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28 Abnormal Pulse Conditions Flashcards

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Floating Pulse

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Distinct only on light touch and slightly weakened with pressing – Like Wood floating in Water

Exterior Syndrome - with pressure gets stronger
Deficiency Syndrome - with pressure, disappears

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Deep Pulse

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Distinct only on heavy pressing

Interior Syndrome
Interior Deficiency - deep and feeble
Interior Excess - deep and energetic

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Slow Pulse

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A pulse whose frequency is less than 60 bpm

Cold Syndrome
Deficiency Cold - Slow and feeble
Excess Cold - Slow and energetic

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Rapid Pulse

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A pulse whose frequency is faster than 90 bpm

Heat Syndrome
Deficiency Heat - Rapid and feeble
Excess Heat - Rapid and energetic

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Flooding Pulse

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Pulse feels full and large, coming like waves surging and going gently “the tide waves”

An exuberance of Qi and the hyperactivity of fire

Febrile heat at the Qi level

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Indistinct Pulse

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Pulse feels extremely soft and thready, discernible one moment and indistinct at another. (Rootless)

The collapse of Yang

The exteme exhaustion of Qi and Blood.

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Thready Pulse

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Pulse feels think and feeble, yet easily perceptible.

The exhaustion of Qi and Blood, or other kinds of defiency.

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Scattered Pulse

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Pulse feels floating, diffusing on light touch and faint on heavy pressing with irregular rhythm

The exhaustion of Heart Qi

or failure of Qi of viscera

Yuan Qi exhausted

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Feeble Pulse

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Pulse feels soft, feeble and hollow

The deficiency of Qi and Blood, or the depletion of body fluids.

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Full Pulse

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Pulse feels vigorous in coming and going, and energetic on light and heavy pressing.

Excess Syndrome

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Slippery Pulse

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Feels slippery while it comes and goes… like a pearl

Excess Syndrome
Phlegm
Dyspepsia - Food stagnation
Pregnancy

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Choppy Pulse

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Pulse feels unsmooth while coming and going, like the scraping of bamboo with a knife

Deficiency of Blood, Essence or body fluids

The stagnation of Qi and Blood

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Long Pulse

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Pulse feels extending longer than Cun-Guan-Chi

Healthy State = long and moderate pulse

both the pathogenic evil and the righteous qi are exuberant = long and stiff pulse

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Short Pulse

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Pulse that is distinct only at Bar or of a short extent

The deficiency of qi and Blood = Short and feeble
The depression of vital energy = short and energetic
The accumulation of phlegm = short and energetic
Dyspepsia = short and energetic

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Wiry Pulse

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Pulse feels straight and long, like the string of a musical instrument

Hyperactivity of Liver and Gallbladder
Pain
Retention of Phlegm or Fluid

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Hollow Pulse

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Pulse feels floating, large, and hollow, like a chinese scallion

Sudden, profuse loss of blood
Critical depletion of Yin

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Tight Pulse

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Pulse feels tense and energetic, like a cord stretched tight

Cold
Pain
Dyspepsia

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Moderate Pulse

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A pulse with diminished tension and moderate frequency

Healthy state
Dampness syndrome
Debility of Spleen and Stomach

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Leather Pulse

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Pulse feels floating, stringy, exteriorly taut and interiorly hollow, like a drum surface

A loss of blood, such as in premature labor, metorrhagia, or spermatorrhea

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Firm Pulse

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Pulse feels replete, energetic, long, and slightly stringy and can only be felt with heavy pressing

Internal accumulation of Yin Cold
Hernia
Mass in abdomen

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Weak Pulse

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Pulse feels extremely soft, feeble and thready and can only be felt with heavy pressing

Deficiency of Qi and Blood

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Soggy Pulse

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Pulse feels floating, thready, and soft on light touch, but faint on heavy pressing.

Deficiency Syndrome
Dampness Syndrome

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Hidden Pulse

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Pulse feels deeper than the deep pulse and it can be felt only on pressing hard to the bone

Syncope (fainting)
Severe pain
Internal blockage due to pathogenic evils

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Moving Pulse

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Pulse feels slippery, rapid, and energetic like a bouncing pea

A state of being frightened
Pain
Pregnancy

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Hasty Pulse

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Pulse feels hasty and rapid with irregular intermittance

Exuberance of Excess Heat
Stagnation of Qi and Blood
Retention of Phlegm Fluid
Dyspepsia

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Knotted Pulse

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Pulse is slow with irregular intervals

Stagnation of Qi and Blood

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Intermittant Pulse

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Pulse feels weak and slow with pausing at irregular intervals

A disorder of Heart
Debility of Viscera

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Hurried Pulse

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Pulse whose frequency is 120 - 140 bpm

The hyperactivity of Yang
Exhaustion of Yin

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