脉诊 28脉 Pulse Diagnosis: 28 Pulses

Question 1

浮脉 Floating, Superficial

Answer 1

Exterior, W-C (if t ight), W-H (if rapid), Yin deficiency (if weak), Severe interior Qi deficiency (i.e. anemia, c.ancer)

Question 2

沉脉Deep, Sinking

Answer 2

Interior, Qi/Biood stasis (if full), Yang deficiency (if weak)

Question 3

迟脉 Slow

Answer 3

Cold, Full Cold (if fu ll), Empty Cold (if weak)

Question 4

数脉 Rapid

Answer 4

Heat, Full Heat (if fu ll ), Empty Heat (if floating-empty)

Question 5

虚 脉Empty, Deficient, Vacuous

Answer 5

Qi/Biood deficiency

Question 6

实脉 Full, Excess, Replete

Answer 6

Excess, Full Heat (if rapid), Full Cold (if slow)

Question 7

长脉 Long

Answer 7

Heat pattern

Question 8

短 脉Short

Answer 8

Severe Qi deficiency, ST Qi deficiency

Question 9

洪脉Surging, Flooding

Answer 9

Full Heat, Empty Heat (if empty)

Question 10

细 脉Thin, fine, thready

Answer 10

Blood deficiency, Damp with severe Qi deficiency

Question 11

滑脉 Slippery, Rolling

Answer 11

Accumulation of Phlegm, Damp or Food (if full), Phlegm or Damp with Qi deficiency (if weak), Normal in pregnancy

Question 12

微脉 Minute, Faint

Answer 12

Severe deficiency of Qi and Blood

Question 13

紧脉 Tight, Tense

Answer 13

Cold, Exterior Cold (if floating), Interior Full Cold (if full-deep), Interior Empty Cold (if weak-deep), Pain

Question 14

缓脉 Slow down, Moderate

Answer 14

Generally a healthy pulse

Question 15

弦脉 Wiry, String-taut

Answer 15

LV disharmony, Pain, Phlegm

Question 16

芤(kōu) 脉 Hollow, Scallion

Answer 16

Hemorrhage, Forthcoming hemorrhage (if rapid)

Question 17

革(gé) 脉 Leather, Drumskin

hard and tight at superficial level

Answer 17

Severe deficiency of KD Essence or KD Yin

Question 18

牢(láo)脉 Firm, Confined

wiry pulse at deep level

Answer 18

Blood stasis, Interior Cold (if slow), Pain

Question 19

濡脉 Soggy (weak floating), Soft

Answer 19

Damp with Qi deficiency, Yin deficiency, Essence deficiency

Question 20

弱脉 Weak, Frail

Answer 20

Yang deficiency, Blood deficiency

Question 21

散脉 Scattered

broken into small dots, superficial, small

Answer 21

Severe deficiency of Qi/Biood or KD Qi, Serious condition

Question 22

涩脉 Choppy, Hesitant, rough

like a knife scraping bamboo or a sick silkworm eating a mulberry leaf

Answer 22

Blood deficiency, Body fluid exhaustion (i.e. following profuse sweating or vomiting)

Question 23

伏(fú)脉 Hidden

extreme case of deep, felt as if hidden beneath bone

Answer 23

Severe Yang deficiency

Question 24

动脉 Moving, Stirred, Spinning Bean

jumps like a bean, slippery rapid

Answer 24

Shock, anxiety, fright, Pain

Question 25

促(cù)脉 Hasty, Abrupt, Skipping, Hurried

rapid skips beats irregularly

Answer 25

Severe Heat, HT Qi deficiency, HT Fire

Question 26

结脉, Knotted, Bound

slow skips beats irregularly

Answer 26

Cold, HT Qi or Yang deficiency, Blood stasis

Question 27

代脉 Intermittent, Regularly Intermittent

Answer 27

Serious problem in internal organs (if stops every 4 beats or less, more serious), HT problem (in western medicine)

Question 28

大脉, Big

Answer 28

Heat in ST or Intestines/

Entrance of disease (with force), Outward floating of Yang vacuity (without force)