General information includes name, sex, age, marital status, nationality, profession, native place, present address and date of first visit. The information mentioned above is helpful for doctors to get necessary data related to the disease and provides evidences for the diagnosis and treatment. For example, woman tends to have problems related to menstruation, leukorrhagia, pregnancy, delivery and child-feeding; man tends to have problems of seminal emission, spontaneous spermatorrhea, immature ejaculation and impotence; infants are delicate in viscera and tend to contract measles, varicella and diphtheria.

Young people and people in the prime of life are superabundant in qi and blood and tend to develop sthenia syndrome; the aged are deficient in qi and blood and tend to have asthenia syndrome because their viscera are weak; the middle-aged and aged are easy to have cancer, chest oppression and wind stroke; those who are engaged in a certain kind of work for a long time tend to have profession disease; and in some specific areas certain kinds of endemic and epidemic diseases are commonly encountered.

Besides, the information mentioned above is also important for writing medical record, recording and surveying the procedure of diagnosis and treatment as well as keeping contact with the patients and their relatives.