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Normal Pulse |
Frequency: 4-5 beats per breath. Location: Neither floating nor deep. Force: Soft and forceful. Rhythm: Equal intervals. |
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Floating Pulse |
1) Pulse character It is just like the wood floating in water 2) Clinic meaning-Exterior or deficiency A. Floating and tight-exterior excess cold (exterior excess, cold attack) B. Floating and moderate-exterior deficiency cold (exterior deficiency, wind attack) C. Floating and rapid-- wind heat |
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Hollow Pulse |
1) Pulse character It is similar to the leaf of green Chinese onion which is hollow. 2) Clinic meaning-Loss of blood and yin depletion. |
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Tympanic pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse is large, rapid, forceful, and hollow. It looks like touching the surface of a drum. 2) Clinic meaning-blood deficiency and essence exhaustion. |
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Scattered Pulse |
1) Pulse character It looks like the flower flying in the air without trace. 2) Clinic meaning-escaping of yang and floating of vital qi. |
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Soggy Pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse is floating, thready, and soft. If pressed, it looks like the cotton in water. 2) Clinic meaning-dampness, deficiency of stomach qi, yin and blood. |
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Deep Pulse |
1) Pulse character Weak by touching and strong by pressing. It looks like the stone in the bottom of water. 2) Clinic meaning-interior. Forceful and deep-interior excess. Weak and deep-interior deficiency. |
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Hidden Pulse |
1) Pulse character Only by heavily pressing to bone, the pulse can be felt. 2) Clinic meaning: Interior. |
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Firm Pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse is characterized by hard, firm and fixed vessel which is located in the deep level. 2) Clinic meaning: Interior excess cold. It is often found in abdominal mass, lumps, and hernia. |
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Slow Pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse rate is less than 4 beats per breath. 2) Clinic meaning: Cold syndrome. Slow and forceful-excess cold. Slow and weak-deficient cold. |
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Moderate Pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse rate is 4 beats per breath and moves smoothly. 2) Clinic meaning: wind or dampness attack, or a recovering condition. |
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Choppy Pulse |
1) Pulse character: Slow, not smooth, thready, 2) Clinic meaning: qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm or food retention, body fluid deficiency, blood deficiency. |
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Dai mai |
1) Pulse character The pulse is slow with regular intermittence. 2) Clinic meaning: Visceral exhaustion or expiring spleen qi. |
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Jie mai |
1) Pulse character The pulse is slow with irregular intermittence. 2) Clinic meaning: Exorbitant yin, qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm retention, decline of qi and blood. |
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Cu mai |
1) Pulse character The pulse is rapid with irregular intermittence. 2) Clinic meaning: Yang hyperfunction, excess heat, blood stasis, phlegm, food retention, and qi rebellion. |
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Rapid pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse rate is 6 to 7 beats per breath. 2) Clinic meaning: Heat. Thready and rapid-deficient heat. Forceful and rapid-excess heat. |
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Swift Pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse rate is more than 7 beats per breath. 2) Clinic meaning: Heat. |
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Bouncing pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse rate is rapid and slippery. At 2) Clinic meaning: Frightened, pain, |
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Weak Pulse |
1) Pulse character The vessel is thick and soft. The 2) Clinic meaning: Deficiency |
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Theady Pulse |
1) Pulse character The vessel is thin and soft like a thread. 2) Clinic meaning: Deficiency, cold attack, pain, and dampness. |
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Faint Pulse |
1) Pulse character 2) Clinic meaning: Yang exhaustion, heavy qi and blood |
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Feeble pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse is soft, deep, and thin. It can 2) Clinic meaning: Yang, qi, and blood deficiency. Especially qi deficiency. |
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Short Pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse could not be felt in all three 2) Clinic meaning: Qi diseases, qi deficiency or |
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Strong Pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse is forceful in all the three 2) Clinic meaning: Excess. |
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Wiry pulse (taut pulse) |
1) Pulse character The vessel is long, straight and 2) Clinic meaning: Disorder of liver and gallbladder, pain, |
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Tight pulse |
1) Pulse character It feels like fingers on a tightened 2) Clinic meaning: Cold and pain. |
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Long pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulsation can be felt in more than 2) Clinic meaning: Excess |
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Slippery pulse (rolling pulse) |
1) Pulse character The pulse moves quickly and smoothly 2) Clinic meaning: Phlegm, food retention, excess heat, pregnancy or menstruation. |
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Surge pulse |
1) Pulse character The pulse is large and forceful like 2) Clinic meaning: Excess heat. |