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You can feel it with a very light touch, if you push down harder it decreases

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Superficial/ floating

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Only felt if you push hard

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Deep

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Pulse beats 3x per minute

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Slow

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Pulse beats 5x per minute, regular rhythm

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Rapid/Quick

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Pulse size is wide and force less, slack. Forceless is all 3 positions.

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Deficient/weak

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Pulse felt in all 3 positions and levels
Long and large
Feeling of fullness

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Excess/Strong

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Pulse wide and forceful, but fades gently.
Vessel wide and thick
Like a wave

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Surging/flooding

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Thin pulse width
Feels like fine thread and very distinct and clear
No interruption of rhythm when pushing down on pulse.

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Thready/fine

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Pulse moves quickly, smoothly and is slippery inside vessel.
Vessel is plump
Like a pearl rolling

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Rolling/slippery

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Pulse is slow and wave shaped
Not smooth
Irregular rhythm irregular strength and fullness

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Hesitant/choppy

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Pulse is taut, Long and forceful, whether under pressure or not.
Maintains a straight line

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String-taut/wiry

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Pulse rises and falls with strength and vibrates.
Picture a tightly twisted rope.
Stretched and snapping

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Tense/tight

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Pulse is superficial
Thin
Hits fingers without strength

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Soft/soggy

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Pulse is deep and thin

Hits fingers without strength

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Weak/feeble

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15
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Pulse beats rapid and irregular

Fast

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Abrupt/short

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Pulse is slow and irregular

Missed beats but comes back immediately

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Knotted

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Pulse is slow and weak
Pauses at regular intervals
Will wait a beat before coming back

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Regularly intermittent

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18
Q

What is a cold with pain and food stagnation

Like a guitar string that is too tight

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Tense/tight

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19
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What is damp and deficient and hits fingers without strength and Superficial ?

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Soft/soggy

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20
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Excess pulse, excess heat, stagnation and deficient.
The irregular beats can be linked to anxiety attack.
Rapid and irregular

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Abrupt/short

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21
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What is slow and irregular missed beats but comes back immediately.
Excess yin
Stagnation , could be tumor mass.
Vital qi deficient

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Knotted

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22
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Not common and can happen when people are panicked.
Pulse is slow and weak pauses at regular intervals and will wait a beat to come back.
Excess can cause Emotional fear and fright

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Regularly intermittent

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23
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What causes an intermittent pulse?

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Deficiency of Zang Qi( 5 zang organs that store qi, xue(blood),Jinye(fluids)Jing(essence)Shen(spirit)
Excess wind,pain or fear

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24
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What causes a knotted pulse ?

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Excess yin(stagnation,cold)
Vital qi deficiency
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What causes an abrupt pulse?
Excess and stagnation Heat Zang fu deficiency
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What three pulses have stagnation and irregular beats
Abrupt Knotted Regularly intermittent
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What causes a soft pulse ?
Damp and deficiency
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What causes a weak pulse?
Deficiency of qi and blood | Vegan
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What causes a tense pulse?
Cold, pain and stagnation
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What deficient and damp pulse is thin and can be peri menopausal?
Thready.
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What stagnant pulse moves quickly inside the vessel and has damp and heat?
Rolling/slippery
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What excess pulse is slow and not smooth with irregular rhythm and strength and can threaten abortion?
Hesitant/choppy
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What excess pulse feels long and forceful and is linked to stress and emotions?
String/taut
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What causes a string/taut pulse ?
Liver /Gb disease | Excess
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What causes a hesitant pulse?
stagnation | Deficiency of essence
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What causes a rolling pulse ?
Food stagnation,damp and heat
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What causes a Thready pulse?
Deficiency and damp | Vegan/vegetarian
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What pulses are in the excess category
``` Excess Surging Rolling String taut Abrupt ```
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What causes a superficial pulse?
Deficiency
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What pulse is exterior and deficient ?
Superficial
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What causes a deep pulse ?
Interior syndrome
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What pulse is interior and deep?
Deep
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What causes a slow pulse ?
Cold and qi deficiency
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What deficient pulse is cold and beast 3xper breath
Slow
45
What causes a rapid pulse ?
Heat
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What pulse is fast, hot and can be linked to anxiety, beats 5xper breath?
Rapid
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What causes a deficient pulse?
Deficiency
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What pulse is deficient and forceless
Deficient
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What causes an excess pulse ?
Excess
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What excess pulse can be felt in all 3 positions and all 3 levels
Excess
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What causes a surging pulse?
Heat in the qi level
52
What is Yang Ming pulse ?
Surging (big pulse,big thirst big sweat)
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Why would a pulse be wide?
Excess heat moves qi and blood to expand vessels.
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Why would a pulse be narrow/thin?
Insufficient yin makes Yang float out, blood fails to fill vessels.
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Depth, why would a pulse be superficial?
Yang pushing qi outward due to insufficiency of yin able to control yang.
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Why would a pulse be deep?
Yang qi deficient to push outward.
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Why would a pulse be forceful?
Stagnation of qi and blood build up or qi has to be excess to fight off invasion of pathogens.
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Why would pulse be forceless?
Qi deficiency which fails to fill and move blood
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Why would the pulse have a faster rate
Yang qi hyperactivity.
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Why would pulse rate be slow?
Yang qi deficiency or obstruction of yang by pathogenic cold.
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Why would a pulse be long?
Excess qi makes blood flow and overfill vessels
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Why would a pulse be short?
Qi deficiency fail to activate blood flow.
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Why would pulse have an irregular rhythm?
Heart qi fails to keep blood moving.
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Why would a pulse be taught?
Qi stagnation constricts vessels
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Why would pulse be slack?
Qi deficiency fails to move blood and fill vessels
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What changes shape of pulse?
Severe qi deficiency causes blood or essence fail to fill vessels and cause shape change
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What is a complex pulse?
A combination or two or more pulses
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What is a simple pulse?
One pulse opposed to a complex pulse of two or more.

Pulse Diagnosis (2 decks)

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