Pulses

Question 1

The pulse reflects the condition of?

Answer 1

Zang, Fu, Qi, and Blood

Question 2

When should a practitioner take a patients pulse?

Answer 2

At the end of the consultation

Question 3

True or False: Patient should be opposite the practitioner when taken pulse?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Invasion of external pathogenic factors, triggers defensive yang to withhold them, which drives vascular qi to the surface, and characterized as present with light touch but becomes fainter with deeper pressure is what kind of pulse?

Answer 4

Floating Pulse

Question 5

Floating position, weak pulsation, floating and thready texture, indicates deficiency or damp syndromes, qi deficiency, haemorrhage, emission, diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, and palpitation due to fright is what kind of pulse?

Answer 5

Soft Pulse

Question 6

Palpable on the surface, felt with light touch, sense of emptiness on light pressure, indicates significant blood loss conditions, or yin deficiency when accompanied with exhaustion of body fluid due to profuse sweats and high fever is what kind of pulse?

Answer 6

Hollow Pulse

Question 7

Feels like a drum skin, is large, hollow and taut with forcefulness, seen in loss of blood & body fluids and
represents yang qi floating due to yin & blood xu and is considered as what kind of pulse?

Answer 7

Taut Pulse

Question 8

Hardly felt by light touch, requires moderate pressure to find it, only becomes distinct with deep pressure, and indicates interior syndrome is what kind of pulse?

Answer 8

Deep Pulse

Question 9

Deep, taut, long, large, forceful, only felt with deep pressure, and indicates an accumulation of yin cold and subsidence of yang qi is what kind of pulse?

Answer 9

Firm Pulse

Question 10

Only distinct at middle position, doesn’t extend to cun or chi, seen in yang xu, qi xu, haemorrhage, accumulation of phlegm, or obstruction and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 10

Short Pulse

Question 11

Large & prolonged stroke, long & straight is what kind of pulse?

Answer 11

Long Pulse

Question 12

Quicker than 4 beats per breath, indicates heat syndrome, excess hear or deficiency type heat, and can be febrile disease, stomach and intestines heat, heart fire, yin xu, blood xu, yang and qi xu and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 12

Rapid Pulse

Question 13

Significantly slower than 4 beats per breath, maintains regular rhythm, indicates cold syndrome, excess yin in interior body, deficiency of yang qi and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 13

Slow Pulse

Question 14

Will show prescience of excessive yang, may show deficiency of the viscera and is seen in pathological changes of cardiac muscle and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 14

Abrupt/Running Pulse

Question 15

Slow with irregular intervals, seen with stagnant qi due to excess yin, blood stasis with cold phlegm, food stagnation, excess pathogenic factors, weakens ZF and creates qi and blood deficiency, and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 15

Knotted Pulse

Question 16

Defined as a pulse that pauses at REGULAR intervals, indicates weakness of viscera and syndromes of pain, fright & trauma and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 16

Intermittent Pulse

Question 17

Pulse with large volume felt like surging waves, coming vigorously and flowing gently and
indicates yang heat is what kind of pulse?

Answer 17

Full Pulse

Question 18

Thin but distinctive on pressure, deficiency of yin fluid (prolonged illness, blood loss, vomiting & diarrhoea) and damp syndrome & disturbance of spleen due to pathogenic damp and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 18

Thready Pulse

Question 19

Comes and goes smoothly, you feel like you have just got your finger on it and it will go again, indicate retention of phlegm and food, felt in cases of abdominal distension & constipation due to retention of undigested food in the stomach and intestines and also cough, dyspnea, and vomiting due to retention of phlegm is what kind of pulse?

Answer 19

Slippery Pulse

Question 20

Comes & goes unsmoothly without a flow, giving feeling of unevenness is what kind of pulse?

Answer 20

Hesitant/Uneven Pulse

Question 21

Feels forceful, straight and long, flaming up of liver fire, Liver Qi Stag, rising liver yang, damp heat in liver & gall bladder and also indicates phlegm retention pleura, excessive fluid in hypochondrium is what kind of pulse?

Answer 21

Wiry Pulse

Question 22

Feels like a stretched rope, indicates exterior cold syndrome with chills, fever, and seen with acute pain, especially in abdomen, joints, cardiac pain & syndrome of undigested food retention and is what kind of pulse?

Answer 22

Tense Pulse

Question 23

Felt on all 3 positions, present with both light and heavy pressure and feels long and large with sensation of fullness, indicative of excess syndrome is what pulse?

Answer 23

Replete Pulse

Question 24

Can only be felt with heavy pressure feels soft, there is no strength on palpation, feels thready - tiny shaped and overall feeling of emptiness and indicative if deficiency syndrome is what kind of pulse?

Answer 24

Weak Pulse

Question 25

Extremely thready, feeble, barely palpable, extreme decline of vital qi, exhaustion of qi and blood, no blood to fill the vessels and no qi to drive the vascular qi around is what kind of pulse?

Answer 25

Indistinctive Pulse

Question 26

Rootless (felt on light touch but disappears with heavy pressing) and Uncountable (uneven rhythm with no distinct wave or beat),e xhaustion of Qi syndrome, failure of ZF seen in critical syndrome and blood deficiency syndrome is what kind of pulse?

Answer 26

Scattered Pulse