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Floating pulse: At the cun position, a floating pulse indicates headache due to wind pathogen and phlegm accumulation in the chest; at the guan position, it indicates weak stomach qi; at the chi position, it leads to obstruction of urination and defecation.

The floating pulse indicates exterior syndromes: forceful indicates wind, forceless indicates blood deficiency; floating and slow indicate exterior cold, floating and rapid indicate wind-heat.

Floating and tight indicate wind-cold; floating and relaxed indicate wind-dampness; floating and deficient indicate summerheat injury; floating and hollow (like a scallion stalk) indicate blood loss; floating and surging indicate deficient fire.

Floating and faint indicate consumptive diseases; floating and soft (soft and floating fine) indicate yin deficiency; floating and scattered (floating large without root) indicate extreme qi deficiency; floating and wiry indicate retention of phlegm and food; floating and slippery indicate phlegm-heat.

Floating and fine indicate qi deficiency; floating and choppy indicate weak blood.

Sinking pulse: At the cun position, a sinking pulse indicates phlegm in the chest; at the guan position, it indicates cold pain in the epigastrium; at the chi position, it indicates lower back pain, seminal emission, turbid urine, and diarrhea.

The sinking pulse indicates interior syndromes, primarily cold and accumulation: forceful indicates phlegm and food retention, forceless indicates qi stagnation; sinking and slow indicate deficient cold.

Sinking and rapid indicate hidden heat; sinking and tight indicate cold pain; sinking and relaxed indicate water retention; sinking and firm (sinking, solid, long, and strong) indicate chronic cold; sinking and excess indicate extreme heat.

Sinking and weak indicate yang deficiency; sinking and fine indicate damp-bi syndrome; sinking and wiry indicate pain from fluid retention; sinking and slippery indicate retained food; sinking and deep (requiring heavy pressure to feel) indicate vomiting and diarrhea, yin toxicity and accumulation; sinking and choppy indicate blood stasis; the sinking pulse also governs bone diseases.

Slow pulse: At the cun position, a slow pulse indicates upper jiao cold; at the guan position, it indicates cold pain in the stomach; at the chi position, it indicates diseases of the waist and feet, seven types of hernia, and loose stools.

The slow pulse indicates zang organ diseases: forceful indicates cold pain, forceless indicates deficient cold; slow and choppy indicate blood insufficiency; slow and relaxed indicate cold-dampness; slow and slippery indicate distension and fullness; floating and slow indicate exterior cold, sinking and slow indicate interior cold, governing cold accumulation and mass formations.

Rapid pulse: At the cun position, a rapid pulse indicates throat and mouth diseases, coughing, and hemoptysis; at the guan position, it indicates liver and stomach fire; at the chi position, it indicates yin deficiency.

The rapid pulse indicates fu organ diseases, primarily vomiting and mania: forceful indicates excess heat, forceless indicates deficient sores; floating and rapid indicate exterior heat, sinking and rapid indicate interior heat; deficient and rapid indicate lung flaccidity; right cun rapid and excess indicate lung abscess.

Slippery pulse: At the cun position, a slippery pulse indicates excessive phlegm with vomiting, acid regurgitation, and cough; at the guan position, it indicates retained food and heat in the liver and spleen meridians. (At the chi position, it indicates strangury, turbid urine, and urgent diarrhea.)

The slippery pulse indicates phlegm and food: upward it causes vomiting and reversal, downward it indicates blood retention; floating and slippery indicate wind-phlegm, sinking and slippery indicate food-phlegm.

Slippery and rapid indicate phlegm-fire; slippery and short indicate retained food; slippery and large indicate genital pain; slippery and scattered indicate paralysis; abundant blood results in a slippery pulse.

Choppy pulse: At the cun position, a choppy pulse indicates heart deficiency and chest pain; at the guan position, it indicates hypochondriac distension; at the chi position, it indicates damage to essence and blood, strangury, turbid urine, and red stool.

The choppy pulse indicates blood insufficiency or cold-dampness from trauma; choppy and large indicate excess heat, choppy and weak indicate deficient fire; if qi is abundant but the pulse is choppy, it may manifest as reverse flow, colon obstruction, spontaneous sweating, cold limbs, yang collapse with cold-dampness; in women, pregnancy may lead to fetal damage, while non-pregnancy may indicate blood degeneration.

Deficient pulse: At the cun position, a deficient pulse indicates blood depletion; at the guan position, it indicates abdominal distension; at the chi position, it indicates damage to essence and blood, bone-steaming, flaccidity, and bi-syndrome.

A deficient pulse indicates blood deficiency, qi deficiency, and physical weakness, manifesting as spontaneous sweating, palpitations, yin-deficiency fever, fright, palpitations, and summerheat injury; a deficient pulse in chronic illness indicates death.

Excess pulse: At the cun position, an excess pulse indicates facial wind-heat, sore throat, and qi blockage; at the guan position, it indicates chest oppression; at the chi position, it indicates lower back pain and constipation; excess and tight indicate cold binding, excess and slippery indicate phlegm coagulation; an excess pulse indicates blood excess, disease caused by water and grain stagnation,郁fire causing mania, delirious speech, frequent vomiting, yang toxicity from food injury, fecal binding, and qi pain.

Long pulse: Indicates severe heat in the stomach meridian, yang toxicity, and epilepsy. The long pulse belongs to the liver and is suitable for spring.

A long pulse indicates vigorous qi; floating and long indicate convulsions and epilepsy.

Short pulse: At the cun position, a short pulse indicates headache; at the guan position, it indicates damage from alcohol and food; at the chi position, it indicates lower back pain.

The short pulse belongs to the lung and is suitable for autumn.

A short pulse indicates qi pain; sinking and short indicate retained food.

Surging pulse: At the cun position, a surging pulse indicates blood loss; at the guan position, it indicates liver fire, stomach deficiency, and epigastric pain; at the chi position, it indicates kidney damage.

The surging pulse indicates yin deficiency, bloody diarrhea, abdominal distension, and reverse flow; a surging pulse with emaciation and excessive qi indicates death. It is contraindicated in chronic cough.

Faint pulse: At the cun position, a faint pulse indicates急促 breathing and heart fright; at the guan position, it indicates abdominal distension; at the chi position, it indicates damage to essence and blood.

Floating and faint indicate aversion to cold; sinking and faint indicate fever; in men, a faint pulse indicates deficiency and wasting; in women, it indicates metrorrhagia and leukorrhea.

Tight pulse: Left cun tight indicates cold injury; right cun tight indicates food injury; guan tight indicates heart and abdominal pain; chi tight indicates hernia and running piglet qi.

The tight pulse indicates cold pain; floating and tight indicate exterior cold, sinking and tight indicate interior cold; tight and rapid indicate demonic afflictions (sudden strange illnesses), wheezing, coughing, convulsions, and epilepsy; middle evil with floating tight, coughing with sinking tight both indicate death.

Relaxed pulse: At the cun position, a relaxed pulse indicates wind pathogen; at the guan position, it indicates weak stomach; at the chi position, it indicates loose stools, flaccidity, bi-syndrome, and wind-induced constipation.

Floating and relaxed indicate wind; sinking and relaxed indicate dampness; relaxed and large indicate wind-deficiency; relaxed and fine indicate damp-bi; relaxed and weak indicate qi damage; relaxed and choppy indicate blood injury; relaxed and slippery indicate damp-phlegm; blood deficiency with abundant qi.

Hollow pulse: At the cun position, a hollow pulse indicates blood stasis; at the guan position, it indicates intestinal and gastric abscesses; at the chi position, it indicates bloody stool, red strangury, and metrorrhagia.

A hollow pulse in chronic illness indicates survival; a hollow pulse in acute illness indicates death.

Wiry pulse: At the cun position, a wiry pulse indicates headache and phlegm in the chest and diaphragm; left guan wiry indicates mass formations; right guan wiry indicates heart and abdominal pain; chi wiry indicates seven types of hernia and limb spasms.

Floating and wiry indicate headache; sinking and wiry indicate abdominal pain; wiry and rapid indicate much heat; wiry and slow indicate much cold; wiry and large indicate deficiency.

Wiry and fine indicate spasm; single wiry indicates pain from fluid retention; double wiry indicates chronic cold; phlegm-fluid, malaria; if the pulse is wiry and the patient refuses food, it indicates wood overcoming earth, which is untreatable.

Leather pulse: In women, it indicates miscarriage and metrorrhagia; in men, it indicates yin essence loss and nocturnal emission.

Firm pulse: Indicates cold pain in the heart and abdomen, hernia qi, and mass formations; loss of blood with a floating and large pulse indicates death.

Soft pulse (pronounced 'ruan'): At the cun position, a soft pulse indicates spontaneous sweating and qi deficiency; at the guan position, it indicates qi damage; at the chi position, it indicates damage to essence and blood, bone-steaming from dampness.

Weak pulse at cun indicates qi deficiency; at guan, weak stomach; at chi, yin deficiency.

Weak pulse: Indicates qi deficiency, manifesting as aversion to cold and fever, weak sinews and bones, fright, palpitations, and spontaneous sweating; the weak pulse also governs sinew diseases.

Scattered pulse: Left scattered indicates palpitations; right scattered indicates spontaneous sweating; left guan scattered indicates fluid retention; right guan scattered indicates foot swelling; chi scattered is mostly a sign of death.

Fine pulse: At the cun position, a fine pulse indicates vomiting; at the guan position, it indicates abdominal distension; at the chi position, it indicates seminal emission and loose stools with cold deficiency.

A fine pulse indicates decline of both qi and blood, dampness damaging waist and kidneys, hematemesis and epistaxis from excessive worry and labor; a sinking and fine pulse indicates survival.

Deep pulse: At the cun position, a deep pulse indicates food stagnation; at the guan position, it indicates abdominal pain; at the chi position, it indicates hernia qi.

Vomiting in cholera, retained food, and old phlegm; a deep pulse is due to internal depression of fire pathogen, extreme yang resembling yin, requiring profuse sweating to resolve; in cold damage with yin involvement, there is pre-existing hidden cold plus external cold invasion, yin excess repelling yang, cold limbs, and deep pulse, requiring Ginger and Aconite Decoction.

Moving pulse: Indicates loose stools, spasms, abdominal pain, and fright; in women, leukorrhea and bleeding; in men, seminal emission.

Floating moving indicates night sweats; sinking moving indicates fever.

Rushing pulse: Yang abundance results in a rushing pulse; rushing pulse indicates qi stagnation, wheezing, coughing, phlegm accumulation, mania, macules, and lung abscess with heat toxin.

Knotted pulse: Yin abundance results in a knotted pulse; indicates coagulation of both qi and blood, carbuncles, hernias, mass formations, and long-standing old phlegm.

Intermittent pulse: Intermittent pulse indicates qi decline, manifesting as carbuncles with pus and blood, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cholera, traumatic shock; in women, it can occur at three months of pregnancy.