Formula Pulses Flashcards
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gui Zhi Tang
floating left cun and moderate
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gui Zhi Tang
floating left cun and moderate, right guan wiry
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gui Zhi Jia Shao Yao Tang
floating left cun, slippery right guan
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gui Zhi Jia Da Huang Tang
P: floating left cun and moderate
S: floating left cun and left chi wiry
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gui Zhi Jia Fu Zi Tang
- Primary Pulse:
- Left cun tight, right fails to lift the fingers
- 左寸緊,右不起指
- Secondary pulse:
- Both cun fail to lift the fingers, both chi deep tight
- 兩寸不起指,兩尺沈緊
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gui Zhi Fu Zi Tang
- Primary pulse:
- Left cun floating but unable to lift fingers
- 左寸浮不起指
- Secondary pulse:
- Left cun and guan floating weak, chi wiry or wiry tight
- 左寸關浮弱兼尺弦或弦緊
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gui Zhi Jia Gui Tang 桂枝加桂湯
- Left cun floating hasty 左寸浮促
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Guizhi Qu Shaoyao Tang 桂枝去芍藥湯
- Primary Pulse:
- Left cun and chi not communicating 左寸尺不交
- Secondary Pulses:
- Left cun and chi not communicating, right guan big
- Left cun superficial slippery, left chi deep/faint, right guan big
- Left cun and guan superficial, left chi deep tight, right guan big
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Guizhi Jiuni Tang 桂枝救逆湯
- Primary Pulse:
- Left cun superficial slippery
- 左寸浮數
- Secondary Pulse:
- Left cun and chi not communicating
- 左寸尺不交
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Tang 桂枝甘草龍骨牡
蠣湯
- Left cun floating weak, right guan slippery or big
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Guizhi Jia Gegen Tang 桂枝加葛根湯
- Primary Pulse:
- Left cun superficial weak, knotted
- Secondary Pulse:
- Left cun big
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Zhigancao Tang 炙甘草湯
- Primary Pulses:
- Left cun floating tight (Cold Damage)
- 左寸浮緊(傷寒)
- Secondary Pulses:
- Left cun deep tight (Cold Dampness)
- 左寸沈緊(寒濕)
- Left and right cun floating tight
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Mahuang Tang 麻黃湯
- Primary Pulse:
- Left floating wiry, right guan slippery or wiry (eye pain or
dry nose) - 左浮弦,右關獨滑(滑或弦:目痛鼻幹)
- Secondary Pulse:
- Left floating wiry, right guan slippery, or wiry, or big; right
cun tight
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Gegen Tang葛根湯
- Left cun floating, guan and chi thin wiry tight
- 左寸浮,關尺細弦緊
- Left thin wiry tight
- 左細弦緊
- Modification 加減:
- Right guan slippery, add Shigao.
- 右關滑=加石膏
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Xiao Qinglong Tang 小青龍湯
- Primary pulse:
- Left chi tight (failure of taiyang to transform water)
- 左尺緊(太陽水氣不化)
- Secondary pulses:
- Chi wiry and tight
- 尺弦緊
- Deep moderate
- 沈緩
- Both cun fail to rise, both chi deep and tight
- 兩寸不起,兩尺沈緊
- Left cun fails to rise, guan and chi tight
- 左寸不起,關尺緊
- Right cun tight, left chi wiry tight
- 右寸緊,左尺弦緊
- Left cun tight, both chi deep and unsmooth
- 左寸緊,兩尺沈澀
- Left cun flooding big rolling over the whole hand (water qi)
- 左寸洪大滿手溜(水氣)
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Wuling San 五苓散
- Primary pulse:
- Left cun and guan fail to rise (when yang fails to rise, water
and damp are not being expelled) 左寸關不起(陽不起,
水濕不利) - Secondary pulses:
- Both hands deep and wiry
- 兩手沉弦
- Both cun fail to rise, both guan wiry
- 兩寸不起,兩關弦
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang
Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang 苓桂術甘湯