A Kampo diagnosis (shô, 証; a kind of constitutional state [ 9]) is based on history taking, inspection (including tongue), smell, listening to body sounds, and palpation of pulse and abdomen [ 10].
The four fundamental techniques that have been used by CM practitioners for thousands of years for diagnosis and treatment are: observation (looking for visible signs), auscultation and olfaction (listening and smelling), interrogation (asking questions), and palpation (felling the pulse) [ 2, 3].
"Have you seen milk morning sun brushing the tops of willow herb, nettle, thistle, in the unkempt field behind the car‑crushers?" These poets smell and listen to the landscape, as well as look at it.
But all of this chaotic exuberance -- beautiful as it is to watch and smell and listen to -- tends to conceal the scars of history, as well as the uncertainties ahead for Lake Urema and its dependent ecosystem.
Cancer and surgery had slowed me down, made me look and listen, smell and touch with the eagerness of an explorer entering uncharted territory.
Use your nose to locate any smells, and listen to the wind in the trees, the sound of children playing, the sound of cars as they go past you.
Life is good!! Enjoy your presence, enjoy the NOW! look around you, look at the objects, smell the air feel it, listen to every sound, deprive yourself from your past, forget your story, deprive yourself from your future, focus on your present you're in the NOW ;you're quiet, peaceful, happy and clear.
Bring them something to look at, listen to, touch, smell or taste".
Being active in learning information heightens your abilities to look at details more closely, smell, touch and listen more carefully.
