Pulse Causes

Floating Pulse Means

1) external Pathogen

2) Yang has lost root in yin (yin/blood deficiency) or liver yang rising

Deep Pulse means

1) Yang/Qi Deficiency

2) Pathogen lodged in interior

Slow Pulse means

1) cold

2) Yang deficiency

Rapid pulse means

1) heat

Vacuous pulse means

= forceless .

= deficiency

Replete pulse

= forceful = excess

Scallion stalk pulse means

1) Blood Deficiency***

2) Yang lost root in yin and blood

Wiry Pulse means

• 1) qi stagnation *

  • a) emotional stress

  • b) phlegm may impede qi flow

  • c) blood deficiency may impede qi flow

• 2) Element of deficiency

  • thinner = more def.

Surging Pulse means

1) digesting

2) heat (surge is heat)

3) Deficiency OR external pathogen (floating quality)

Faint Pulse Means

1) Extreme Deficiency

2) Yang threatening to collapse

Long Pulse means

exuberance of Qi and Blood :

1) Normal / healthy (forearm)

2) qi counter-flow / exuberant fire

Short Pulse Means

1) Spleen qi deficiency (can fix fast!)

2) Lung qi def?

Slippery pulse means

1) Normal / healthy

2) phlegm /damp

3) food stagnation

4) Heat

Choppy pulse means

Blood Deficiency

Tight / Tense pulse means

1) cold

2) pain

Moderate pulse means

1) healthy

2) Qi yang deficiency

Hidden Pulse means

1) Severe Qi and Yang deficiency

Thready Pulse Means

Blood Deficiency

Bound Pulse means

1) heart blood stasis

• from heart yang deficiency

Weak Pulse

Yang deficiency

Soft / Soggy pulse means

1) Qi and Blood Deficiency

2) Damp

Regularly Interrupted Pulse means

Heart Blood Stasis

Drumskin Pulse means

• Element of blood loss 

• Essence Deficiency 

• Might see in misscarriage or haemorrhage or post-ejaculation men

Scattered Pulse means

fatal pulse

Stirring Pulse means

jumping bean

Skipping Pulse means

skips beats

Racing Pulse means

yin and yang separating

Confined Pulse means

1) Excess

2) pathogen lodged deep in body