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Preface to Dr. Chi’s
Fingernail and Tongue Analysis 3rd Edition
Fingernail and tongue diagnosis has is fundamental to the teachings of the opportunity to analyze many
evolved over thousands of years, Western science, my approach allows patients and have managed to
resulting in a methodology so precise one to combine culturally competent compile the clinical data of over
and natural that it is hailed among methodologies to achieve the most 10,000 cases from around the world.
practitioners as an enlightened art accurate and effective results.
form. Over the years, doctors have Readers should note that diseases
learned to derive qualities do not always have easily
from fingernail and tongue detectable causes and
diagnosis specific to their symptoms. In some cases
field of medicine. My a disease may manifest as
own father was a doctor quite different symptoms in
for forty-five years, and different people. Similarly,
I myself have had over different diseases can
thirty years of experience cause the same symptoms
in the field. Together we in people. In the old days,
have been able to combine primary care physicians
both eastern and western spend a lot of time with
methodologies to create a patients to check their
unique program of physical medical history, their
diagnosis. Both patients physical symptoms and so
and doctors alike have on. It was a more thorough
been urging me to secure checkup in many ways.
this valuable information However, primary care
in print. I hope my book checkups now are not what
will serve as both an they used to be. With more
innovative guide to medical patients than doctors and
diagnosis and a means to with the arrival of managed
carefully bridge together care, patients end up
two important schools of spending more time with
thought, culminating in the nurse than with their
an advanced look at the doctor. And even then,
future of medicine and preventative My method of physical diagnosis nurses are unable to spend enough
diagnosis based on physical markers. started out as an analysis of time with each patient.
And unlike most other handbooks on the fingernails and the tongue.
Chinese medicine, dismissing what Throughout the years, I have had
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Table
1. 1.
Incidence
Incidence
of of
nail
nail
clubbing
clubbing
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lung
lung
disease,
disease,
heart
heart
disease
disease
andand
cancer
cancer
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Condition Total
Total
number
number of of Cases
Cases
with
with
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cases
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fibrosis 7373 7373 100
100
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Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
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64.3
Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
pneumonitis 8282 4444 53.7
53.7
Infective
Infectiveendocarditis
endocarditis 6060 3030 50.0
50.0
Interstitial
Interstitial
Pulmonary
Pulmonary Fibrosis
Fibrosis 588588 289
289 49.2
49.2
Asbestosis
Asbestosis 167167 7272 43.1
43.1
Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma 7777 2323 29.9
29.9
Bronchogeneic
Bronchogeneic carcinoma
carcinoma 111111 3232 28.9
28.9
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis 426426 7272 16.9
16.9
Hemiplegia
Hemiplegia 8787 1212 13.8
13.8
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mostly
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those
those
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thumbs,
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a highchance
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