PULSE

Question 1

Floating

Answer 1

Exterior pattern

Question 2

Floating + Empty

Answer 2

Yin Deficiency

Question 3

Deep

Answer 3

Interior pattern

Question 4

Deep + Full

Answer 4

Qi and Blood Stagnation

Question 5

Deep + Weak

Answer 5

Yang Deficiency

Question 6

Slow

Answer 6

Cold pattern

Question 7

Slow + Weak

Answer 7

Deficiency-Cold

Question 8

Slow + Full

Answer 8

Excess-Cold

Question 9

Rapid

Answer 9

Heat Pattern

Question 10

Rapid + Full

Answer 10

Excess Heat

Question 11

Rapid + Thin

Answer 11

Deficiency Heat

Question 12

Empty

Answer 12

Qi / Blood Deficiency, Organ Deficiency

Question 13

Full

Answer 13

Excess patern

Question 14

Surging / Flooding

Answer 14

Exces heat has injured the Fluid / Yin

Question 15

Surging / Flooding + Empty

Answer 15

Qi exhaustion after long period of illness

Question 16

Thin / Thready

Answer 16

Blood / Yin Deficiency , Dampness with Qi deficiency

Question 17

Slippery

Answer 17

Accumulation of Phlegm, Damp, or Food ; Excess Heat ; normal during pregnancy

Question 18

Choppy + Full

Answer 18

Blood / Qi stasis

Question 19

Choppy + Thin

Answer 19

Blood / Essence deficiency

Question 20

Wiry

Answer 20

LV/GB disharmony ; pain ; phlegm or phlegm-fluid

Question 21

Tight

Answer 21

Pain ; Food Retention

Question 22

Soggy

Answer 22

Dampness ; essence deficiency

Question 23

Weak

Answer 23

Qi / Yang Deficiency

Question 24

Hasty

Answer 24

Excessive HT Yang, HT Fire ; Congested Qi in the Upper Jiao ; Accumulation of Phlegm or food

Question 25

Hasty + Weak

Answer 25

HT Qi Deficiency

Question 26

Knotted

Answer 26

Cold retention ; HT blood stasis, PC Phlegm ; HT Qi / Yang deficiency

Question 27

Intermittent

Answer 27

Serious debilitaiton of all the internal organs ; Wind Pain pattern ; HT Problem (palpitation)

Question 28

Long

Answer 28

Excess Heat pattern (surplus of Yang Qi)

Question 29

Clearly felt with light pressure, somewhat weak with heavy pressure

Answer 29

Superficial

Question 30

Not clear with light pressure, but clear with heavy pressure — felt near bone

Answer 30

Deep

Question 31

Less than 4 beats per respiration cycle

Answer 31

Slow

Question 32

More than five beats per respiration cycle

Answer 32

Rapid

Question 33

Feels Big but Soft and without strength — “a balloon partially filled with water”

Answer 33

Empty

Question 34

Feels forceful and rather Long ; pounding hard against the fingers at all three depths

Answer 34

Full

Question 35

Arrives like hitting waves, hitting the fingers with strength at all three depths and overflowing, but it leaves the fingers with less strength, like a receding wave

Answer 35

Surging / Flooding

Question 36

Fine like a thread, thinner than normal, but very distinct and clear

Answer 36

Thin / Thready

Question 37

Feels extremely fluid, smooth, rounded, and as if it we oily — “pearls in a porcelain basin”

Answer 37

Slippery

Question 38

Feels as if it has a jagged edge, uneven and rough, and sometimes irregular in strenghth and fullness — “knife scraping bamboo”

Answer 38

Choppy

Question 39

Strong and taut, with no fluidity or wavelike qualities ; rebounds against pressure at all levels and hits the fingers evenly, like a guitar string

Answer 39

Wiry

Question 40

Arrives tightly and with force and seems to bounce form side to side like a taut rope, vibrating and urgent ; full and elastic

Answer 40

Tight

Question 41

Empty, Floating, extremely Soft and Thin, but less clear ; perceptible only at the superficial level — “a bubble floating on water”

Answer 41

Soggy

Question 42

Soft, Fine, and without force ; felt only at the deep level

Answer 42

Weak

Question 43

Rapid and skips beats irregularly

Answer 43

Hasty

Question 44

Rapid and skips beats irregularly

Answer 44

Hasty

Question 45

Slow and skips beats irregularly

Answer 45

Knotted

Question 46

Regularly skips beats, usually skips more beats than Hasty or Knotted

Answer 46

Intermittent

Question 47

Perceptible beyond the first and third positions, continues to be felt closer to the hand or up toward the elbow

Answer 47

Long

Question 48

Right Hand Organ Correspondences

Answer 48

LU, SP, KD Yang (Ming Men, Triple Burner)

Question 49

Left Hand Correspondences

Answer 49

HT, LV, Kidneys (KD Yin, UB)