However, Chinese medicine is different. Chinese medicine pays attention to looking, smelling and asking. "Looking" means looking at your face, "smelling" means listening to the patient's illness, "asking" means asking about your daily life and physical discomfort, and "cutting" means touching your wrist, which is actually taking the pulse.
In ancient medicine, there were not so many instruments to detect a person's physical condition. Doctors themselves are the best tools. They will understand the function of the body by taking the pulse, because in the process of taking the pulse, different diseases of the body will have different reactions to the pulse condition.
For example, we often say that the best diagnosis is the pulse of pregnancy, because it is said that the pulse of pregnancy is like a sliding bead, which can be easily felt by a slightly experienced Chinese medicine practitioner. Similarly, whether you are yin deficiency or yang deficiency, you will have different manifestations in pulse condition.
A famous old Chinese doctor has to go through repeated clinical practice for many years. They contact different patients, just like a big data analysis instrument, and prescribe the right medicine according to different pulse conditions and patients' symptoms.
Now many high-tech internet companies are also trying to make instruments such as bracelets to detect people's physical condition according to their pulse. For the simplest example, according to the pulse condition, we can measure a person's heart rate and blood pressure, and whether the heart rate and blood pressure are normal is also a sign of a person's full health.
Chinese medicine and western medicine have their own advantages. As long as it can cure the disease, it is trustworthy.