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28 pulse Flashcards

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FLOATING PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • pulse feels distinct only on light touch and slightly weakened on pressing
  • “the wood floating in the water”

Exterior syndrome

  • exterior / EPF
  • deficiency
  • upward escape of Yang Qi
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DEEP PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • pulse feels distinct only on heavy pressing

Interior syndrome

  • interior deficiency : deep and feeble
  • interior excess : deep and energetic
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SLOW PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • frequency less than 60/min

Cold syndrome

  • deficiency cold : slow and feeble
  • excess cold : slow and energetic
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RAPID PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • frequency faster than 90/min

Heat Syndrome

  • deficiency heat: rapid and feeble
  • excess heat: rapid and energetic
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FLOODING PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • pulse feels full, large and coming vigorously like waves surging and going gently
  • “tide waves”

Exuberance of Qi & Hyperactivity of Fire
- febrile heat in qi level

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INDISTINCT PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • pulse feels extremely soft and thready, discernible at one moment, indistinct at another

Collapse of Yang
- extreme exhaustion of Qi & Blood

(“rootless” pulse)

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THREADY PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • pulse feels thin and feeble, yet easily perceptible

Exhaustion of Qi & Blood, or other kinds of deficiency
really thin, not enough contents in the vessels

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SCATTERED PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • floating, diffusing on light touch and faint on heavy pressing: irregular rhythm

Exhaustion of Heart Qi

  • or failure of Qi of Viscera
  • Yuan Qi exhausted

(rootless pulse, no form or shape, energy webs away, if you feel it, it is not scattered, you can’t feel the pulse bc it dissipates underneath your fingers)

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FEEBLE PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • pulse feels soft, feeble, and hollow

Deficiency of Qi & Blood, or the depletion of body fluids

(Qi & Blood in vessel is not full, thus there is no tension on the vessels, pulse is not thin)

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FULL PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels vigorous in coming and going, and energetic on light touch and heavy pressing too

Excess condition

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SLIPPERY PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels slippery white it comes and goes

Excess

  • existence of phlegm
  • dyspepsia

Normal: pregnancy

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CHOPPY PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels unsmooth while coming and going, like the scrapping of bamboo with a knife

Deficiency of Blood, Essence, or body fluids
- stagnation of Qi and Blood

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LONG PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels extending longer than Cu-Guan-Chi

Healthy state - long and moderate pulse

Both pathogenic evil and righteous Qi are exuberant: long and stiff pulse

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SHORT PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • distinct only at Bar or of a short extent
  • Deficiency of Qi and/or Blood: short and feeble pulse
  • Depression of Vital Energy: short and energetic
  • Accumulation of Phlegm: short and energetic
  • Dyspepsia - short and energetic
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WIRY PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels straight and long, like a string of a musical instrument

Hyperactivity of Liver & Gallbladder
- pain

(tense, energy is stuck)

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HOLLOW PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels floating, large, and hollow, like the leaf of a Chinese scallion

Sudden profuse loss of Blood
- a critical depletion of Yin

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TIGHT PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels tense and energetic, like a cord stretched tight

Existence of Cold

  • pain
  • dyspepsia
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MODERATE PULSE

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  • pulse with diminished tension and moderate frequency

Healthy State

  • dampness
  • debility of SP and ST
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LEATHERY PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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

Loss of blood, such as premature labor, metorrhagia, or permatorrhea

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FIRM PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels replete, energetic, long and slightly stringy: it can only be felt on heavy pressing

Internal Accumulation of Yin Cold

  • hernia
  • mass in abdomen
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WEAK PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels extremely soft, feeble, and thready: it can be felt only on heavy pressing

Deficiency of Qi & Blood

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SOGGY PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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

Deficiency syndrome
- dampness

(also feels sticky and wet, fading and thin)

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HIDDEN PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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

Syncope

  • severe pain
  • internal blockage due to pathogenic evils
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MOVING PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels slippery, rapid, and energetic, like bouncing pea

State of being frightened
- pain

(more excessive than short pulse, short pulse is more deficient)

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HASTY PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels hasty and rapid, with irregular intermittence

Exuberance of excess heat

  • stagnation of Qi & Blood
  • retention of phlegm fluid
  • dyspepsia
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KNOTTED PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • pulse is slow with IRREGULAR intervals

Stagnation of Qi & Blood
no pattern to the pulse

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INTERMITTENT PULSE - characteristics and clinical signification?

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  • feels weak and slow, with pausing at REGULAR intervals

Disorder of HT
- debility of Viscera

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HURRIED PULSE

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  • pulse’s frequency is about 120 - 140 / min

Hyperactivity of Yang
- exhaustion of Yin

Fall 2013 / FCM 3 (10 decks)

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