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The *Mai Jue* (Pulse Classic) states: Night sweating due to Yin deficiency is often accompanied by symptoms of consumptive disease; this is merely one aspect. Generally speaking, sweat is the surplus of blood (Jinye, body fluids); if Yin is weak, then Blood is insufficient, and one should expect scanty sweating. The mention here of slight night sweating implies a pulse that is soft and choppy. If the Bladder pulse at the right Chi position is urgent and deep, and the Heart pulse is bounding and active, it indicates night sweating. If the lower abdomen pulse is choppy, sudden loss of essence may occur.

If all six pulses are slippery, it indicates sweating, because there is an excess of Yin Qi, leading to profuse sweating.

If the Heart pulse is large and slippery, and the Kidney pulse is bounding and deep, since sweat is the fluid of the Heart, the current state of a large and slippery Heart pulse suggests that Water (Kidney) is invading Fire (Heart) and disturbing it, thus causing sweating.

If the Heart pulse alone is large and surging, and all six pulses are rapid and active, it indicates sudden sweating during sleep, because the Heart Qi uniquely governs this phenomenon.

If all six pulses are soggy, damp, and heavy, and the Spleen pulse is large and damp, it indicates sweating with aversion to wind.

If all six pulses are faint and choppy, the Kidney pulse is soft and deep, arriving slowly and departing quickly, resembling the Dai pulse (Intermittent Pulse), and the Heart pulse is deep, it indicates weakness of Yuan Yang (Primordial Yang) and Zheng Qi (Upright Qi). Symptoms include impotence, dribbling urine, and upon slight exposure to wind or rain, or suddenly consuming cold food, chest obstruction occurs, feeling as if a lump is in the throat, with no taste for food.

Obstruction in the diaphragm makes swallowing difficult; the hypochondrium feels distended; suddenly, Qi pain rushes to the heart, unbearable. The complexion is greenish-yellow. The Liver and Heart pulses are choppy and deep; with heavy pressure, they are slow and forceless, resembling the state after bathing and lifting heavy weights, arriving slowly and departing quickly. There is chest obstruction, reduced appetite, weakness in walking, and deficiency-cold in the Large Intestine. At irregular times, a cold line is felt in the precordial region extending up to the throat; this is Cold Ge (Dysphagia/Obstruction).

If all six pulses are choppy and floating, it indicates sweating. The Liver and Heart pulses are floating, large, and forceless; the Stomach pulse is large and scattered. With heavy pressure, although lacking bone-force, it comes faintly. Only the pulses at the Chize (LU5) point on both wrists are slightly short. There is chest-diaphragmatic obstruction, reduced appetite, constipation with heat, irregularity, irritability after eating salty foods, dryness of the throat after eating warm foods, phlegm-solidity, dizziness of the head and eyes, weakness in the legs making it hard to rise, sores on the tongue, cracked lips, salivation at irregular times, dry cough caused by saliva rushing to the Lung, sudden hunger followed by vomiting upon seeing food, and inability to retain food in the abdomen. This is Heat Ge (Dysphagia/Obstruction).

If all six pulses have slight bone-force but arrive slowly, are slightly small, and slightly urgent, it indicates Cold-Heat Qi Ge. The condition involves heat in the Large Intestine, sudden passage of yellow fecal juice, chest-diaphragmatic obstruction and discomfort, and accumulation of stagnant Qi.

If all six pulses are floating, large, and light with bone-force, arriving slowly and departing quickly, and the Lung pulse is biased large and floating, overflowing and gathering at the Cun Kou (Radial artery), it indicates Heat Ye (Choking/Obstruction). There is precordial obstruction preventing passage, difficulty swallowing food, soup and water only reaching the throat before being vomited back, and even swallowed saliva reaching only the throat before being expelled. The mouth is sticky, there is irregular sleepiness, overflow of saliva, constipation with heat. One should use purgative medicines to clear the heat of the Large Intestine. As mentioned above, use drugs to guide the bowels; once the Large Intestine is unblocked, the pulse qi becomes large and full like reality, but departs rapidly, differing from ordinary large pulses. Then, use mild herbs to resolve the Lung, regulate Qi, benefit the Stomach, and transform phlegm.

If all six pulses present the Ge pulse, the Liver pulse is biased large and choppy, and the Lung pulse is horizontal and obstructing, it indicates the condition was caused by anger, accompanied by constipation.

If all six pulses present the Ge pulse, the Liver and Heart pulses are minute and wiry, with slight bone-force and slow arrival, it indicates the condition was caused by sorrow and worry. Food seems to circulate in the chest before descending faintly. This is due to Wind not transforming and Blood not being abundant. One should tonify the Liver and Heart and regulate Qi.

If all six pulses are soggy and hidden, and with heavy pressure feel moving but lack bone-force, it indicates Cold Ye. Symptoms include inability to eat, cold limbs, and a sensation of cold matter filling the chest.

If all six pulses are soggy and hidden, and the Stomach pulse is biased heavy, turbid, and heavy, it indicates Stomach Cold. The Ge condition was contracted from walking in dampness. Symptoms include cold limbs, precordial obstruction, and inability to swallow food.