D & D Pulses
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- choppy feels like
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"a knife scraping bamboo"
Flows without a wave.
Opposite of slippery.
Felt within each position separately.
Slow, relaxed, stagnant, difficult, fine, small, short.
Rough, jagged, and short. - weak feels like
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Deep, fine, like soft thread, relatively forceless.
Cannot be felt superficially.
No strength. - intermittent feels like
- stops at REGULAR intervals which may be strikingly long.
- knotted feels like
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stops at IRREGULAR intervals.
slower pulse - floating feels like
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"plank in water"
With finger raised it has surplus, when pressing down it is insufficient.
Felt clearly superficially, pushes down with resistance - Deep feels like
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can only be felt at middle and deep, but especially at deep.
opposite of floating.
sunken under muscle, near bone. - empty feels like
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Has no strength, disappears with light pressure.
HAS WAVE.
Soft, but relatively big and distended superficially.
Forceless. - Full feels like
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Hard, full, and long. Springy quality resistant to finger pressure.
Easily felt at all levels.
Forceful. - Tight feels like
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Hard, like a rope being twisted.
Size and strength are greater than wiry.
Not as springy as wiry pulse. - Wiry feels like
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If you push it down, it springs back up. Hits the finger with force superficially.
Taut strings of a musical instrument. - Slow feels like
- pulse rate below 60 bpm
- Rapid feels like
- pulse rate above 90 bpm
- slippery feels like
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"string of pearls being pulled under a cloth"
soft wave, slips under finger and flows smoothly.