PULSE Flashcards

1
Q

Floating

A

Exterior pattern

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2
Q

Floating + Empty

A

Yin Deficiency

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3
Q

Deep

A

Interior pattern

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4
Q

Deep + Full

A

Qi and Blood Stagnation

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5
Q

Deep + Weak

A

Yang Deficiency

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6
Q

Slow

A

Cold pattern

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7
Q

Slow + Weak

A

Deficiency-Cold

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8
Q

Slow + Full

A

Excess-Cold

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9
Q

Rapid

A

Heat Pattern

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10
Q

Rapid + Full

A

Excess Heat

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11
Q

Rapid + Thin

A

Deficiency Heat

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12
Q

Empty

A

Qi / Blood Deficiency, Organ Deficiency

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13
Q

Full

A

Excess patern

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14
Q

Surging / Flooding

A

Exces heat has injured the Fluid / Yin

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15
Q

Surging / Flooding + Empty

A

Qi exhaustion after long period of illness

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16
Q

Thin / Thready

A

Blood / Yin Deficiency , Dampness with Qi deficiency

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17
Q

Slippery

A

Accumulation of Phlegm, Damp, or Food ; Excess Heat ; normal during pregnancy

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18
Q

Choppy + Full

A

Blood / Qi stasis

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19
Q

Choppy + Thin

A

Blood / Essence deficiency

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20
Q

Wiry

A

LV/GB disharmony ; pain ; phlegm or phlegm-fluid

21
Q

Tight

A

Pain ; Food Retention

22
Q

Soggy

A

Dampness ; essence deficiency

23
Q

Weak

A

Qi / Yang Deficiency

24
Q

Hasty

A

Excessive HT Yang, HT Fire ; Congested Qi in the Upper Jiao ; Accumulation of Phlegm or food

25
Q

Hasty + Weak

A

HT Qi Deficiency

26
Q

Knotted

A

Cold retention ; HT blood stasis, PC Phlegm ; HT Qi / Yang deficiency

27
Q

Intermittent

A

Serious debilitaiton of all the internal organs ; Wind Pain pattern ; HT Problem (palpitation)

28
Q

Long

A

Excess Heat pattern (surplus of Yang Qi)

29
Q

Clearly felt with light pressure, somewhat weak with heavy pressure

A

Superficial

30
Q

Not clear with light pressure, but clear with heavy pressure — felt near bone

A

Deep

31
Q

Less than 4 beats per respiration cycle

A

Slow

32
Q

More than five beats per respiration cycle

A

Rapid

33
Q

Feels Big but Soft and without strength — “a balloon partially filled with water”

A

Empty

34
Q

Feels forceful and rather Long ; pounding hard against the fingers at all three depths

A

Full

35
Q

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

A

Surging / Flooding

36
Q

Fine like a thread, thinner than normal, but very distinct and clear

A

Thin / Thready

37
Q

Feels extremely fluid, smooth, rounded, and as if it we oily — “pearls in a porcelain basin”

A

Slippery

38
Q

Feels as if it has a jagged edge, uneven and rough, and sometimes irregular in strenghth and fullness — “knife scraping bamboo”

A

Choppy

39
Q

Strong and taut, with no fluidity or wavelike qualities ; rebounds against pressure at all levels and hits the fingers evenly, like a guitar string

A

Wiry

40
Q

Arrives tightly and with force and seems to bounce form side to side like a taut rope, vibrating and urgent ; full and elastic

A

Tight

41
Q

Empty, Floating, extremely Soft and Thin, but less clear ; perceptible only at the superficial level — “a bubble floating on water”

A

Soggy

42
Q

Soft, Fine, and without force ; felt only at the deep level

A

Weak

43
Q

Rapid and skips beats irregularly

A

Hasty

44
Q

Rapid and skips beats irregularly

A

Hasty

45
Q

Slow and skips beats irregularly

A

Knotted

46
Q

Regularly skips beats, usually skips more beats than Hasty or Knotted

A

Intermittent

47
Q

Perceptible beyond the first and third positions, continues to be felt closer to the hand or up toward the elbow

A

Long

48
Q

Right Hand Organ Correspondences

A

LU, SP, KD Yang (Ming Men, Triple Burner)

49
Q

Left Hand Correspondences

A

HT, LV, Kidneys (KD Yin, UB)