Abdominal diagnosis is used extensively in Asian medicine for the purpose of determining patterns of qi imbalance in the body
Recognition of the Hara as the "Root," the center, pervades the practice of acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine and all other ideas based on the classical concepts of health. As the center of the energetic system and the starting point from which many techniques of diagnosis and treatment are developed it completes or supplements the Five Elements system. The Hara itself is seen as an area that encompasses the whole abdomen.
