PULSE Flashcards
Floating
Exterior pattern
Floating + Empty
Yin Deficiency
Deep
Interior pattern
Deep + Full
Qi and Blood Stagnation
Deep + Weak
Yang Deficiency
Slow
Cold pattern
Slow + Weak
Deficiency-Cold
Slow + Full
Excess-Cold
Rapid
Heat Pattern
Rapid + Full
Excess Heat
Rapid + Thin
Deficiency Heat
Empty
Qi / Blood Deficiency, Organ Deficiency
Full
Excess patern
Surging / Flooding
Exces heat has injured the Fluid / Yin
Surging / Flooding + Empty
Qi exhaustion after long period of illness
Thin / Thready
Blood / Yin Deficiency , Dampness with Qi deficiency
Slippery
Accumulation of Phlegm, Damp, or Food ; Excess Heat ; normal during pregnancy
Choppy + Full
Blood / Qi stasis
Choppy + Thin
Blood / Essence deficiency
Wiry
LV/GB disharmony ; pain ; phlegm or phlegm-fluid
Tight
Pain ; Food Retention
Soggy
Dampness ; essence deficiency
Weak
Qi / Yang Deficiency
Hasty
Excessive HT Yang, HT Fire ; Congested Qi in the Upper Jiao ; Accumulation of Phlegm or food
Hasty + Weak
HT Qi Deficiency
Knotted
Cold retention ; HT blood stasis, PC Phlegm ; HT Qi / Yang deficiency
Intermittent
Serious debilitaiton of all the internal organs ; Wind Pain pattern ; HT Problem (palpitation)
Long
Excess Heat pattern (surplus of Yang Qi)
Clearly felt with light pressure, somewhat weak with heavy pressure
Superficial
Not clear with light pressure, but clear with heavy pressure — felt near bone
Deep
Less than 4 beats per respiration cycle
Slow
More than five beats per respiration cycle
Rapid
Feels Big but Soft and without strength — “a balloon partially filled with water”
Empty
Feels forceful and rather Long ; pounding hard against the fingers at all three depths
Full
Arrives like hitting waves, hitting the fingers with strength at all three depths and overflowing, but it leaves the fingers with less strength, like a receding wave
Surging / Flooding
Fine like a thread, thinner than normal, but very distinct and clear
Thin / Thready
Feels extremely fluid, smooth, rounded, and as if it we oily — “pearls in a porcelain basin”
Slippery
Feels as if it has a jagged edge, uneven and rough, and sometimes irregular in strenghth and fullness — “knife scraping bamboo”
Choppy
Strong and taut, with no fluidity or wavelike qualities ; rebounds against pressure at all levels and hits the fingers evenly, like a guitar string
Wiry
Arrives tightly and with force and seems to bounce form side to side like a taut rope, vibrating and urgent ; full and elastic
Tight
Empty, Floating, extremely Soft and Thin, but less clear ; perceptible only at the superficial level — “a bubble floating on water”
Soggy
Soft, Fine, and without force ; felt only at the deep level
Weak
Rapid and skips beats irregularly
Hasty
Rapid and skips beats irregularly
Hasty
Slow and skips beats irregularly
Knotted
Regularly skips beats, usually skips more beats than Hasty or Knotted
Intermittent
Perceptible beyond the first and third positions, continues to be felt closer to the hand or up toward the elbow
Long
Right Hand Organ Correspondences
LU, SP, KD Yang (Ming Men, Triple Burner)
Left Hand Correspondences
HT, LV, Kidneys (KD Yin, UB)
