Medical Background
What is the main thing you would like help with?
(Describe in your own words what you experience)
If you have been given a Western
Medicine diagnosis what is it?
When did the condition begin?
What were the related circumstances?
To what extent does this condition
interfere with your daily activities (work, sleep, exercise,
sex, etc.)
Please list any chronic illnesses or
conditions you have had or have now.
Please list major childhood illnesses
you have had.
Please list any surgeries you have had.
Please list any significant trauma you
have had.
Do you have or have you had any of the
conditions listed below?
Please list all drugs and herbs that
you take.
Perspiration
Do you:
Temperature
What is your subjective sense of your body temperature?
Do you:
Sleep
Do you:
Have
difficulty going to sleep?Awaken
during the night? What time?
Have
difficulty returning to sleep?
Sleep shallowly?
Have dreams
disturb your sleep?
Have
difficulty awakening in the morning?
Feel tired or
sleepy during the day?
Need to take naps?
Feel "wired and
tired"?
Get a
"second wind" at night?
Exercise
What kind and how much exercise do you get weekly?
Are your symptoms and signs:
better with
exercise? worse
with exercise?
How is your general energy level? Sufficient
Too Much
Too Little
How is your energy level after eating? Same
Increased
Decreased
How does your energy level vary during
the day?
Do you:
Have shortness of
breath?
Have
shortness of breath on slight exertion?
Have loose
stools?
Digestion and Diet
What percentage of your diet is cooked?
What percentage (rough estimate) of
your diet is:
Do you:
Appetite:
poor
good
excessive
constant
Do you crave these tastes
salty,
sour,
bitter,sweet,
spicy?
Avoid these tastes
salty,
sour,
bitter,sweet,
spicy?
Have gas?
flatulence
or
belching?
Have
nausea or
vomiting?
Stools
What color are your stools? Does it vary?
How many bowel movements do you have in
a day?
What time(s) do they occur?
Do You:
Urine
What color is your urine (without
vitamins)?
How often do you urinate in a day?
Is your liquid intake about equal to
your output?
Do You:
Awaken at night to
urinate? How many times?
Reproduction
How often do you engage in
sexual activity?
Do you:
Have low
sexual energy?
Have
excessive sexual energy?
Have pain during sex?
Have premature
ejaculation?
Have seminal
emission?
Have a discharge
from your genitals?
Have pain in your
genitals?
Have itching in/on
your genitals?
Experience impotence?
Are you pregnant now
or have reason to believe you are?
How many pregnancies have you had?
How many children have you borne?
Have you had any miscarriages? How many ?
Have you had any abortions? How many?
How long is your menstrual cycle?
days
Is it
regular? How long is your menstrual flow?
What color is your menstrual flow?
Do you use birth control pills? If so, name of pill?
How long?
Respiration
-
Do you have:
A cough?
dry
wet
hacking
productive
unproductive
blood
clear sputum
colored sputum
copious sputum
small amounts of sputum
difficulty expectorating
Constricted
nasal passages? Sinus: congestionpaininfections
Pain
- Do you have:
Headaches? Where?
Eyes
- Do you:
Ears
- Do you:
Have
difficulty hearing?
Have a ringing in your ears? High-pitched
Low-pitched
Have ear pain?
Feel pressure in your ears?
Have discharges from your ears?
Nose
Is your nose
obstructed?
Do you have nosebleeds?
Is your nose dry?
Mouth
- Do you have:
Teeth
What is the condition of your teeth.
Do you have tooth pain?
Throat
Muscles
-
Do you have:
Muscle weakness? Where
Muscle tension? Where
Muscle aches? Where
Muscle cramps? Where
Muscle tics? Where
Muscle
spasms? Where
Miscellaneous
Are any of these categories of emotion
predominant?
Fear
Anger
Joy
Shock
Worry
Sadness
Have you recently had any exceptionally
stressful experiences.
Do you:
Have a feeling of heaviness? Body
Head
Limbs
Have swelling due to retention of
fluids? Where?
Please list additional information or
concerns you wish to address.