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53 Cards in this Set
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A racing pulse feels like?
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a) 7 or more beats per respiration
b) 120 or more beats per minute |
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A racing pulse indicates?
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a) Exuberance of yang,
b) Exhaustion of yin c) Yang desertion d) normal in children under 3 e) normal in women about to give birth |
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A tight pulse feels like?
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a) Tense, forceful, wiry
b) vibrates to L & R c) "Like a tightly stretched & twisted rope" d) 70-80 BPM considered normal |
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A moving/stirring pulse indicates?
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a) Pain pattern (intense pain where qi has gone to center of body)
b) intense fright c) c/b at any level |
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A moving/stirring pulse feels like?
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a) Rapid, short, slippery, forceful
b) felt only at the guan position c) "Like a bean moving or spinning" |
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A moderate pulse feels like?
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a) 4 beats per respiration
b) 60-64 beats per minute c) liesurely, balanced |
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A minute/faint pulse indicates?
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a) Vacuity of yang, yin, qi, & blood; points to yang qi vacuity
b) critical illness |
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A minute/faint pulse feels like?
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a) Extremely fine, soft, forceless, floating & indistinct, almost imperceptible
b) Disappears intermittently under slight pressure |
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A soft/soggy pulse indicates?
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a) Vacuity of qi & blood (loose, slack)
b) Dampness (b/c of damp qi obstructing the vessel) |
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A soft/soggy pulse feels like?
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a) Fine, floating, & forceless (small)
b) Less distinct with more pressure is applied c) "Like a strand of cotton floating on water" |
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A leather/drumskin pulse indicates?
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a) loss of blood or jing
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A Leather/Drumskin pulse feels like?
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a) A combo of hollow (taught) & wiry pulses
b) like a tight drumskin; hard on the outside and empy inside |
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A scattered pulse indicates?
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a) Dissipation of yuan qi (ST/postnatal qi exhaustion; no "production"/maintenance of yuan qi; yin is not constraining yang)
b) Impending expiry of organ qi Rootless (re: to KI/chi pulses) b/c |
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A scattered pulse feels like?
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a) indeistinct, big, & forceless at the superficial level
b) vanishes quickly with increased pressure c) "Like dandelion seeds floating in the air, without root" d) chaotic rhythm |
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A tight pulse indicates?
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a) In general, contraction, usu interior
b) Invasion by cold evil (if superficial, wind-cold; if deeper, cold interior pattern) c) Pain pattern |
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Choppy pulse indicates?
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a) generally, loss of yin fluids or ST obstruction
b) Damage to essence (loss of semen) c) vacuity of blood (anemia, fibroids; leads to coag, pooling, stasis) d) Qi stagnation (as above) |
4 items, all re: to vacuity
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Intermittent pulse indicates?
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a) Insufficiency of yuan qi
b) Vacuity of qi & blood of internal organs c) A dire pulse |
3 items
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Intermittent pulse feels like?
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a) Slow, forceless
b) Pauses at REGULAR intervals |
2 items: 1 is the category
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Knotted pulse indicates?
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a) qi stagnation
b) blood stasis c) If forceful, cold phlegm due to exuberance of yin d) If forceless, yang vacuity |
4 items
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Knotted pulse feels like?
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Slow with pauses at IRREGULAR intervals
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Hasty pulse indicates?
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a) Full heat due to exhuberance of yang
b) Qi stagnation or blood stasis |
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Hasty pulse feels like?
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Rapid with pauses at irregular intervals
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Hidden pulse indicates?
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a) INVERSION PATTERN(sudden loss of consciousness w cold limbs)
b) EXTREME PAIN (esp of long duration) c) DEPRESSED EVIL(one that sits on the vessel; cold or heat w obstructed channels) d) VIOLENT VOMITING/DIARRHEA causing yin exhaustion and yang desertion |
4 items all specific
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Hidden pulse feels like?
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a) Deeper than deep
b) can't be felt except under considerable pressure near bone level in all 6 positions |
2 items
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Weak pulse indicates?
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Vacuity of qi & blood
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Weak pulse feels like?
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Deep, fine, forceless
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3 modifiers, 1 = category
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Firm/confined pulse indicates?
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a) Internal yin-cold repletion
b) Qi stagnation (hernia) c) Blood stasis (abdominal masses) |
3 items
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Firm pulse feels like?
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a) Deep, wiry, long, & forceful
b) Must use deep pressure to feel it |
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Hollow pulse indicates?
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a) external excess + internal vacuity
b) acute/heavy bleeding, trauma, shock |
2 items; 1 TCM, 1 bio
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Hollow pulse feels like?
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a) Floating & large under slight pressure
b) Empty in the middle with heavier pressure (like the stalk of a scallion) c) More substantial at the edges than the center d) Softer than a leather/drumskin pulse |
4 items
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Wiry pulse indicates?
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a) Liver or gall bladder disorder
b) Pain pattern c) Phlegm-rheum (damp accumulation) d) Shao yang disease (1/2 & 1/2; malaria) |
4 items: 1 is re: to organs, 2 are patterns, 1 is an ext path
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Wiry pulse feels like?
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a) Taut, straight, & long
b) Like the string of stringed musical instrument c) Opposite of weak |
3 items 1 metaphor 1 opposite
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Thin/Fine/Thready pulse indicates?
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a) Vacuity of qi, yin, or blood
b) Dampness (damp heat may obstruct vessels causing a deep pulse) |
2 items
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A Thin, fine or thready pulse feels like?
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a) Thin & forceless
b) Like a well-defined thread c) Like a spider's web thread d) Thinner than a soft pulse |
4 items
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Short pulse indicates?
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a) If weak: qi vacuity (transportation is slow making blood flow uncertain)
b) If strong: qi stagnation (due to blockages caused by food accumulation that blocks qi) |
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Short pulse feels like?
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Cannot be felt simultaneously at both the cun and chi positions.
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Long pulse indicates?
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a) Heat pattern
b) Hyperactivity of liver yang c) Normal health if felt mainly at the middle level |
3 items
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Long pulse feels like?
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Can be felt beyond the cun and chi positions
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Slippery pulse indicates?
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a) Phlegm-rheum (damp accumulation)
b) Food stagnation c) Full heat d) Pregnancy |
4 items, 3 w "f" sound
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A moderate pulse indicates?
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a) health if not combined with other things
b) If weak, vacuity of ST/SP c) If fine, dampness (b/c damp blocks qi and slows the pulse) |
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Slippery pulse feels like?
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a) Smooth, flowing
b) "Like pearls rolling in a dish" c) opposite of choppy |
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Empty pulse indicates what?
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vacuity pattern, especially of qi & blood
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One item with 2 characteristics
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Empty pulse feels like?
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a) Floating, large, slow (flacid, loose)
b) Becomes soft & weak with application of pressure |
Think about Paul's rubber gloves
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Full pulse indicates what?
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a) REPLETION pattern
b) exuberant qi & blood; violent struggle between right & evil qi c) Yang ming pattern d) Qi-level pattern |
4 items: 1 is re: to 4 aspect; 1 is re to 12 channel ID
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Full pulse feels like?
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a) Forceful at all 3 levels
b) Wiry, long & hard |
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Rapid pulse indicates what?
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a) Yang heat pattern
b) Yuan qi desertion c) Empty/Rapid is Empty/Heat from YIN deficiency d) Full/Rapid is Full/Heat. |
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Rapid pulse feels like?
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5-6 beats per respiration
More than 90 beats per minute |
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Slow pulse indicates what?
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a) Internal cold or heat accumulation (forceful) c/b yang ming bowel
b) Vacuity cold (forceless) |
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Slow pulse feels like?
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a) 3 or fewer beats per respiration
b) less than 60 beats per minute |
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Deep pulse means what?
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a) An interior condition, in the YIN organs
b) Entrenched disease that will be hard to cure c) Normal in fat people, people who are reserved, and in winter |
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Deep Pulse feels like?
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Distinct only at the deep level
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Floating or superficial pulse means what?
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a) If forceful, an exterior pattern from invasion by exterior pathogen.
b) If forceless, a vacuity pattern. |
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Floating (or superficial pulse) feels like?
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a) Strong under slight pressure @ superficial level
b) Loses strength when pressure is increased. c) "Like a piece of wood floating on water" |
3 items: 1 = metaphor; 2 re: to level
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