C)Considering patient as a whole :

 

Physical generals and Mental generals:

 

Physical generals:

 

a)  Constitutional type of the patient.

 

b)  Ailments(complaints) from emotions:

 

 

B) Suppressions(discharges such as menses,sweat,leucorrhoea,catarrh ,diarrhoea) etc; Considering patient as a whole :

 

-        Eruptions,: diseases eg.malaria, rheumatic fever, syphilis, gonorrhea etc.

-        Of pathologhy eg:haemorrhoids(piles),fistula in ano,ulcers,tonsils,tumors,other surgical conditions etc;

-        From exposure to cold ,wet hot sun,etc.

-        From mechanical conditions eg overeating,injury etc.

 

c)Menses:

- date of establishment,regularity(early or late)

- duration,color,consistency(thick,thin stringy ect)odour,

-        amount,membranes,pain(by what it is increased and decreased)

-        how you are  effected before ,during and after  menses physically and mentally

-        menopause symptoms

 

d)Other discharges:

-        cause

-        color,consistency,odour,acrid,or bland not acrid

-        symptoms from suppression

-        alternating with

-        hot or cold

-        better or worse from discharges(before ,during or after)

 

e)Sleep:

-        better or worse form sleep

-        position in aggravation after

-        difficulty in getting to sleep

-        waking frequently or early ,at what hour,

-        somnambulism(walking in sleep)

-        dreams

-        restless during sleep

 

f)Restlessness:

-        prostration ,weakness,

-        trembling

-        chill ,fever etc

g).Aggravation(conditions which make the disease worse) and Ameliorations(conditions which make the disease better) referring to patient as a whole.

 

h)objective symptoms:

eg;redness of orifices

 

i)pathology which applies to patient as a whole:

-        eg:tendency to tumours,cysts,polypus,warts,moles

-        family tendency to certain diseases

-        frequency of catching cold.