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Heart Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Yin position before Renying at the Cun Kou of the left hand is excess, it indicates the Pericardium Meridian of Hand-Jueyin. The patient suffers from constipation and difficulty in urination, abdominal fullness, heaviness of the four limbs, fever, and gastric distension. Treatment involves needling Zusanli (ST-36).

Heart Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Yin position before Renying at the Cun Kou of the left hand is deficient, it indicates the Pericardium Meridian of Hand-Jueyin. The patient suffers from palpitations and fear, unhappiness, heart and abdominal pain, difficulty in speaking, a cold sensation in the heart, and a trance-like state.

Small Intestine Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Yang position before Renying at the Cun Kou of the left hand is excess, it indicates the Small Intestine Meridian of Hand-Taiyang. The patient suffers from fever that comes and goes, sweating (or absence of sweating according to another version) accompanied by vexation, chest fullness, body heaviness, and sores in the mouth.

Small Intestine Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Yang position before Renying at the Cun Kou of the left hand is deficient, it indicates the Small Intestine Meridian of Hand-Taiyang. The patient suffers from unilateral headache on the sides of the head, and pain in the ears and cheeks.

Heart and Small Intestine Both Excess (Shi)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions before Renying at the Cun Kou of the left hand are excess, it indicates excess in both the Heart Meridian of Hand-Shaoyin and the Small Intestine Meridian of Hand-Taiyang. The patient suffers from headache, fever, difficulty in defecation, vexation and fullness in the heart and abdomen, and inability to lie down. This is due to the failure of Stomach Qi to transform, resulting in stagnation of water and grain.

Heart and Small Intestine Both Deficient (Xu)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions before Renying at the Cun Kou of the left hand are deficient, it indicates deficiency in both the Heart Meridian of Hand-Shaoyin and the Small Intestine Meridian of Hand-Taiyang. The patient suffers from severe diarrhea, aversion to cold, shortness of breath, coldness of the four limbs, and intestinal dysfunction.

Liver Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the left hand at the Yin position is excess, it indicates the Liver Meridian of Foot-Jueyin. The patient suffers from hardness and fullness below the heart, frequent pain in the hypochondrium, and a constant state of indignation resembling anger.

Liver Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the left hand at the Yin position is deficient, it indicates the Liver Meridian of Foot-Jueyin. The patient suffers from hardness under the hypochondrium, alternating chills and fever, abdominal fullness, anorexia, abdominal distension, depression, irregular menstruation in women, and waist and abdominal pain.

Gallbladder Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the left hand at the Yang position is excess, it indicates the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-Shaoyang. The patient suffers from abdominal qi stagnation and fullness, inability to eat, dry throat, heavy head with pain, paroxysmal aversion to cold, and hypochondriac pain.

Gallbladder Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the left hand at the Yang position is deficient, it indicates the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-Shaoyang. The patient suffers from vertigo, syncope, flaccidity syndrome, inability to move the toes, difficulty sitting up or rising, sudden collapse, yellow eyes, seminal emission, and mental restlessness.

Liver and Gallbladder Both Excess (Shi)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions at the Guan position of the left hand are excess, it indicates excess in both the Liver Meridian of Foot-Jueyin and the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-Shaoyang. The patient suffers from epigastric distension, vomiting and regurgitation, and indigestion.

Liver and Gallbladder Both Deficient (Xu)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions at the Guan position of the left hand are deficient, it indicates deficiency in both the Liver Meridian of Foot-Jueyin and the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-Shaoyang. The patient suffers from mental confusion, corpse-like syncope with loss of consciousness, hallucinations, shortness of breath with inability to speak, and frequent spontaneous fright.

Kidney Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the left hand at the Yin position is excess, it indicates the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin. The patient suffers from bladder distension and retention, and pulling pain between the lower abdomen and the lumbar spine.
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the left hand at the Yin position is excess, it indicates the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin. The patient suffers from dry tongue, swollen and painful throat, vexation, dry pharynx, occasional chest and hypochondriac pain, wheezing and coughing, sweating, lower abdominal fullness, stiff and urgent back and waist, heavy body with hot bones, dark yellow urine, irritability and forgetfulness, hot and painful soles, blackish discoloration of the four limbs, and deafness.

Kidney Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the left hand at the Yin position is deficient, it indicates the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin. The patient suffers from chest oppression, heaviness in the lower body, and swollen feet that cannot touch the ground.

Bladder Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the left hand at the Yang position is excess, it indicates the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from rebellious qi and fullness, lumbar pain, inability to bend or extend, triggered by fatigue.

Bladder Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the left hand at the Yang position is deficient, it indicates the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from tendon cramps in the feet, abdominal pain radiating to the back, inability to flex or extend, muscle spasms, aversion to wind, hemiplegia, lumbar pain, and pain behind the lateral malleolus.

Kidney and Bladder Both Excess (Shi)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions after Shenmen of the left hand are excess, it indicates excess in both the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin and the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from spinal rigidity and opisthotonos, upward deviation of the eyes, qi rushing to the heart, spinal pain, and inability to turn over independently.

Kidney and Bladder Both Deficient (Xu)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions after Shenmen of the left hand are deficient, it indicates deficiency in both the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin and the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from frequent urination, heart pain, coldness of the back, and occasional lower abdominal fullness.

Lung Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Yin position before Qikou at the Cun Kou of the right hand is excess, it indicates the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin. The patient suffers from lung distension, profuse sweating as if showered, upward rushing of qi and wheezing, obstruction in the throat, and a sensation resembling impending vomiting.

Lung Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Yin position before Qikou at the Cun Kou of the right hand is deficient, it indicates the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin. The patient suffers from shortness of breath with insufficient respiration, dry throat, and lack of saliva in the mouth.

Large Intestine Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Yang position before Qikou at the Cun Kou of the right hand is excess, it indicates the Large Intestine Meridian of Hand-Yangming. The patient suffers from abdominal fullness, frequent wheezing and coughing, red face and body heat, and a sensation of a lump in the throat.

Large Intestine Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Yang position before Qikou at the Cun Kou of the right hand is deficient, it indicates the Large Intestine Meridian of Hand-Yangming. The patient suffers from chest wheezing, borborygmus, thirst with dry lips and mouth, tense eyes, susceptibility to fright, and passage of white loose stools.

Lung and Large Intestine Both Excess (Shi)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions before Qikou at the Cun Kou of the right hand are excess, it indicates excess in both the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin and the Large Intestine Meridian of Hand-Yangming. The patient suffers from headache, vertigo, mania, painful bi-syndrome of the throat, curled arms, and relaxed lips and corners of the mouth.

Lung and Large Intestine Both Deficient (Xu)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions before Qikou at the Cun Kou of the right hand are deficient, it indicates deficiency in both the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin and the Large Intestine Meridian of Hand-Yangming. The patient suffers from noisy tinnitus, occasional visual hallucinations of light, unhappiness, and occasional feelings of terror.

Spleen Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the right hand at the Yin position is excess, it indicates the Spleen Meridian of Foot-Taiyin. The patient suffers from cold feet and hot calves, abdominal fullness, and restlessness preventing sleep.

Spleen Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the right hand at the Yin position is deficient, it indicates the Spleen Meridian of Foot-Taiyin. The patient suffers from watery diarrhea, abdominal fullness, rebellious qi, cholera-like vomiting, jaundice, vexation preventing sleep, and borborygmus.

Stomach Excess (Shi)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the right hand at the Yang position is excess, it indicates the Stomach Meridian of Foot-Yangming. The patient suffers from hard and painful abdomen with heat (Qianjin Fang records headache instead), absence of sweating, symptoms resembling warm malaria, dry lips and mouth, frequent hiccups, mastitis, and swelling and pain in the supraclavicular fossa and axilla.

Stomach Deficiency (Xu)
When the pulse at the Guan position of the right hand at the Yang position is deficient, it indicates the Stomach Meridian of Foot-Yangming. The patient suffers from cold calves, inability to sleep, aversion to cold with shivering, tense eyes, abdominal pain, hollow borborygmus (Waitai Mi Yao records hollow tinnitus in ears), alternating chills and fever, dry lips and mouth, and edema of the face and eyes.

Spleen and Stomach Both Excess (Shi)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions at the Guan position of the right hand are excess, it indicates excess in both the Spleen Meridian of Foot-Taiyin and the Stomach Meridian of Foot-Yangming. The patient suffers from spleen distension and hard abdomen, qi rushing to painful hypochondrium, failure of stomach qi to transform, difficulty in defecation, occasional diarrhea, abdominal pain, qi rushing to the lungs and liver, disturbance of the five zang organs, immediate wheezing and rhonchi, frequent fright, body heat, absence of sweating, bi-syndrome of the throat, and depletion of essence.

Spleen and Stomach Both Deficient (Xu)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions at the Guan position of the right hand are deficient, it indicates deficiency in both the Spleen Meridian of Foot-Taiyin and the Stomach Meridian of Foot-Yangming. The patient suffers from a hollow sensation in the stomach, shortness of breath with insufficient respiration, cold extremities, and persistent watery diarrhea.

Kidney Excess (Right Hand)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the right hand at the Yin position is excess, it indicates the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin. The patient suffers from bi-syndrome, body heat, heart pain, pulling pain between the spine and hypochondrium, and rebellious heat and vexation in the feet.

Kidney Deficiency (Right Hand)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the right hand at the Yin position is deficient, it indicates the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin. The patient suffers from thin and weak calves, aversion to wind and cold, intermittent or absent pulse, cold feet, heaviness in the upper body and lightness in the lower body, inability to bear weight while walking, lower abdominal fullness, qi rushing to the chest, and hypochondriac pain radiating to the costal margin.

Bladder Excess (Right Hand)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the right hand at the Yang position is excess, it indicates the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from cystocele with inability to urinate, dizziness and headache, vexation and fullness, and spinal rigidity.

Bladder Deficiency (Right Hand)
When the pulse at the Chi position after Shenmen of the right hand at the Yang position is deficient, it indicates the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from muscle twitching, tendon cramps in the feet, sudden deafness, aversion to wind, and rustling sounds.

Kidney and Bladder Both Excess (Right Hand)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions after Shenmen of the right hand are excess, it indicates excess in both the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin and the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from epilepsy, heavy head, pulling pain in the eyes leading to syncope, desire to rise and run, upward deviation of the eyes, severe wind disease, and profuse sweating.

Kidney and Bladder Both Deficient (Right Hand)
When the pulses at both Yin and Yang positions after Shenmen of the right hand are deficient, it indicates deficiency in both the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin and the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. The patient suffers from heart pain, heaviness in the lower body with inability to retract, rectal prolapse, frequent severe diarrhea, cold-type diarrhea, and pain in both the kidney and heart. Another theory states: There are two kidneys but only one bladder. In clinical application, the left kidney should be paired with the bladder, and the right kidney with the Sanjiao.