SHL - TY, SY, JY

Question 1

Ren Shen Tang/Li Zhong Wan 1

Answer 1

Right guan deep and wiry (weak spleen).

This is a spleen that is weak and wet. The wiry is from rheum/dampness rather than wood overacting on earth.Right guan deep and wiry (weak spleen).

This is a spleen that is weak and wet. The wiry is from rheum/dampness rather than wood overacting on earth.

Question 2

Ren Shen Tang/Li Zhong Wan 2

Answer 2

Both hands deep thin.

Deep and thin applies to all Yin conformation pulses - in Shao Yin want more faintness, and in Jue Yin want more wiriness or expiring. In the absence of faint, wiry or expiring could also be deep thin soggy.Both hands deep thin.

Deep and thin applies to all Yin conformation pulses - in Shao Yin want more faintness, and in Jue Yin want more wiriness or expiring. In the absence of faint, wiry or expiring could also be deep thin soggy.

Question 3

Gui Zhi Ren Shen Tang

Answer 3

Left cun floating moderate with right guan deep wiry or deep thin.

LZW pulse on the right hand and GZ pulse on the left. Lots of upward surging of yang so can see some slipperiness on the left cun – floating weak and slippery. Left cun floating moderate with right guan deep wiry or deep thin.

LZW pulse on the right hand and GZ pulse on the left. Lots of upward surging of yang so can see some slipperiness on the left cun – floating weak and slippery.

Question 4

Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang 1

Answer 4

Right guan wiry and slippery.

Wood overacting on earth. Right guan wiry is Bai Shao pulse. Slippery is from heat in the stomach from the wind of the wood. Right guan wiry and slippery.

Wood overacting on earth. Right guan wiry is Bai Shao pulse. Slippery is from heat in the stomach from the wind of the wood.

Question 5

Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang 2

Answer 5

Both hands all pulses wiry.

Question 6

Xiao Jian Zhong Tang

Answer 6

Yang pulse (left cun) unsmooth, yin pulse (right guan) wiry.

Commonly this is right guan wiry, left pulses generally weak. This is already a taxation pulse. The left pulses drop and the right pulses lift (and have a wiry edge). Can also have a left cun floating and weak indicating Gui Zhi.

HQJZT would be bigger on the right, which would mean smaller on the left. DGJZT would have a deep wiry Dang Gui pulse on the left guan with big wiry right guan.Yang pulse (left cun) unsmooth, yin pulse (right guan) wiry.

Commonly this is right guan wiry, left pulses generally weak. This is already a taxation pulse. The left pulses drop and the right pulses lift (and have a wiry edge). Can also have a left cun floating and weak indicating Gui Zhi.

HQJZT would be bigger on the right, which would mean smaller on the left. DGJZT would have a deep wiry Dang Gui pulse on the left guan with big wiry right guan.

Question 7

Huang Qi Jian Zhong Tang

Answer 7

XJZT but bigger on the right, which would mean smaller on the left.

Question 8

Dang Gui Jian Zhong Tang

Answer 8

Deep wiry Dang Gui pulse on the left guan with big wiry right guan.

Question 9

Si Ni Tang 1

Answer 9

Both hands severely thin and faint.

Question 10

Si Ni Tang 2

Answer 10

Unable to raise the pulse by pressing (sadness in the heart).

Question 11

Si Ni Tang 3

Answer 11

Slow (cold solid organs).

Slow is a Fu Zi indication, but it’s good to do a GZ/FZ combined formula. The GZ strengthens the heart yang directly which regulates the speed of the pulse.Slow (cold solid organs).

Slow is a Fu Zi indication, but it’s good to do a GZ/FZ combined formula. The GZ strengthens the heart yang directly which regulates the speed of the pulse.

Question 12

Si Ni Tang 4

Answer 12

Big but forceless.

Would be difficult to identify this as SNT. Might get this with severe down pour diarrhea.Big but forceless.

Would be difficult to identify this as SNT. Might get this with severe down pour diarrhea.

Question 13

Si Ni Tang 5

Answer 13

Deep and soggy (cold dampness).

Also get in MHT. MHT is cold damp of an excess nature. SNT is cold damp of a deficiency nature. Deep and soggy (cold dampness).

Also get in MHT. MHT is cold damp of an excess nature. SNT is cold damp of a deficiency nature.

Question 14

Zhen Wu Tang 1

Answer 14

Deep thin tight, all 6 pulses fail to lift the fingers.

Deep thin tight must at least be on the left chi, but can be all positions.Deep thin tight, all 6 pulses fail to lift the fingers.

Deep thin tight must at least be on the left chi, but can be all positions.

Question 15

Zhen Wu Tang 2

Answer 15

All deep thin faint, wiry tight on left chi or on both chi (starts with left chi then moves to both chi).

More common.All deep thin faint, wiry tight on left chi or on both chi (starts with left chi then moves to both chi).

More common.

Question 16

Ma Huang Xi Xin Fu Zi Tang 1

Answer 16

Both hands tight deep thin.

Same pulse as ZWT, differentiate by sx. MHXXFZT has respiratory sx.

Standard MHXXFZT is deep pulses with fever and no sweating.
In a MHXXFZT there is likely to be more tightness on the right cun and on the left chi (but not always). Right cun tightness for the MH lung closure and left chi tightness for lack of yang in the kidneys.
Both hands tight deep thin.

Same pulse as ZWT, differentiate by sx. MHXXFZT has respiratory sx.

Standard MHXXFZT is deep pulses with fever and no sweating.
In a MHXXFZT there is likely to be more tightness on the right cun and on the left chi (but not always). Right cun tightness for the MH lung closure and left chi tightness for lack of yang in the kidneys.

Question 17

Ma Huang Xi Xin Fu Zi Tang 2

Answer 17

Both hands deep weak and mildly thin.

Means deep weak faint and thin.

Question 18

Huang Lian E Jiao Tang

Answer 18

Deep thin rapid.

Can also have slippery right guan - HL pulse.

Question 19

Zhu Ling Tang

Answer 19

Deep thin slippery or soggy.

Deep thin soggy is emphasis is on dampness. Deep thin slippery is emphasis is on heat. Most of the slipperiness should be felt on the left chi because it’s in the lower burner.

Question 20

Dang Gui Si Ni Tang 1

Answer 20

Thin wiry, deep thin wiry.

Cold blood deficiency stasis. All pulses will be deep thin, but the wiriness should just be the left guan. This is a very weak wiry, it is not strong.

Question 21

Dang Gui Si Ni Tang 2

Answer 21

Deep thin with tendency towards expiring.

Particularly left guan. All pulses will be deep.

Question 22

Dang Gui Si Ni Jia Wu Zhu Yu Sheng Jiang Tang

Answer 22

Left guan deep thin wiry tight.

The expiring quality is masked by the tightness. The high dose of ginger should also produce a right cun tight.

Question 23

Wu Zhu Yu Tang

Answer 23

Left guan wiry, thin wiry or deep thin wiry.

Should also have some tightness. Bottom depth but less deep than DGSNJWZYSJT pulses.

Can be mistaken for a Chai Hu pulse. The wrong fx will make sx worse.

Right guan can also be wiry because of wind blowing on earth. Right guan can even become slippery because of the wind.

Question 24

Wu Mei Wan

Answer 24

Left guan big wiry often empty on the inside, sometimes left guan wiry tight.