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Pulse Indications
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| surging | excess heat broad, and foreful like roaring waves. |
| forceful | excess heat, excess; phlegm and food retention 6 yang healthy |
| slippery | excess heat, phlegm stagnation, food stagnation, dampness, excess pathogens |
| long | excess heat, excess pathogens |
| wiry | excess heat, pain, phlegm stagnation, food stagnation, qi and blood stagnation; lv gb; taut, straight, long. |
| rapid | excess heat, pain, phlegm stagnation, food stagnation, qi and blood stagnation. 6 or 7x, def heat. |
| tight | excess cold, pain, food stagnation; tense and forceful |
| firm | excess cold, pain, masses; hernia; deep wiry, long and forceful. |
| hidden | pain, food stagnation, excess pathogens; syncope, lack of circulation, coma |
| moving | pain,excess pathogens, shock; short, slippery, rapid and forceful. |
| intermittent regular | pain, Zheng qi xu; zang fu qi xu, wind, fear, trauma slow and weak with missed bead at regular intervals |
| hesitant, choppy, se | phlegm, food, qi and blood stagnation, blood xu; heart palpitations, consumption of essence, uneven, rapid changes in rate and strength |
| knotted | phlegm stagnation, food stagnation, qi and blood stagnation, masses; heart palpitations; slow irregular |
| short | qi and blood stagnation, qi xu, |
| thready | dampness, blood xu, yin xu;cold |
| soft | dampness, qi xu, blood xu, yin xu, yang xu; superficial, thready, and weak. |
| minute | qi xu, blood xu, yin xu, yang xu; extremely thready barely palpable. |
| scattered | qi xu; yuan qi xu; uneven rhythm, indistinctive on heavy pressing |
| forceless | qi xu, blood xu; damage by summerheat |
| weak | qi xu, blood xu; simultaneous qi and blood xu, thready and soft |
| hollow | yin xu, yang xu; great loss of blood; can not be felt in the middle, impairment of yin |
| drumskin/tympanic | blood xu; hemorrhage, spermatorrhea, abortion, heavy menstruation; large, taut, and hollow. |
| swift | yin xu; yuan qi xu; excess yang, heart palpitations; 140+, 7x and over. critical |
| large | excess pathogens, zheng qi xu; healthy if over all 6 pulses |
| deep | zheng qi xu, interior accumulations, |
| slow | excess cold, yang xu; less than 60 beats, |
| moderate/huan | dampness; spleen, stomach xu; 60-70 bpb gentle with moderate tension |
| floating | ext, yin or yang loosing root in lower body floating to top; ext, |
| rapid irregular | excess heat, pain; phlegm, food, qi and blood stagnation; arterial fibrillation, def of zang fu |