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Pulse Chart
28 Pulses
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the 5 categories of the pulses? | Abnormal Depth, Abnormal Rate, Abnormal Arrival Force, Irregular Rhythm, Abnormal Form |
| What are the 2 principles and their characteristics in the category of abnormal depth? | Floating: Obtainable w/ light pressing; Deep: Begin to obtain w/ heavy pressing |
| What are the 5 pulse names for floating? | Floating, Scallion Stalk, Soggy, Scattered, Drumskin |
| What is the pulse image for floating? | Clearly felt w/ light pressing, somewhat weak w/ heavy pressing. |
| What does a floating pulse govern? | Exterior patterns |
| What is the pulse image for scallion stalk? | Floating and large w/ an empty center, like a scallion stalk |
| What does a scallion stalk pulse govern? | Blood loss, yin damage |
| What is the pulse image for soggy? | Floating, fine and soft |
| What does a soggy pulse govern? | Governs vacuity, damp |
| What is the pulse image for scattered? | Floating, scattered w/o root, disappears w/ pressing |
| What does a scattered pulse govern? | Scattering of original Qi, imminent expiry of viscera and bowel Qi |
| What is the pulse image for drumskin? | Floating under the finger, hollow center and hard outside |
| What does a drumskin pulse govern? | Essence blood vacuity cold |
| What are the 3 pulse names for deep? | Deep, Hidden, Confined |
| What is the pulse image for deep? | Not clear w/ light pressing, clear w/ heavy pressing |
| What does a deep pulse govern? | Interior pattern, depression pattern, water swelling |
| What is the pulse image for hidden? | Clear w/ heavy pressing, finally obtained when the bone is found |
| What does a hidden pulse govern? | Blocked evil, inversion pattern, extreme pain, yang debility |
| What is the pulse image for confined? | Replete, large, string-like and long w/ heavy pressing |
| What does a confined pulse govern? | Cold accumulation flourishing internally, shan, accumulations and conglomerations |
| What are the 2 principles and their characteristics in the category of abnormal rate? | Slow: Pulse arrives slowly; Rapid: Pulse arrives rapidly |
| What are the 3 pulse names for slow? | Slow, Moderate, Rough |
| What is the pulse image for slow? | In one breath, the pulse does not come four times (<60 bpm) |
| What does a slow pulse govern? | Cold pattern |
| What is the pulse image for moderate? | Four beats in one breath, pulse arrives liesurely |
| What does a moderate pulse govern? | Spleen vacuity, damp pattern |
| What is the pulse image for rough? | Arrives roughly, slowly and stagnating, like a light knife scraping bamboo |
| What does a rough pulse govern? | Essence damage, blood depletion, Qi stagnation, blood stasis |
| What are the 3 pulse names for rapid? | Rapid, Stirred, Slippery |
| What is the pulse image for rapid? | Five or more bats in one breath (>80-90 bpm) (Racing is seven or more beats per breath, >120 bpm) |
| What does a rapid pulse govern? | Heat pattern (Racing pulse governs extreme heat, yin exhaustion floating yang) |
| What is the pulse image for stirred? | Pulse jumps like a bean, slippery, rapid and w/ force |
| What does a stirred pulse govern? | Pain pattern, palpitation pattern |
| What is the pulse image for slippery? | Arrives smoothly, the fingers feel roundness and slipperiness |
| What does a slippery pulse govern? | Phlegm food accumulation, repletion heat |
| What are the two principles and their characteristics in the category of abnormal arrival force? | Vacuous: Pulse arrives w/o force; Replete: Pulse arrives w/ force |
| What are the 3 pulse names for vacuous? | Vacuous, Faint, Weak |
| What is the pulse image for vacuous? | Lacks force, empty and vacuous w/ pressure |
| What does a vacuous pulse govern? | Dual vacuity of Qi and blood |
| What is the pulse image for faint? | Extremely fine, extremely soft, sometimes present, sometimes not |
| What does a faint pulse govern? | Slightly critical case of yang Qi debility |
| What is the pulse image for weak? | Deep, fine, w/o force |
| What does a weak pulse govern? | Insufficient Qi and blood |
| What are the 3 pulse names for replete? | Replete, Tight, Surging |
| What is the pulse image for replete? | Forceful w/ touching and pressing |
| What does a replete pulse govern? | Repletion pattern, heat pattern |
| What is the pulse image for tight? | Pulse arrives tightly and w/ force, like a twisted rope |
| What does a tight pulse govern? | Cold, pain, food storage |
| What is the pulse image for surging? | Pulse arrives like waves, arriving flourishing, departing debilitated |
| What does a surging pulse govern? | Flourishing heat |
| Irregular Rhythm does not have a principle, what is the characteristic? | Stopping w/in beats |
| What are the 3 pulse names for irregular rhythm? | Skipping, Bound, Regularly Intermittent |
| What is the pulse image for skipping? | Pulse arrives rapidly, sometimes there is a stop, stops are irregular |
| What does a skipping pulse govern? | Flourishing yang, repletion heat, phlegm flourishing, food stagnation |
| What is the pulse image for bound? | Pulse arrives moderate to slow, sometimes there is a stop, stops are irregular |
| What does a bound pulse govern? | Yin flourishing Qi bind |
| What is the pulse image for regularly intermittent? | Stops in the middle of moving, stops are regular |
| What does a regularly intermittent pulse govern? | Slight debilitation of viscera Qi, wind pattern, pain pattern, palpitations |
| What are the 5 pulse names for Abnormal Form? (there is no principle or characteristic) | Large, Fine, Long, Short, String-like |
| What is the pulse image for large? | Pulse is large and full, location is broad |
| What does a large pulse govern? | W/ force governs the entrance of disease, lacking force is outward floating of yang vacuity |
| What is the pulse image for fine? | Pulse is fine like thread, clearly felt |
| What does a fine pulse govern? | Vacuity taxation detriment w/ yin vacuity as primary, governs damp |
| What is the pulse image for long? | Tail is long and straight, longer than the original location |
| What does a long pulse govern? | Surplus of yang Qi, repletion pattern |
| What is the pulse image for short? | Tail is short, does not reach original position |
| What does a short pulse govern? | W/ force governs Qi depression, lacking force governs Qi injury |
| What is the pulse image for string-like? | Straight and long, like pressing on the string of a "qin" |
| What does a string-like pulse govern? | Liver gallbladder disease, pain pattern, phlegm rheum |
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