w8.h1 - Lesson 5 & w11.h1 - Lesson 6: Complex Pulses Flashcards
Choose the 3 most accurate statements.
a) A pulse that is slack or loose indicates qi and blood deficiency
b) A pulse that is slack or loose indicates yin deficiency
c) A pulse that is taut or has tension indicates qi and blood stagnation
d) A pulse that is taut or has tension indicates blood vessel constriction
a) A pulse that is slack or loose indicates qi and blood deficiency
c) A pulse that is taut or has tension indicates qi and blood stagnation
d) A pulse that is taut or has tension indicates blood vessel constriction
Choose the 3 best statements to complete the sentence.
A wiry or string-taut pulse feels:
a) “Like a string on a musical istrument.”
b) Long, forceful and vibrating
c) Like a straight line
d) Taut, long and forceful
a) “Like a string on musical istrument.”
c) Like a straight line
d) Taut, long and forceful
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A wiry or string-taut pulse indicates:
a) Normal in Summer
b) Phlegm, Pain or Malaria
c) Qi and Blood deficiency
d) Liver/Gallbladder disease
b) Phlegm, Pain or Malaria
d) Liver/Gallbladder disease
Choose the best statement to complete the sentence.
A tight or tense pulse feels:
a) “Like a string on a musical istrument.”
b) Vibrating, rising and falling with strength
c) Rapid
d) Round, rolling
b) Vibrating, rising and falling with strength
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A tight or tense pulse indicates:
a) Pain or Heat Pattern
b) Pain or Cold Pattern
c) Food Stagnation
d) Phlegm Stagnation
b) Pain or Cold Pattern
c) Food Stagnation
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A leather pulse feels:
a) Deep, flat and forceful
b) Vibrating, rising and falling with strength
c) Superficial, forceful, taut, wide and hollow
d) Like a drumskin
c) Superficial, forceful, taut, wide and hollow
d) Like a drumskin
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A leather pulse indicates:
a) Excess Pattern
b) Deficiency Pattern
c) Qi and Blood Stagnation
d) Blood Loss
b) Deficiency Pattern
d) Blood Loss
Choose the 3 best statements to complete the sentence.
A rapid irregular or abrupt pulse feels:
a) Possibly forceful or forceless
b) Hasty
c) Hesitant
d) Fast with missed steps
a) Possibly forceful or forceless
b) Hasty
d) Fast with missed steps
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A rapid irregular or abrupt pulse indicates:
a) If also forceful, then excess heat or stagnation
b) If also forceful, then excess cold
c) If also forceless, then qi or blood deficiency
d) If also forceless, then yin and yang disharmony
a) If also forceful, then excess heat or stagnation
d) If also forceless, then yin and yang disharmony
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A slow irregular or knotted pulse indicates:
a) Heart qi deficiency
b) Liver blood deficiency
c) Heat or Yang Rising
d) Cold, Stagnation or Tumor
a) Heart qi deficiency
d) Cold, Stagnation or Tumor
Choose the best statements to complete the sentence.
A choppy or hesitant pulse feels:
a) Irregular in rate, strength and size
b) Uneven, unsmooth, changing rapidly
c) Rough, Sluggish
d) Forceful or Forceless
a) Irregular in rate, strength and size
b) Uneven, unsmooth, changing rapidly
c) Rough, Sluggish
d) Forceful or Forceless
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A choppy or hesitant pulse:
a) If also forceful, indicates qi and blood stagnation, food stagnation or phlegm retention
b) If also forceful, indicates excess heat or cold
c) If also forceless, indicates Spleen qi deficiency with dampness
d) If also forceless, indicates blood or essence deficiency, threatened abortion or seminal emission
a) If also forceful, indicates qi and blood stagnation, food stagnation or phlegm retention
d) If also forceless, indicates blood or essence deficiency, threatened abortion or seminal emission
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A flooding or surging pulse feels:
a) Gently rising with a burst of force
b) Wide, forceful and easily felt at the superficial level
c) Fades gently
d) Symmetrical when it rises and falls
b) Wide, forceful and easily felt at the superficial level
c) Fades gently
Choose the 2 best statements to complete the sentence.
A flooding or surging pulse indicates:
a) Excess Damp in the qi level
b) Excess Heat in the qi level
c) Acute infection
d) Possibly normal in the Spring
b) Excess Heat in the qi level
c) Acute infection
Choose the best answers.
Which 4 pulses are accurately paired with their descriptions?
a) Soggy/Soft - superficial, thin and forceless
b) Frail/Weak - superficial, very thin and forceless
c) Faint - vague with more pressure, very thin and forceless
d) Scattered - superficial, wide, slack, vague and forceless
e) Hollow - superficial, wide and soft, obscure center
a) Soggy/Soft - superficial, thin and forceless
c) Faint - vague with more pressure, very thin and forceless
d) Scattered - superficial, wide, slack, vague and forceless
e) Hollow - superficial, wide and soft, obscure center