Pulse Image

Question 1

Felt with a light pressure of the fingers, just resting the fingers on the artery

Answer 1

Floating or Superficial

Question 2

Opposite to a “floating”, it can only be felt with a heavy pressure of the fingers and is felt near the bone

Answer 2

Deep or Sinking

Question 3

Three to Four Beats per respiration cycle of the practitioner

Answer 3

Slow

Question 4

One that has more than five beats per respiration of the practitioner

Answer 4

Rapid

Question 5

Feel rather big, but soft, like a ballon filled with water

Answer 5

Empty or Deficient, Vacuous

Question 6

Big and Strong, pounding hard against the fingers at all 3 depths

Answer 6

Full

Question 7

Surges with the Strength of a big pulse, hitting the fingers at all Three Depths , bit it leaves the fingers with less strength, like a receding

Answer 7

Surging or Flooding

Question 8

Fine thread, but it is very distinct and clear

Answer 8

Thin or Fine and Thready

Question 9

Extremely fluid, it felt smooth, like a ball bearing covered with viscous fluid

Answer 9

Slippery or Rolling

Question 10

Opposite of Slippery, uneven, rough, and sometimes irregular in strength and fullness

Answer 10

Choppy (Hesitant, Rough)

Question 11

Taut feeling, like a guitar or a violin string

Answer 11

Wiry (String-taught)

Question 12

Strong, rebounds, against pressure at all levels, and hits the fingers evenly, no fluidity or wavelike qualities

Answer 12

Wiry (String-Taught

Question 13

Strong and seems to bounce from side to side like a taut rope. Vibrating and urgent, it seems faster than actually is

Fuller and more elastic than the Wiry Pulse

Answer 13

Tight (Tense)

Question 14

Fuller and more stronger than the Wiry Pulse.

Answer 14

Tight (Tense)

Question 15

Thin and Empty and Floating, is less clear than a thin pulse, and is perceptible only in the Superficial

Answer 15

Soggy (Soft)

Question 16

Like a bubble floating on water

Answer 16

Soggy (Soft)

Question 17

Feels like pearls in a porcelain basin, slithers like a snake

Answer 17

Slippery (Rolling)

Question 18

A knife scraping bamboo or a sick silkworm eating a mulberry leaf

Answer 18

Choopy (Hesitant, Rough)

Question 19

Feels rough under the finger, instead of a smooth pulse wave, has jagged edge to it

Answer 19

Choppy (Hesitant, Rough)

Question 20

Feels taught like a guitar strong,

Answer 20

Wiry (string-taut)

Question 21

Thinner, more taught and harder than the tight pulse, really hits the fingers

Answer 21

Wiry (string-taut)

Question 22

Disappears when a stronger pressure is applied to feel the deep level

Answer 22

Soggy (Soft)

Question 23

Soft and Weak and Thin. Felt at the Deep level, like an inverted empty pulse.

Answer 23

Weak (frail)

Question 24

Cannot be felt on the superficial level, only deep level

Answer 24

Weak (frail)

Question 25

Rapid and it stops at irregular intervals

Answer 25

Hasty (Abrupt, Hurried)

Question 26

Slow and it stops at irregular intervals

Answer 26

Knotted (Bound)

Question 27

Stops at regular Intervals

Answer 27

Intermittent

Question 28

Basically longer than normal, extends slight beyond the normal pulse position

Answer 28

Long

Question 29

Opposite of a Long Pulse, occupies a shorter space than the normal position

Answer 29

Short

Question 30

Extremely Fine and Soft, but like the clarity of the Thin Pulse, Barely perceptible and seems about to dissapear

Answer 30

Minute (faint)

Question 31

Four beats for each respiration cycle

Answer 31

Moderate (Slow-Down)

Question 32

Felt at the Superficial level, but if one presses slightly harder to find the middle level it is not there. It is then felt again at the deeper level with a stronger pressure, empty in middle.

Answer 32

Hollow (Scallion)

Question 33

Floating and Large, with a empty center -Like a scallion stalk

Answer 33

Hollow (Scallion)

Question 34

Feels hard and tight at the superficial level and stretched like a drum, but it feels complexly empty at the deep level. Large Pulse, not thin

Answer 34

Leather (DrumSkin)

Question 35

Felt only at the Deep Level and it feels hard and rather wiry. Can be described as wiry pulse at the deep level.

Answer 35

Confined (Prison, Firm)

Question 36

Feels very small is relatively superficial, Instead of feeling like a wave, the pulse feels as if were broken in small dots

Answer 36

Scattered

Question 37

Floating, scattered without root, disappearing with pressing

Answer 37

Scattered

Question 38

Feels as if it were hidden beneath the bone, Very deep and difficult to feel, basically and extreme case of Deep Pulse

Answer 38

Hidden

Question 39

Extreme form of Sinking Pulse, Intense Pressure must be applied to feel it

Answer 39

Hidden

Question 40

Found shape like a bean, it is short and it trembles under the finger

Answer 40

Moving (Spinning Bean)

Question 41

Jumps like a bean, slippery and rapid with force

Answer 41

Moving (Spinning Bean

Question 42

Very rapid, bit it also feels very agitated and urgent

Answer 42

Hurried, Hasty

Question 43

Broad in diameter and very distinct, suggests excess

Answer 43

Big (Large)