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38 Cards in this Set
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Slow pulse feels like?
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3 beats per respiration cycle or slowly for age according to chart.
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Rapid pulse feels like?
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More than 5 beats per respiration cycle or higher than normal per chart
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Long pulse indicates?
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Heat pattern
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Full pulse feels like?
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Feels full, rather hard and long. Forceful
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Full pulse indicates what?
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Pathogen.
Full/rapid is Full/heat Full/Slow is Full/cold |
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Empty pulse feels like?
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Rather Big but soft. Underinflated tube, soft empty
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Empty pulse indicates what?
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Qi deficiency
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Slippery pulse feels like?
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Smooth, rounded, feeling like a pearl rolling
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Slippery pulse indicates?
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Phlegm, Dampness, retention of food or pregnancy
Full/Weak is phlegm or dampness w/QI deficiency |
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Choppy pulse feels like?
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Rough under the finger. Changes rapidly in rate and quality. Like cutting bamboo
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Long pulse feels like?
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Longer than normal, extending beyond normal pulse position
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Short pulse feels like?
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Occupies a shorter space than the normal position
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Fine or thin pulse feels like?
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Thinner than normal
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Wiry pulse feels like?
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Taut like a guitar string...really hits the fingers
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Hollow pulse indicates?
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Appears after a haemorrhage, or may indicate a forthcoming loss of blood
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Firm pulse feels like?
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Can ONLY be felt at the deep level. Hard and wiry
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Firm pulse indicates?
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Interior Cold, if slow
Interior stagnation and pain |
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Weak pulse feels like?
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Can only be felt on a deep level
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Weak pulse indicates?
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Deficiency of Yang
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Knotted pulse feels like?
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Slow and stops at irregular intervals
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Hidden pulse feels like?
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Faint, as if hidden beneath bone. VERY deep and difficult to feel
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Hidden pulse indicates?
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extreme deficiency of Yang
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Hasty pulse feels like?
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Rapid and stops at irregular intervals
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Hasty pulse indicates?
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Extreme Heat and deficiency of Heart-QI, or Heart/Fire
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Knotted pulse indicates?
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Cold and deficiency of Heart-QI or Heart-Yang
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Intermittent pulse feels like?
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Stops at regular intervals
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Intermittent pulse indicates?
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Serious internal problem of one or more Yin organs, or serious heart problem
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Wiry pulse can indicate which 3 different conditions?
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Liver disharmony
Pain Phlegm |
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Floating or superficial pulse means what?
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Presence of an exterior pattern from invasion by exterior pathogen.
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Floating (or superficial pulse) feels like?
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This pulse can be felt w/light pressure of the fingers, just resting the fingers on the artery.
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Deep Pulse feels like?
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Can only be felt w/heavy pressure of the fingers. Is felt near the bone
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Deep pulse means what?
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Indicates an Interior condition, in the YIN organs
Deep/weak is deficiency of QI and Yang Deep/full is stasis of QI or blood |
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Hollow pulse feels like?
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Present at the superficial level, but absent at the middle level, strong again at the deep level. Empty in middle
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Rapid pulse indicates what?
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Heat pattern
Empty/Rapid is Empty/Heat from YIN deficiency Full/Rapid is Full/Heat. |
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Short pulse indicates?
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Deficiency of QI...specifically Stomach-QI
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Slow pulse indicates what?
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A cold pattern.
Slow/Empty is Empty-Cold from deficiency of Yang. Slow/Full is Full-Cold |
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Fine pulse indicates?
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Deficiency of Blood/Yin.
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Choppy pulse indicates?
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Deficiency of Blood.
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