How do I know if my body is out of balance according to Tibetan medicine?

Your body speaks constantly. In Tibetan medicine, imbalance shows up as patterns, not isolated symptoms. Excess wind might feel like anxiety, dry skin, constipation, and restless sleep all at once—they're connected. Too much bile brings inflammation, sharp pains, irritability, and burning sensations. Phlegm imbalance shows as heaviness, sluggishness, congestion, and that stuck feeling in your joints. The real art is seeing these threads together. I've noticed people often treat symptoms separately—take a pill for digestion, another for sleep—without asking if one imbalance is causing them all. A Tibetan doctor reads you differently. They check your pulse, your tongue, your energy, how you move. They ask about your digestion, sleep, temperature preferences, emotional patterns. It's detective work. The signs that tell you something's shifting: your digestion improves, you sleep more naturally, anxiety loosens its grip, your skin clears. These aren't random improvements—they're evidence that balance is returning. Before you assume something is wrong, notice the patterns in your own life. What always happens together? That's usually your answer.