Pulses

Question 1

What 2 conditions have a full choppy hesitant rough pulse

Answer 1

qi stasis

blood stasis

Question 2

What 2 conditions have a thin, choppy, hesitant rough pulse?

Answer 2

blood xu

essence xu

Question 3

what does the word choppy mean about the pulse?

Answer 3

irregular in fullness, jagged edge

Question 4

surging, flooding, overflowing pulse

Answer 4

xs heat injuring fluids/yin

Question 5

what does an empty, surging, flooding, overflowing pulse indicate?

Answer 5

qi exhaustion after long illness

Question 6

What 3 conditions have a thin/fine/thready pulse

Answer 6

blood xu
yin xu
dampness w/qi xu

Question 7

tight

Answer 7

cold, usually xs

Question 8

floating

Answer 8

xterior cold

Question 9

deep

Answer 9

interior cold

Question 10

Where do you feel the soggy/soft/weak-floating pulse?

Answer 10

right under the skin

Question 11

What 2 conditions have a weak/frail pulse

Answer 11

qi xu

yang xu

Question 12

thin/weak frail

Answer 12

blood xu

Question 13

Is a hasty/abrupt/hurried/skipping pulse xs or xu?

Answer 13

xs pulse

Question 14

hasty/abrupt/hurried/skipping and weak

Answer 14

HT qi xu

Question 15

What does a knotted/bound pulse feel like?

Answer 15

slow and skips beats irregularly

Question 16

define an intermittent pulse

Answer 16

regularly irregular

= serious debilitation of all organs

Question 17

Name 3 conditions for an empty/xu/vacuous pulse

Answer 17

qi xu
blood xu
organ xu

Question 18

What does a rapid full/xs/forceful pulse indicate?

Answer 18

full pattern

rapid = xs heat

Question 19

where is a long pulse felt?

Answer 19

The long pulse is felt closer to the hand or up toward the elbow.

Question 20

Traditionally the normal pulse has?

a) ST qi, spirit, root
b) spirit and root
c) ST qi and spirit
d) ST qi, spirit, root and rhythm

Answer 20

a) ST qi, spirit, root

The ST qi is the source of qi and blood

Question 21

full/xs/forceful pulse

Answer 21

full pattern
rapid = xs heat
slow = xs cold

Question 22

What does a minute/faint pulse feel like? What does it indicate?

Answer 22

it’s fine, soft and barely perceptible and indicates extreme xu of qi and blood

Question 23

Pt has no appetite or just slt hunger, dry stools, dull burning, epigastric pain and mouth dryness esp in the afternoon. Pulse?

a) right middle floating empty
b) right middle floating empty rapid

Answer 23

a) right middle floating empty

dx = ST yin xu. No signs of empty heat yet which would add rapid

Question 24

Pt has dizziness, easy fatigue, dull pale complexion, poor appetite, blurred vision, pale nails, numbness in the limbs and scanty menses. Pulse?

a) choppy or fine
b) fine or wiry
c) empty or knotted

Answer 24

a) choppy or fine

Question 25

Pt has dizziness, tinnitus, depression, poor memory, dry mouth at night, night sweats, sore back, thirst, constipation, dark scanty urine. T= red w/o coat. Pulse?

a) empty
b) floating empty
c) empty rapid
d) floating empty rapid

Answer 25

d) floating empty rapid

dx = KD yin xu
yang is no longer rooted in the yin and floats up. Empty heat = rapid pulse

Question 26

Where does the soggy/soft/weak-floating pulse come from?

Answer 26

a) damp from xs or xu

b) essence xu

Question 27

Name 5 syndromes for hasty/abrupt/hurried/skipping pulse

Answer 27

a) xs HT yang
b) HT fire
c) congested qi in upper jiao
d) phlegm accumulation
e) food accumulation

Question 28

What does a slow full/xs/forceful pulse indicate?

Answer 28

full pattern

slow = xs cold

Question 29

What does a long pulse indicate?

Answer 29

It indicates xs heat when there is a surplus of yang qi

Question 30

name 3 intermittent pulse conditions

Answer 30

a) HT problems
b) wind patterns
c) pain patterns

Question 31

Name 4 syndromes for knotted/bound pulse

Answer 31

a) cold retention
b) HT blood stasis
c) PC phlegm
d) HT qi/yang xu