17 Pulses Flashcards
You can feel it with a very light touch, if you push down harder it decreases
Superficial/ floating
Only felt if you push hard
Deep
Pulse beats 3x per minute
Slow
Pulse beats 5x per minute, regular rhythm
Rapid/Quick
Pulse size is wide and force less, slack. Forceless is all 3 positions.
Deficient/weak
Pulse felt in all 3 positions and levels
Long and large
Feeling of fullness
Excess/Strong
Pulse wide and forceful, but fades gently.
Vessel wide and thick
Like a wave
Surging/flooding
Thin pulse width
Feels like fine thread and very distinct and clear
No interruption of rhythm when pushing down on pulse.
Thready/fine
Pulse moves quickly, smoothly and is slippery inside vessel.
Vessel is plump
Like a pearl rolling
Rolling/slippery
Pulse is slow and wave shaped
Not smooth
Irregular rhythm irregular strength and fullness
Hesitant/choppy
Pulse is taut, Long and forceful, whether under pressure or not.
Maintains a straight line
String-taut/wiry
Pulse rises and falls with strength and vibrates.
Picture a tightly twisted rope.
Stretched and snapping
Tense/tight
Pulse is superficial
Thin
Hits fingers without strength
Soft/soggy
Pulse is deep and thin
Hits fingers without strength
Weak/feeble
Pulse beats rapid and irregular
Fast
Abrupt/short
Pulse is slow and irregular
Missed beats but comes back immediately
Knotted
Pulse is slow and weak
Pauses at regular intervals
Will wait a beat before coming back
Regularly intermittent
What is a cold with pain and food stagnation
Like a guitar string that is too tight
Tense/tight
What is damp and deficient and hits fingers without strength and Superficial ?
Soft/soggy
Excess pulse, excess heat, stagnation and deficient.
The irregular beats can be linked to anxiety attack.
Rapid and irregular
Abrupt/short
What is slow and irregular missed beats but comes back immediately.
Excess yin
Stagnation , could be tumor mass.
Vital qi deficient
Knotted
Not common and can happen when people are panicked.
Pulse is slow and weak pauses at regular intervals and will wait a beat to come back.
Excess can cause Emotional fear and fright
Regularly intermittent
What causes an intermittent pulse?
Deficiency of Zang Qi( 5 zang organs that store qi, xue(blood),Jinye(fluids)Jing(essence)Shen(spirit)
Excess wind,pain or fear
What causes a knotted pulse ?
Excess yin(stagnation,cold) Vital qi deficiency
What causes an abrupt pulse?
Excess and stagnation
Heat
Zang fu deficiency
What three pulses have stagnation and irregular beats
Abrupt
Knotted
Regularly intermittent
What causes a soft pulse ?
Damp and deficiency
What causes a weak pulse?
Deficiency of qi and blood
Vegan
What causes a tense pulse?
Cold, pain and stagnation
What deficient and damp pulse is thin and can be peri menopausal?
Thready.
What stagnant pulse moves quickly inside the vessel and has damp and heat?
Rolling/slippery
What excess pulse is slow and not smooth with irregular rhythm and strength and can threaten abortion?
Hesitant/choppy
What excess pulse feels long and forceful and is linked to stress and emotions?
String/taut
What causes a string/taut pulse ?
Liver /Gb disease
Excess
What causes a hesitant pulse?
stagnation
Deficiency of essence
What causes a rolling pulse ?
Food stagnation,damp and heat
What causes a Thready pulse?
Deficiency and damp
Vegan/vegetarian
What pulses are in the excess category
Excess Surging Rolling String taut Abrupt
What causes a superficial pulse?
Deficiency
What pulse is exterior and deficient ?
Superficial
What causes a deep pulse ?
Interior syndrome
What pulse is interior and deep?
Deep
What causes a slow pulse ?
Cold and qi deficiency
What deficient pulse is cold and beast 3xper breath
Slow
What causes a rapid pulse ?
Heat
What pulse is fast, hot and can be linked to anxiety, beats 5xper breath?
Rapid
What causes a deficient pulse?
Deficiency
What pulse is deficient and forceless
Deficient
What causes an excess pulse ?
Excess
What excess pulse can be felt in all 3 positions and all 3 levels
Excess
What causes a surging pulse?
Heat in the qi level
What is Yang Ming pulse ?
Surging (big pulse,big thirst big sweat)
Why would a pulse be wide?
Excess heat moves qi and blood to expand vessels.
Why would a pulse be narrow/thin?
Insufficient yin makes Yang float out, blood fails to fill vessels.
Depth, why would a pulse be superficial?
Yang pushing qi outward due to insufficiency of yin able to control yang.
Why would a pulse be deep?
Yang qi deficient to push outward.
Why would a pulse be forceful?
Stagnation of qi and blood build up or qi has to be excess to fight off invasion of pathogens.
Why would pulse be forceless?
Qi deficiency which fails to fill and move blood
Why would the pulse have a faster rate
Yang qi hyperactivity.
Why would pulse rate be slow?
Yang qi deficiency or obstruction of yang by pathogenic cold.
Why would a pulse be long?
Excess qi makes blood flow and overfill vessels
Why would a pulse be short?
Qi deficiency fail to activate blood flow.
Why would pulse have an irregular rhythm?
Heart qi fails to keep blood moving.
Why would a pulse be taught?
Qi stagnation constricts vessels
Why would pulse be slack?
Qi deficiency fails to move blood and fill vessels
What changes shape of pulse?
Severe qi deficiency causes blood or essence fail to fill vessels and cause shape change
What is a complex pulse?
A combination or two or more pulses
What is a simple pulse?
One pulse opposed to a complex pulse of two or more.
