脉诊 28脉 Pulse Diagnosis: 28 Pulses Flashcards
Names and Indications (FCM mostly)
浮脉 Floating, Superficial
Exterior, W-C (if t ight), W-H (if rapid), Yin deficiency (if weak), Severe interior Qi deficiency (i.e. anemia, c.ancer)
沉脉Deep, Sinking
Interior, Qi/Biood stasis (if full), Yang deficiency (if weak)
迟脉 Slow
Cold, Full Cold (if fu ll), Empty Cold (if weak)
数脉 Rapid
Heat, Full Heat (if fu ll ), Empty Heat (if floating-empty)
虚 脉Empty, Deficient, Vacuous
Qi/Biood deficiency
实脉 Full, Excess, Replete
Excess, Full Heat (if rapid), Full Cold (if slow)
长脉 Long
Heat pattern
短 脉Short
Severe Qi deficiency, ST Qi deficiency
洪脉Surging, Flooding
Full Heat, Empty Heat (if empty)
细 脉Thin, fine, thready
Blood deficiency, Damp with severe Qi deficiency
滑脉 Slippery, Rolling
Accumulation of Phlegm, Damp or Food (if full), Phlegm or Damp with Qi deficiency (if weak), Normal in pregnancy
微脉 Minute, Faint
Severe deficiency of Qi and Blood
紧脉 Tight, Tense
Cold, Exterior Cold (if floating), Interior Full Cold (if full-deep), Interior Empty Cold (if weak-deep), Pain
缓脉 Slow down, Moderate
Generally a healthy pulse
弦脉 Wiry, String-taut
LV disharmony, Pain, Phlegm
芤(kōu) 脉 Hollow, Scallion
Hemorrhage, Forthcoming hemorrhage (if rapid)
革(gé) 脉 Leather, Drumskin
hard and tight at superficial level
Severe deficiency of KD Essence or KD Yin
牢(láo)脉 Firm, Confined
wiry pulse at deep level
Blood stasis, Interior Cold (if slow), Pain
濡脉 Soggy (weak floating), Soft
Damp with Qi deficiency, Yin deficiency, Essence deficiency
弱脉 Weak, Frail
Yang deficiency, Blood deficiency
散脉 Scattered
broken into small dots, superficial, small
Severe deficiency of Qi/Biood or KD Qi, Serious condition
涩脉 Choppy, Hesitant, rough
like a knife scraping bamboo or a sick silkworm eating a mulberry leaf
Blood deficiency, Body fluid exhaustion (i.e. following profuse sweating or vomiting)
伏(fú)脉 Hidden
extreme case of deep, felt as if hidden beneath bone
Severe Yang deficiency
动脉 Moving, Stirred, Spinning Bean
jumps like a bean, slippery rapid
Shock, anxiety, fright, Pain
促(cù)脉 Hasty, Abrupt, Skipping, Hurried
rapid skips beats irregularly
Severe Heat, HT Qi deficiency, HT Fire
结脉, Knotted, Bound
slow skips beats irregularly
Cold, HT Qi or Yang deficiency, Blood stasis
代脉 Intermittent, Regularly Intermittent
Serious problem in internal organs (if stops every 4 beats or less, more serious), HT problem (in western medicine)
大脉, Big
Heat in ST or Intestines/
Entrance of disease (with force), Outward floating of Yang vacuity (without force)