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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Full | can be felt at all locations on all levels, long and large giving a feeling of fullness indicates accumulation of excess pathogenis and strong qi |
| 6 yang pulse | Healthy lot of qi and xue |
| empty (xu Mai) | forceless indicates def |
| Weak Ruo mai) | felt deep thready and soft. felt in deep level with heavy pressing. Def |
| Minute (wei mai) | extremely thready, weak and barely palpable, uncountable on pressing; weaker than weak and empty |
| knotted | slow pulse with irregular intervals; qi stagnation; excessive yin, cold phlegm blood stasis, food retention and abdominal masses |
| knotted and floating | slow pulse with irregular intervals; coldness blocking the channel--masses |
| knotted and deep | accumulation in interior |
| knotted and slippery | chronic phlegm retention (arthritis) |
| knotted and wiry | qi stagnation; chronic asthma |
| knotted and weak | qi and blood def |
| dai mai regualar intermittent | slow weak and missing beats at regualar intervals. exhaustion of Zang qi and insufficiency |
| Cu mai hasty | yang pulse; rapid beating with irregular intermittence, excess condition food retention etc. severe depletion of yuan qi |
| Wiry | taut, straight and long; liver and gb disease pain, phlegm, old people normally wiry. liver fails to disperse and regulate qi |
| wiry rapid | yang heat syndrome |
| wiry and tight | cold yin syndrome |
| wiry and slippery | phlegm and body fluid retention/est. wind attack as in Bell's Palsy |
| wire and moderate | liver invading spleen/diarrhea |
| tight | tense and forceful like a stretched rope cold syndrome and pain |
| tight floating | ext cold syndrome |
| tight deep | int cold |
| tight surging | due to abscess i.e. pus with fever; infectin |
| tympanic | leather superficial by light toughing; large, taut, and hollow. loss of blood or fluids. insufficient yin and blood causing yang to float up |
| soggy pulse | superficial thready weak and soft; def syndrome and dampness |