chills, dehydration, and a sore throat. If paired with an Interior patter, it include a preference for cold drinks, clear urine, and a slow pulse.
5.Cold
Cold describes an aversion to cold. If paired with an Exterior pattern, its symptoms may include body aches, a tense pulse, fever, body chills, and headaches. If paired with an Interior patter, its symptoms can include nausea, stomach pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.
6.Deficiency
Deficiency is used to check qi, blood (Xue), or body fluids (Jinye). Depending on how it connects to Interior and Exterior and Cold or Heat. It can lead to constipation, having a small appetite, dizziness, and slow pulse.
7.Excess
Excess is generally classified as any disease that can't be identified as a deficiency pattern. It indicates that one of the six excesses is present.
