CALE Pulse Dx Flashcards
1
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SUPERFICIAL/ FLOATING
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- DESCRIPTION: Clearly felt w/ light pressure, somewhat weak w/ heavier pressure
- INDICATION: External Wind Invasion; Yin Xu
Yang w/i Yang Pulse
2
Q
DEEP
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- DESCRIPTION: Felt clearly with heavier pressure, near the bone
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INDICATION: PF in the Interior (Deep-Full);
Yang Xu (Deep-Weak)
Yin w/i Yin
3
Q
SLOW
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- DESC: Less than four beats per respiration cycle of the practitioner - Children: ~80-90 BPM | Teenager - Middle Aged: ~76-80 BPM | Middle Aged - 50: ~72-76 BPM | 50+: 68 BPM
- INDICATION: Cold pattern; Deficiency-Cold if Weak/ Excess-Cold if Full
Yin w/i Yin
4
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RAPID
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- D: More than 5 beats per respiration cycle of practitioner
- I: Heat pattern; Rapid-Full = Excess Heat; Rapid-Thin = Deficiency Heat
Yang w/i Yang
5
Q
EMPTY/ DEFICIENT
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- D: Feels Big, but is Soft and without strength; “A balloon partially filled with water”
- I: Qi/ Blood/ Organ Xu
Yin w/i Yin
6
Q
FULL/ EXCESS
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- D: Forceful and long; pounding hard against fingers at all three depths
- I: Full Pattern
Yang w/i Yang
7
Q
SURGING/ OVERFLOWING/ FLOODING
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- D: Arrives like waves, hitting fingers w/ strength at all 3 depths; leaves the fingers with less strength; debilitated; like a receding wave
- I: Surging-Full = Excess Heat with Injured Fluids/ Yin | Surging-Empty = Qi Exhaustion following a long period of illness
Yin w/i Yang
8
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FINE/ THIN/ THREADY
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- D: Fine like a thread, thinner than normal, but very distinct and clear
- I: Blood and Yin Xu; Dampness w/ [severe] Qi Xu
Yin w/i Yin
9
Q
SLIPPERY/ ROLLING
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- D: Feels fluid, smooth, rounded, “oily,” like a ball bearing covered with viscous fluid
- I: Accumulation of Phlegm, Damp, or Food | Excess Heat | Normal pulse during pregnancy
Yang w/i Yin –> think of pregnancy the baby (Yang) is w/i Mom (Yin)
10
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CHOPPY/ HESITANT
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- D: Feels like it has a jagged edge, uneven, rough, irregular in strength and fullness | “Like a knife scraping bamboo”
- I: Choppy-Full = Blood/ Qi Stasis | Choppy-Thin = Blood/Essence Xu | Exhaustion of Body Fluids
Yin w/i Yin
11
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WIRY/ STRING-TAUT
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- D: Strong and taut, no fluidity, not wavelike; rebounds against pressure at all levels like a guitar string
- I: LV/ GB Disharmony (Shi or Xu) | Pain | Phlegm (esp. if also slippery)
Yang w/i Yang
12
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TIGHT/ TENSE
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- D: Arrives tightly and with force and seems to bounce from side to side like a taut rope, vibrating and urgent; fuller more elastic than wiry
- I: Cold pattern [usu. excess]; Tight-Floating = Exterior Cold | TIght-Full-Deep = Interior Full-Cold | Tight-Weak-Deep = Interior Empty-Cold | Pain
Yang w/i Yin
13
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SOGGY/ SOFT
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- D: Empty, Floating, extremely soft and Thin, but less clear than Thin; like “A bubble floating on water”; slight pressure will make it disapper
- I: Dampness w/ Qi Xu | Yin Xu | Essence Xu
Yin w/i Yin
14
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WEAK
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- D: Soft, Fine, without force; Felt only @ deep level; cannot be felt @ superficial level
- I: Qi/Yang Xu | Blood Xu
Yin w/i Yin
15
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HASTY/ ABRUPT/ HURRIED/ SKIPPING
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- D: Rapid and skips beats irregularly Rapid Irregularly Irregular
- I: Excess HT Yang, HT Fire | HT Qi Xu | Congested Qi in the UJ | Phlegm or Food Accumulation
Yang w/i Yang
