Floating Pulses

Question 1

FLOATING PULSES are felt when _______ pressure is applied; There ____ number of floating pulses

Answer 1

LIGHT 7

Question 2

FLOODING PULSE is floating. It feels

Answer 2

strong, full , rough, as it rises and falls

Question 3

EMPTY PULSE is floating. It feels

Answer 3

weak, full and soft, slower

Question 4

SCATTERED PULSE is floating. It feels

Answer 4

feels more diffuse than an empty pulse BUT dissapears when pressure is applied

Question 5

HOLLOW PULSE is floating. It feels

Answer 5

w/o “subtance at it’s center” You can feel the edge but not the middle

Question 6

LEATHER PULSE is floating. it feels

Answer 6

wiry, rapid than a hollow pulse

Question 7

SOFT PULSE is floating. it feels

Answer 7

fine w/o strength, “like a piece of cotton floating on water”

Question 8

MINUTE PULSE is a floating pulse, it feels

Answer 8

smaller & softer than a soft pulse. It will disapear intermitingly under slight pressure.

Question 9

FLOODING PULSE means there is

Answer 9

Means there is ABUNDANT INTERNAL HEAT sometimes with Yin deficincey

Lots of internal head make arteries expand so pulse is strong and superficial (big pulse)

disease is deficient if the pulse is weak; its excess if the pulse is strong

Heat damages yin! so when yin qi is deficient internally the yang qi floats outwart to become flooding

Question 10

FLOATING STRONG PULSE is /means

Answer 10

strong & floating

MEANS that there is superficial excess

happens when bad qi attachks muscles and the wei qi resists

Question 11

FLOATING WEAK means

Answer 11

Superfical deficiency (caused by blood deficincey)

When blood is deficient & unable to support the qi the qi “jumps” to the exterior but it is still w/o strength

Question 12

EMPTY PULSE MEANS

Answer 12

Deficiency of Qi & Blood

It is slow weak but big

Not enough qi to move blood so it becomes slow, veins become big flabby, so it feels slow, weak and what little qi is left jumps to surface…..

Question 13

SCATTERED PULSE means

Answer 13

Yuan Qi (which is prenatatl nourished by post natal) is scattered….

means bothe QI & BLOOD is exhausted.

rememeber this is very weak and big

MEANS STOMACH QI, POSTNATAL ESSENCE IS EXHAUSTED so pulse has no root cant be felt at middle level

Question 14

HOLLOW PULSE means

Answer 14

Hollow Pulse is w/o “subtance at it’s center” You can feel the edge but not the middle

means SEVERE LOSS OF BLOOD (YIN DAMAGE) so there’s a superficial excess with internal deficiency

when the yin blood is deficient internally the pulse is “without substance in center” cause the yang qi has no where to adhere so it goes to the edges.

Question 15

LEATHERY means

Answer 15

damaged jing blood w cold (qi is defficient and not consolodated, so jing blood cant be stored so it scatters and floats)

weak, no substance in center, wiry

Question 16

SOFT PULSE means

Answer 16

its floating weak & thin

USALLY means various types of severe deficiency or trapped dampness; insouficiency of qi & blood

Question 17

MINUTE PULSE means

Answer 17

is floating only according to Li Shi Zhen!!!

disappears intermittingly with slight pressure

very thin

MEANS deficiency and failing of qi and blood (if its a chronic disease - the upright qi is about to be exhausted

NOTE

When YANG QI is failing pulse dissapears under slight pressure

When YIN QI is failing it dissapears under heavy pressure.