Formula Pulses Flashcards by Corry Meyers

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Tang

floating left cun and moderate
Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Tang

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floating left cun and moderate, right guan wiry

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Shao Yao Tang

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floating left cun, slippery right guan

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Da Huang Tang

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P: floating left cun and moderate
S: floating left cun and left chi wiry

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Fu Zi Tang

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Primary Pulse:
Left cun tight, right fails to lift the fingers
左寸緊，右不起指
Secondary pulse:
Both cun fail to lift the fingers, both chi deep tight
兩寸不起指，兩尺沈緊

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Fu Zi Tang

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Primary pulse:
Left cun floating but unable to lift fingers
左寸浮不起指
Secondary pulse:
Left cun and guan floating weak, chi wiry or wiry tight
左寸關浮弱兼尺弦或弦緊

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gui Zhi Jia Gui Tang 桂枝加桂湯

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Left cun floating hasty 左寸浮促

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Qu Shaoyao Tang 桂枝去芍藥湯

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Primary Pulse:
Left cun and chi not communicating 左寸尺不交
Secondary Pulses:
Left cun and chi not communicating, right guan big
Left cun superficial slippery, left chi deep/faint, right guan big
Left cun and guan superficial, left chi deep tight, right guan big

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Jiuni Tang 桂枝救逆湯

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Primary Pulse:
Left cun superficial slippery
左寸浮數
Secondary Pulse:
Left cun and chi not communicating
左寸尺不交

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Tang 桂枝甘草龍骨牡
蠣湯

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Left cun floating weak, right guan slippery or big

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Guizhi Jia Gegen Tang 桂枝加葛根湯

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Primary Pulse:
Left cun superficial weak, knotted
Secondary Pulse:
Left cun big

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Zhigancao Tang 炙甘草湯

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Primary Pulses:
Left cun floating tight (Cold Damage)
左寸浮緊(傷寒)
Secondary Pulses:
Left cun deep tight (Cold Dampness)
左寸沈緊(寒濕)
Left and right cun floating tight

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Mahuang Tang 麻黃湯

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Primary Pulse:
Left floating wiry, right guan slippery or wiry (eye pain or
dry nose)
左浮弦,右關獨滑(滑或弦:目痛鼻幹)
Secondary Pulse:
Left floating wiry, right guan slippery, or wiry, or big; right
cun tight

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Gegen Tang葛根湯

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Left cun floating, guan and chi thin wiry tight
左寸浮,關尺細弦緊
Left thin wiry tight
左細弦緊
Modification 加減:
Right guan slippery, add Shigao.
右關滑=加石膏

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Xiao Qinglong Tang 小青龍湯

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Primary pulse:
Left chi tight (failure of taiyang to transform water)
左尺緊(太陽水氣不化)
Secondary pulses:
Chi wiry and tight
尺弦緊
Deep moderate
沈緩
Both cun fail to rise, both chi deep and tight
兩寸不起,兩尺沈緊
Left cun fails to rise, guan and chi tight
左寸不起,關尺緊
Right cun tight, left chi wiry tight
右寸緊,左尺弦緊
Left cun tight, both chi deep and unsmooth
左寸緊,兩尺沈澀
Left cun flooding big rolling over the whole hand (water qi)
左寸洪大滿手溜(水氣)

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Wuling San 五苓散

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Primary pulse:
Left cun and guan fail to rise (when yang fails to rise, water
and damp are not being expelled) 左寸關不起(陽不起,
水濕不利)
Secondary pulses:
Both hands deep and wiry
兩手沉弦
Both cun fail to rise, both guan wiry
兩寸不起,兩關弦

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang 苓桂術甘湯

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Primary pulse:
Both chi deep thin slippery (blood stasis below)
兩手尺沉細滑
Secondary pulses:
Left cun thin slippery (blood stasis with jaundice)
左寸細滑
Left chi thin slippery (female blood stasis with lower abdominal pain)
左尺細滑
Both chi deep unsmooth (external trauma blood stasis)
兩手尺沉澀

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyang

Taohe Chengqi Tang 桃核承氣湯

Primary pulse:
Both hands flooding and big
兩手洪大
Secondary pulse:
Both guan thin and slippery
兩關細滑

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Baihu Tang 白虎湯

Primary pulse:
Big thin slippery, wiry slippery
大細滑,弦滑
Secondary pulses:
Left thin slippery
左細滑
Solely right guan deep, but when pressed thin and slippery
(food stagnation)
獨右關沈,推出細滑(宿食)

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Da Chengqi Tang 大承氣湯

Primary pulse:
Solely right guan thin slippery, others normal
獨右關細滑,餘如常
Secondary pulse:
Both hands slippery or wiry
兩手滑或弦

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Xiao Chengqi Tang 小承氣湯

Right guan slippery or deep thin slippery, unable to push
out left pulses
右關滑或沈細滑,左脈推不起

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Yangming

Maziren Wan 痲子仁丸

Left guan wiry, wiry tight, thin wiry
左關弦,弦緊,細弦

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang

Xiao Chaihu Tang 小柴胡湯

Below left guan wiry and slippery
左關下弦滑

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang

Huangqin Tang 黃芩湯

Primary pulse:
Solely left guan wiry, other positions fail to rise
獨左關弦,餘不起
Secondary pulses:
Both guan wiry, chi fails to rise (lower back pain)
兩關弦,尺不起(腰痛)
Left guan wiry, below guan dong
左關弦,關下動

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Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang

Sini San 四逆散

* Primary pulse: * Both guan wiry, or wiry big * 兩關弦,弦大 * Secondary pulse: * Both guan wiry, left pulses long * 兩關弦,左脈長

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming Da Chaihu Tang 大柴胡湯

* Left guan chi wiry * 左關尺弦 * Both guan wiry * 兩關弦

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming Banxia Xiexin Tang 半夏瀉心湯

* Both guan wiry * 兩關弦 * Left guan wiry, right cun tight * 左關弦右寸緊

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming Shengjiang Xiexin Tang 生薑瀉心湯

* Both guan wiry, with only left guan also stirring [dong] * 兩關弦,獨左關兼動

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming Gancao Xiexin Tang 甘草瀉心湯

* Primary pulses: * Both guan wiry with right guan wiry big * 兩關弦兼右關弦大 * Left guan thin wiry with right guan wiry big * 左關細弦兼右關弦大 * Secondary pulse: * Left guan wiry slippery * 左關弦滑

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyang-Yangming Chaihu Jia Longgu Muli Tang 柴胡龍骨牡蠣湯

* Right guan deep and wiry (weak spleen) * 右關沈弦(脾弱) * Both hands deep and thin * 兩手沈細

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin Lizhong Wan 理中丸

* Left cun floating moderate with right guan deep wiry or deep thin * 左寸浮緩兼右關沈弦或沈細 * Left cun floating weak, right guan dong or big * 左寸浮弱,右關動或大 * Dong above left guan, right guan dong or big * 左關上動,右關動或大

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin Guizhi Renshen Tang 桂枝人參湯

* Right guan wiry and slippery * 右關弦滑 * Both hands all pulses wiry * 兩手俱弦

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin Shaoyao Gancao Tang 芍藥甘草湯

* Primary Pulse: * Yang pulse (left cun) unsmooth, yin pulse (right guan) wiry * 左寸(太陽)澀右關(太陰)弦 * Secondary Pulse: * Left cun floating weak, right guan big

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Taiyin Xiao Jianzhong Tang 小建中湯

* Primary pulse: * Both hands severely thin and faint * 兩手細微甚 * Secondary pulses: * Unable to raise the pulse by pressing (sadness in the heart) * 推不起(心裏難過) * Slow (cold solid organs) * 遲(藏寒) * Big but forceless * 大而無力 * Deep and soggy (cold dampness) * 沈濡(寒濕)

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin Sini Tang 四逆湯

* Primary Pulse: * Deep thin tight, all six pulses fail to lift the fingers * 沈細緊,六脈不起指 * Secondary Pulses: * Both cun deep, both guan wiry, all weak or faint * Right cun tight, rolling up; left all weak or faint, or deep wiry tight

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin Zhenwu Tang 真武湯

* Primary Pulse: * Both hands tight deep thin * 兩手緊沈細 * Secondary Pulses: * Both hands deep weak, faint and thin * 兩手沈弱微細 * Left all deep faint, right cun tight * Left chi deep faint tight, right cun tight

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin Mahuang Xixin Fuzi Tang 麻黃細辛附子湯

* Deep thin rapid * 沈細數

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin Huanglian Ejiao Tang 黃連阿膠湯

* Deep thin slippery or soggy * 沈細滑或濡

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Shaoyin Zhuling Tang 豬苓湯

* Thin wiry, deep thin wiry * 細弦,沈細弦 * Deep thin with tendency towards expiring * 沈細欲絕

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Jueyin Danggui Sini Tang 當歸四逆湯

* Primary Pulse: * Left guan wiry, thin wiry or deep thin wiry * 左關弦,細弦或沈細弦 * Secondary Pulses: * Left guan wiry tight, right cun tight * Dong above left guan, right guan dong or big, right cun tight

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Jueyin Wuzhuyu Tang 吳茱萸湯

* Left guan big wiry hollow * ○ No action on the right side; all on the left ■ All on the middle it ramps up in the left guan; so much reversal that it is trying to come into the yang confirmation ■ Can think that it is HT/KD not communicating ● But no trouble sleeping ■ Big pulse; rounded ball in the left guan

Formula-Pulse Patterns: Jueyin Wumei Wan 烏梅圓

* Taiyang Disease: * left chi, or left cun * Yangming Disease: * right guan * Shaoyang Disease: * left guan * Taiyin Disease: * right guan, right cun * Shaoyin Disease: * left chi, left cun * Jueyin Disease: * left guan

Diagnostic Location Summary for Cold Damage

Formula Pulses Flashcards

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