Pulse diag. Ch 16 for FINAL
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- Slow pulse feels like?
- 3 beats per respiration cycle or slowly for age according to chart.
- Rapid pulse feels like?
- More than 5 beats per respiration cycle or higher than normal per chart
- Long pulse indicates?
- Heat pattern
- Full pulse feels like?
- Feels full, rather hard and long. Forceful
- Full pulse indicates what?
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Pathogen.
Full/rapid is Full/heat
Full/Slow is Full/cold - Empty pulse feels like?
- Rather Big but soft. Underinflated tube, soft empty
- Empty pulse indicates what?
- Qi deficiency
- Slippery pulse feels like?
- Smooth, rounded, feeling like a pearl rolling
- Slippery pulse indicates?
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Phlegm, Dampness, retention of food or pregnancy
Full/Weak is phlegm or dampness w/QI deficiency - Choppy pulse feels like?
- Rough under the finger. Changes rapidly in rate and quality. Like cutting bamboo
- Long pulse feels like?
- Longer than normal, extending beyond normal pulse position
- Short pulse feels like?
- Occupies a shorter space than the normal position
- Fine or thin pulse feels like?
- Thinner than normal
- Wiry pulse feels like?
- Taut like a guitar string...really hits the fingers
- Hollow pulse indicates?
- Appears after a haemorrhage, or may indicate a forthcoming loss of blood
- Firm pulse feels like?
- Can ONLY be felt at the deep level. Hard and wiry
- Firm pulse indicates?
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Interior Cold, if slow
Interior stagnation and pain - Weak pulse feels like?
- Can only be felt on a deep level
- Weak pulse indicates?
- Deficiency of Yang
- Knotted pulse feels like?
- Slow and stops at irregular intervals
- Hidden pulse feels like?
- Faint, as if hidden beneath bone. VERY deep and difficult to feel
- Hidden pulse indicates?
- extreme deficiency of Yang
- Hasty pulse feels like?
- Rapid and stops at irregular intervals
- Hasty pulse indicates?
- Extreme Heat and deficiency of Heart-QI, or Heart/Fire
- Knotted pulse indicates?
- Cold and deficiency of Heart-QI or Heart-Yang
- Intermittent pulse feels like?
- Stops at regular intervals
- Intermittent pulse indicates?
- Serious internal problem of one or more Yin organs, or serious heart problem
- Wiry pulse can indicate which 3 different conditions?
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Liver disharmony
Pain
Phlegm - Floating or superficial pulse means what?
- Presence of an exterior pattern from invasion by exterior pathogen.
- Floating (or superficial pulse) feels like?
- This pulse can be felt w/light pressure of the fingers, just resting the fingers on the artery.
- Deep Pulse feels like?
- Can only be felt w/heavy pressure of the fingers. Is felt near the bone
- Deep pulse means what?
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Indicates an Interior condition, in the YIN organs
Deep/weak is deficiency of QI and Yang
Deep/full is stasis of QI or blood - Hollow pulse feels like?
- Present at the superficial level, but absent at the middle level, strong again at the deep level. Empty in middle
- Rapid pulse indicates what?
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Heat pattern
Empty/Rapid is Empty/Heat from YIN deficiency
Full/Rapid is Full/Heat. - Short pulse indicates?
- Deficiency of QI...specifically Stomach-QI
- Slow pulse indicates what?
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A cold pattern.
Slow/Empty is Empty-Cold from deficiency of Yang.
Slow/Full is Full-Cold - Fine pulse indicates?
- Deficiency of Blood/Yin.
- Choppy pulse indicates?
- Deficiency of Blood.