"Mr. Lin, could you take a look? My little girl has been complaining about her stomach hurting for the past two days and doesn't want to eat." In the afternoon, a woman brought a five or six-year-old girl to see the doctor.
The little girl's complexion looked very poor.
Her face was pale, lips white; Lin Miao asked a few questions and looked at her tongue, noticing it was red with a thick, greasy coating.
He asked about her bowel movements and then took her pulse.
Diagnosing children by pulse is usually challenging, as it's hard to determine internal ailments from the pulse alone; one can only differentiate between floating, sinking, slow, and strong pulse without seeking a specific pattern.
Moreover, when diagnosing children by pulse, typically only one finger is used, colloquially called "one finger three gates," meaning the index or thumb of the right hand is used to press on the child's wrist to check the pulse.
