Formula Pulses Flashcards

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Tang

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floating left cun and moderate
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Tang

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floating left cun and moderate, right guan wiry

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Shao Yao Tang

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floating left cun, slippery right guan

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Da Huang Tang

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P: floating left cun and moderate
S: floating left cun and left chi wiry

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Fu Zi Tang

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  • 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
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Fu Zi Tang

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  • 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
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Gui Tang 桂枝加桂湯

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  • Left cun floating hasty 左寸浮促
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Qu Shaoyao Tang 桂枝去芍藥湯

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  • 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
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Jiuni Tang 桂枝救逆湯

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  • Primary Pulse:
  • Left cun superficial slippery
  • 左寸浮數
  • Secondary Pulse:
  • Left cun and chi not communicating
  • 左寸尺不交
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Tang 桂枝甘草龍骨牡
蠣湯

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  • Left cun floating weak, right guan slippery or big
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Jia Gegen Tang 桂枝加葛根湯

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11
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  • Primary Pulse:
  • Left cun superficial weak, knotted
  • Secondary Pulse:
  • Left cun big
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Zhigancao Tang 炙甘草湯

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12
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  • 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
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Mahuang Tang 麻黃湯

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13
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  • 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
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gegen Tang葛根湯

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14
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  • 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
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Xiao Qinglong Tang 小青龍湯

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15
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  • 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)
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Wuling San 五苓散

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  • 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
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang 苓桂術甘湯

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17
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  • Primary pulse:
  • Both chi deep thin slippery (blood stasis below)
  • 兩手尺沉細滑
  • Secondary pulses:
  • Left cun thin slippery (blood stasis with jaundice)
  • 左寸細滑
  • Left chi thin slippery (female blood stasis with lower abdominal pain)
  • 左尺細滑
  • Both chi deep unsmooth (external trauma blood stasis)
  • 兩手尺沉澀
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Taohe Chengqi Tang 桃核承氣湯

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Q
  • Primary pulse:
  • Both hands flooding and big
  • 兩手洪大
  • Secondary pulse:
  • Both guan thin and slippery
  • 兩關細滑
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Baihu Tang 白虎湯

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Q
  • Primary pulse:
  • Big thin slippery, wiry slippery
  • 大細滑,弦滑
  • Secondary pulses:
  • Left thin slippery
  • 左細滑
  • Solely right guan deep, but when pressed thin and slippery
    (food stagnation)
  • 獨右關沈,推出細滑(宿食)
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Da Chengqi Tang 大承氣湯

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Q
  • Primary pulse:
  • Solely right guan thin slippery, others normal
  • 獨右關細滑,餘如常
  • Secondary pulse:
  • Both hands slippery or wiry
  • 兩手滑或弦
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Xiao Chengqi Tang 小承氣湯

21
Q
  • Right guan slippery or deep thin slippery, unable to push
    out left pulses
  • 右關滑或沈細滑,左脈推不起
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Maziren Wan 痲子仁丸

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Q
  • Left guan wiry, wiry tight, thin wiry
  • 左關弦,弦緊,細弦
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang

Xiao Chaihu Tang 小柴胡湯

23
Q
  • Below left guan wiry and slippery
  • 左關下弦滑
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang

Huangqin Tang 黃芩湯

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Q
  • Primary pulse:
  • Solely left guan wiry, other positions fail to rise
  • 獨左關弦,餘不起
  • Secondary pulses:
  • Both guan wiry, chi fails to rise (lower back pain)
  • 兩關弦,尺不起(腰痛)
  • Left guan wiry, below guan dong
  • 左關弦,關下動
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang

Sini San 四逆散

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Q
  • Primary pulse:
  • Both guan wiry, or wiry big
  • 兩關弦,弦大
  • Secondary pulse:
  • Both guan wiry, left pulses long
  • 兩關弦,左脈長
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming

Da Chaihu Tang 大柴胡湯

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Q
  • Left guan chi wiry
  • 左關尺弦
  • Both guan wiry
  • 兩關弦
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming

Banxia Xiexin Tang 半夏瀉心湯

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Q
  • Both guan wiry
  • 兩關弦
  • Left guan wiry, right cun tight
  • 左關弦右寸緊
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming

Shengjiang Xiexin Tang 生薑瀉心湯

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Q
  • Both guan wiry, with only left guan also stirring [dong]
  • 兩關弦,獨左關兼動
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming

Gancao Xiexin Tang 甘草瀉心湯

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  • Primary pulses:
  • Both guan wiry with right guan wiry big
  • 兩關弦兼右關弦大
  • Left guan thin wiry with right guan wiry big
  • 左關細弦兼右關弦大
  • Secondary pulse:
  • Left guan wiry slippery
  • 左關弦滑
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming

Chaihu Jia Longgu Muli Tang 柴胡龍骨牡蠣湯

30
Q
  • Right guan deep and wiry (weak spleen)
  • 右關沈弦(脾弱)
  • Both hands deep and thin
  • 兩手沈細
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin

Lizhong Wan 理中丸

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Q
  • Left cun floating moderate with right guan deep wiry or
    deep thin
  • 左寸浮緩兼右關沈弦或沈細
  • Left cun floating weak, right guan dong or big
  • 左寸浮弱,右關動或大
  • Dong above left guan, right guan dong or big
  • 左關上動,右關動或大
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin

Guizhi Renshen Tang 桂枝人參湯

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Q
  • Right guan wiry and slippery
  • 右關弦滑
  • Both hands all pulses wiry
  • 兩手俱弦
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin

Shaoyao Gancao Tang 芍藥甘草湯

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Q
  • Primary Pulse:
  • Yang pulse (left cun) unsmooth, yin pulse (right guan) wiry
  • 左寸(太陽)澀右關(太陰)弦
  • Secondary Pulse:
  • Left cun floating weak, right guan big
A

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin

Xiao Jianzhong Tang 小建中湯

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Q
  • Primary pulse:
  • Both hands severely thin and faint
  • 兩手細微甚
  • Secondary pulses:
  • Unable to raise the pulse by pressing (sadness in the heart)
  • 推不起(心裏難過)
  • Slow (cold solid organs)
  • 遲(藏寒)
  • Big but forceless
  • 大而無力
  • Deep and soggy (cold dampness)
  • 沈濡(寒濕)
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin

Sini Tang 四逆湯

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Q
  • Primary Pulse:
  • Deep thin tight, all six pulses fail to lift the fingers
  • 沈細緊,六脈不起指
  • Secondary Pulses:
  • Both cun deep, both guan wiry, all weak or faint
  • Right cun tight, rolling up; left all weak or faint, or deep
    wiry tight
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin

Zhenwu Tang 真武湯

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Q
  • Primary Pulse:
  • Both hands tight deep thin
  • 兩手緊沈細
  • Secondary Pulses:
  • Both hands deep weak, faint and thin
  • 兩手沈弱微細
  • Left all deep faint, right cun tight
  • Left chi deep faint tight, right cun tight
A

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin

Mahuang Xixin Fuzi Tang 麻黃細辛附子湯

37
Q
  • Deep thin rapid
  • 沈細數
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin

Huanglian Ejiao Tang 黃連阿膠湯

38
Q
  • Deep thin slippery or soggy
  • 沈細滑或濡
A

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin

Zhuling Tang 豬苓湯

39
Q
  • Thin wiry, deep thin wiry
  • 細弦,沈細弦
  • Deep thin with tendency towards expiring
  • 沈細欲絕
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Jueyin

Danggui Sini Tang 當歸四逆湯

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Q
  • Primary Pulse:
  • Left guan wiry, thin wiry or deep thin wiry
  • 左關弦,細弦或沈細弦
  • Secondary Pulses:
  • Left guan wiry tight, right cun tight
  • Dong above left guan, right guan dong or big, right cun
    tight
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Jueyin

Wuzhuyu Tang 吳茱萸湯

41
Q
  • Left guan big wiry hollow
  • ○ No action on the right side; all on the left
    ■ All on the middle it ramps up in the left guan; so much reversal that it is trying to come into the yang confirmation
    ■ Can think that it is HT/KD not communicating
    ● But no trouble sleeping
    ■ Big pulse; rounded ball in the left guan
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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Jueyin

Wumei Wan 烏梅圓

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Q
  • Taiyang Disease:
    * left chi, or left cun
  • Yangming Disease:
    * right guan
  • Shaoyang Disease:
    * left guan
  • Taiyin Disease:
    * right guan, right cun
  • Shaoyin Disease:
    * left chi, left cun
  • Jueyin Disease:
    * left guan
A

Diagnostic Location Summary
for Cold Damage