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accupunture pulses
pulses
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| superficial | easily felt,with a gentle touch, like a piece of wood floating on water.(exterior deficiency yin deficiency |
| deep | felt only on heavy pressure like a stone in water. (Interior syndrome) |
| slow | less than four beats less than 60 beats per minute, cold syndrome |
| rapid | more than five beats per breath,greater than 90 beats per minute(heat syndrome |
| deficient | forcefull pulse felt in the three regions and three levels,big but soft and empty on stronger pressure.( deficiency syndrome of qi and blood |
| excess | forcefull pulse felt in the three regions and on 3 levels of pressure,(excess syndrome |
| surging | broad, large and forcefull like the ocean waves which come with force but fade away. (Excess interior heat |
| thready | like a fine thread but very distinct and clear.(yin and blood deficiency(qi is also deficient) internal dampness with severe qi deficiency |
| rolling , slippery | smoth and flowing like pearls rolling on a dish,(phlegm dampness(phlegm and retained fluids food stagnation, excess heat, Pregnancy normal pulse |
| hesitant | rough and jagged like a knife scraping bamboo, moves slowly like a sick silkworm eating a leaf, changes rapid in rate and quality,blood and essence deficiency, Qi and blood stagnation,fluid exhaustion after sweating , vomiting |
| string -taut | straight and forcefull,like the string on the violin( dissorders of liver gallbladder,pain syndrome,phelgm and retained fluids. |
| tense | twisted, forcefull like a tightly stretched rope, may vibrate side to side( cold syndrome, pain syndrome, food retention |
| soft | superficial thready and soft like a strand of silk floating on the water) dampness with internal deficiency, deficiency of yin and essence |
| weak | deep and thready without strength) deficiency syndrome of yang qi and blood |
| abrupt | hurried and rapid,with irregular missed beats) essesive yang heat,deficiennt heart qi,stagnation of qi and blood, retention of food and phegm. |
| knotted | slow with irregular missed beats( excess yin, cold phlegm, blood stasis, deficiency of heart qi and yang |
| regularly intermittent | slow and weak with missed beats at regular intervals( declining zang qi, wind, pain syndrome,fear fright dissorders, tramumatic contusion/ sprain, western med possible organic heart dissorder |