Pulses (Dr Li)

Front 1

Floating, tight

Back 1

Taiyang shang han (wc excess)

Front 2

Floating, moderate

Back 2

Taiyang zhong feng (wc xu)

Front 3

Floating, rapid

Back 3

Wenbing wei level

Front 4

Floating & big without root

Back 4

Qi xu
Blood xu

Front 5

Floating pulse w skin edema (damp acc in the surface of the skin)

Back 5

Wind water overflowing

Front 6

When is the floating pulse normal?

Back 6

On thin people

Front 7

Which 4 other pulse go under the floating category?

Back 7

Hollow, tympanic, scattered, SOFT

Front 8

Soft, moderate

Back 8

MJ dampness

Front 9

Soft, floating

Back 9

Exterior dampness

Front 10

Soft, rapid

Back 10

MJ damp heat

Front 11

Soft pulse with SOB, fatigue

Back 11

Qi xu

Front 12

Soft pulse w dizziness, palps

Back 12

Blood xu

Front 13

Soft pulse w nightsweats, tinnitus

Back 13

Yin xu

Front 14

Soft, slow

Back 14

Xu cold

Front 15

Soft, rapid

Back 15

Damp heat

Front 16

Floating, wiry

Back 16

Migraine HA d/t exterior

Front 17

Floating, slippery

Back 17

Wind phlegm

Front 18

Give the 4 indications of the soft pulse

Back 18

1) Exterior
2) Deficiency
3) Wind water overflow
4) Normal

Front 19

Give the 2 indications of the soft pulse

Back 19

1) Dampness
2) Deficiency

Front 20

Is the soft pulse felt on the supeficial, medium or deep level?

Back 20

Superficial

Front 21

Give the 4 indications of the deep pulse

Back 21

1) Interior
2) Interior XU
3) Water retention
4) Normal

Front 22

What 5 types of interior full conditions can the deep pulse indicate?

Back 22

Qi stag, phlegm stag, damp stag, food stag, heat acc

Front 23

Deep, weak

Back 23

Interior yang qi xu

Front 24

What can be the cause of the "deep pulse" water retention?

Back 24

Heart failure, kidney failure

Front 25

Deep, slow

Back 25

Interior cold

Front 26

Deep, slow

Back 26

Interior cold

Front 27

Deep, rapid

Back 27

Interior heat

Front 28

Deep, slippery

Back 28

Phlegm/food stag or damp heat

Front 29

Deep, wiry

Back 29

Internal pain (ex liver or st pain)

Front 30

Deep, choppy

Back 30

Stagnation (qi & blood)

Front 31

Deep, moderate

Back 31

Damp water acc

Front 32

Deep, thready

Back 32

Blood xu

Front 33

Deep, tight

Back 33

Pain d/t cold acc

Front 34

Give 2 synonyms for the hesitant pulse

Back 34

Choppy, sluggish

Front 35

What 2 conditions can the hesitant pulse indicate?

Back 35

1) XU
2) XS

Front 36

What types of xu conditions can the hesitant pulse indicate? (7)

Back 36

1) Qi
2) Blood
3) Blood/BF
4) Amenorrhea
5) Dead fetus
6) Jing (infertility)
7) Blood stasis d/t xu

Front 37

What 4 types of excess conditions can the hesitant pulse indicate?

Back 37

1) Food stag
2) Phlegm stag
3) Qi stag
4) Blood stag

Front 38

Floating, hesitant

Back 38

exterior xu

Front 39

Deep, hesitant

Back 39

Interior

Front 40

Hesitant, thready

Back 40

Blood xu

Front 41

Wiry, hesitant

Back 41

Qi & blood stag

Front 42

Knotted, hesitant

Back 42

Blood stasis

Front 43

Hesitant, weak

Back 43

Essence, blood xu

Front 44

What do you need to think of when you feel a regularly intermittent pulse?

Back 44

Refer out, it's serious!

Front 45

Give 4 indications of the regularly intermittent pulse

Back 45

1) Zangfu qi exhausted
2) Acute excess condition
3) Wind condition
4) Excess of 7 emotions (ex overangry)

Front 46

Which one out of the regularly intermittent and the knotted pulse is the more severe?

Back 46

Regularly intermittent is more severe

Front 47

Explain the knotted pulse

Back 47

It's IRREGULARLY intermittent with irregular stops skipping a beat or with an extra beat

Front 48

Explain the regularly intermittent pulse

Back 48

It's slow and weak and has regular stops

Front 49

What 2 conditions are indicated by the knotted pulse?

Back 49

1) Excess
2) Zangfu Qi xu

Front 50

What 5 excess conditions can the knotted pulse indicate?

Back 50

1) Qi stag
2) Blood stasis
3) Cold phlegm acc
4) Fluid retention
5) Food stag

Front 51

What 3 xu conditions can the knotted pulse indicate?

Back 51

1) Qi
2) Blood
3) Jing

Front 52

Floating, knotted

Back 52

Exterior wind attack
WC attacking channels

Front 53

Deep, knotted

Back 53

Stagnation internally

Front 54

Slippery, knotted

Back 54

Phlegm stag

Front 55

Weak, knotted

Back 55

Zangfu qi xu

Front 56

How many beats per cycle does it take for the pulse to be rapid?

Back 56

MORE than 5 beats per cycle

Front 57

How many beats per breathing cycle is considered a normal pulse?

Back 57

4-5 beats per cycle

Front 58

What 4 indications does the rapid pulse have?

Back 58

1) Heat
2) Xu
3) Cold
4) Normal in children

Front 59

Rapid, strong

Back 59

Lu heat, St heat, Li heat, Lu abscess, LI abscess

Front 60

Rapid, weak

Back 60

Yin xu heat or could even be ht failure

Front 61

Give 2 indications of the deficienct pulse

Back 61

1) Xu
2) Summerheat

Front 62

Describe the deficienct/feeble pulse

Back 62

Forceless in all 3 positions, becomes hollow or disappears when pressing

Front 63

Floating, deficient with spont sweating

Back 63

Qi xu

Front 64

Deep, deficient

Back 64

Internal xu (qi, blood, yang, yin, Jing)

Front 65

Hesitant, deficient

Back 65

Blood xu

Front 66

Rapid, deficient

Back 66

Yin xu

Front 67

Slow, deficient

Back 67

Xu cold (MJ)

Front 68

Wiry, deficient

Back 68

Sp xu, Liver attacking

Front 69

Give 3 indications of the thready pulse

Back 69

1) Xu
2) Dampness
3) Yang xu/ yin xs

Front 70

Give 2 examples of damp conditions causing a thready pulse

Back 70

1) MJ dampness
2) BI pain, damp BI

Front 71

Floating, thready

Back 71

Wind damp

Front 72

Deep thready

Back 72

Internal xu, damp BI (joint pain)

Front 73

Thready, moderate

Back 73

Dampness

Front 74

Thready, rapid

Back 74

Yin xu, blood xu with heat

Front 75

Hesitant, thready

Back 75

Blood xu or blood stasis

Front 76

Thready, faint

Back 76

Yang xu, yin xs (true cold, false heat)

Front 77

Explain the weak pulse

Back 77

It's very soft, deep and thin and can only be felt in the deep level with pressing

Front 78

Give 2 indications of the weak pulse

Back 78

1) Xu
2) Yang xu/yin xs

Front 79

Hesitant, weak

Back 79

Blood xu

Front 80

Weak slippery

Back 80

St/sp qi xu with phlegm of food stag

Front 81

Faint, weak

Back 81

Extreme yang xu

Front 82

Rapid, weak

Back 82

Yin xu, loos of too much blood

Front 83

Give 5 indications of the wiry/ sting-taut pulse

Back 83

1) Liv/GB pulse
2) Xu (ex Li blood or consumptive disease like TB or cancer)
3) Phlegm fluids retention
4) Pain
5) Malaria

3)

Front 84

Floating, string-taut

Back 84

HA d/t exterior attack

Front 85

Rapid, string-taut

Back 85

Liv heat/fire

Front 86

Deep, string-taut

Back 86

Liv yin xu, int organ dysfx

Front 87

Tight, string-taut

Back 87

Stagnation cold, extreme pain

Front 88

Slippery, string-taut

Back 88

Phlegm heat/fire

Front 89

Large, string-taut, weak

Back 89

Xu condition

Front 90

How do u expain the tight/tense pulse?

Back 90

Like a twisted rope, feels forceful

Front 91

Give 3 indications of the tense pulse

Back 91

1) Cold syndrome (ext/int)
2) Pain (cold pain usually)
3) Food stag

Front 92

Tense, floating

Back 92

WC, taiyang shanghan

Front 93

Deep, tense

Back 93

Internal cold (icecream acute pain)

Front 94

string-taut, tense

Back 94

Food stag, phlegm fluid retention

Front 95

Hesitant, tense

Back 95

Pain d/t blood stasis, period pain

Front 96

Which pulse is like a bead roling in a plate?

Back 96

Slippery/rolling pulse

Front 97

Give 6 indications of the roling pulse

Back 97

1) Phlegm fluids retention
2) Food stag
3) XS heat
4) Blood acc internally
5) Pregnancy
6) Normal

Front 98

Rolling, floating

Back 98

Wind-phlegm (ex bell's paulsy)

Front 99

Rolling, deep

Back 99

Phlegm food stag

Front 100

Rolling, rapid

Back 100

Phlegm heat/fire, damp heat

Front 101

Rolling, string taut

Back 101

Fluids, phlegm retention

Front 102

Rolling, strong

Back 102

XS heat

Front 103

Which pulse is extremely big and comes like a wave in the ocean?

Back 103

Surgning/ flooding pulse

Front 104

Give 4 indications of the surgning pulse

Back 104

1) XS heat (ex qi level)
2) Internal acc (abcess, parasites)
3) Xu
4) Summertime

Front 105

Surgning, floating

Back 105

Summerheat, exterior

Front 106

Surgning, deep

Back 106

Internal heat

Front 107

Surgning, tight

Back 107

Substantial acc, abscess

Front 108

Surgning, slippery

Back 108

Phlegm heat/fire

Front 109

Surging, hollow

Back 109

Feverish disease later stages

Front 110

Which pulse is forceful in all 3 positions both on light and heavy pressure?

Back 110

The strong/excess pulse

Front 111

Give 4 indications of the excess pulse

Back 111

1) XS yang (fire/heat)
2) Yangming FU
3) Yin cold XS (pulse and sx do not match)
4) Righteous qi xu (evil qi strong-bad sign)

Front 112

Excess, floating

Back 112

Exterior xs

Front 113

Deep, excess

Back 113

Internal xs (food stag or yangming fu)

Front 114

Surgning, excess

Back 114

XS heat

Front 115

Rolling, excess

Back 115

Phlegm heat/fire