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This pulse category indicates an external pathogen or deficiency.
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Superficial/floating pulse
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These pulses indicate an excess of heat (although two other pulses indicate excess heat, they also indicate several other things - these pulses ONLY indicate excess heat).
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Full/forceful & long
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These two pulses indicate dampness & deficiency (although they have other qualities that make them different, they share indications)
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Soft/soggy & Slowed down/relaxed/loose
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These three pulses are considered Crisis pulses.
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Scattered, swift and minute/feeble/faint
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These two pulses indicate a depletion of Yuan Qi (two of the three crisis pulses)
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Scattered & Swift
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This pulse indicates a significat loss of blood (not just blood deficiency) and therefore severe Yin deficiency.
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Hollow
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This pulse indicates an essence and blood deficiency cold
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Leather/tympanic
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This pulse category indicates an Internal syndrome.
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Deep/sinking
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This pulse indicates closing syndrome, syncope (fainting), or extreme pain.
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Hidden
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This pulse indicates cold, internal excess, a shan disorder or a mass.
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Firm/confined
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This pulse is very common and indicates a Qi or Blood deficiency.
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Weak/frail
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This pulse category indicates a cold syndrome.
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Slow
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This pulse indicates blood stasis/stagnation/deficiency, Qi stagnation, phlegm, food stagnation, or essence deficiency (But NOT Cold)!
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Choppy/uneven/hesitant
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What pulse category does the surging/flooding pulse fall into?
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Superficial
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What pulse category does the soft/soggy pulse fall into?
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Superficial
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What pulse category does the scattered pulse fall into?
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Superficial
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What pulse category does the hollow pulse fall into?
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Superficial
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What pulse category does the leather/tympanic pulse fall into?
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Superficial
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What pulse category does the hidden pulse fall into?
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Deep
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What pulse category does the confined/firm pulse fall into?
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Deep
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What pulse category does the weak/frail pulse fall into?
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Deep
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What pulse category does the relaxed/loose pulse fall into?
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Slow
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What pulse category does the choppy/uneven/hesitant pulse fall into?
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Slow
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What pulse category does the knotted pulse fall into?
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Slow
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What pulse category does the abrupt/hurried/hasty pulse fall into?
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Rapid
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What pulse category does the swift pulse fall into?
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Rapid
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What pulse category does the moving pulse fall into?
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Rapid
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What pulse category does the minute/feeble/faint pulse fall into?
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Deficient
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What pulse category does the thready/thin/fine pulse fall into?
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Deficient
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What pulse category does the intermittent/regularly irregular pulse fall into?
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Deficient
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What pulse category does the short pulse fall into?
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Deficient
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What pulse category does the slippery/rolling pulse fall into?
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Excess
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What pulse category does the tight/tense pulse fall into?
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Excess
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What pulse category does the long pulse fall into?
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Excess
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What pulse category does the wiry/stringy/taught pulse fall into?
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Excess
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This pulse indicates Cold, Yin excess, phlegm, blood stasis or Qi stagnation.
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Knotted
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This pulse category indicates Heat, Excess Yang, pain or fright.
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Rapid
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This pulse indicates Excess Yang/heat, Qi/Blood stagnation, phlegm, or food stagnation.
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Abrupt/hurried/hasty/running
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This pulse mostly indicates Pain or fright.
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Moving
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This pulse category indicates a deficiency syndrome
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Deficient
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This crisis pulse indicates extreme exhaustion of yin/yang/Qi/xue.
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Minute/feeble/faint
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This pulse indicates deficiency due to over strain and stress (blood/Qi deficiency & yin deficiency), or essence deficiency due to chronic illness.
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thready/thin/fine
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This pulse indicates exhaustion of organs or trauma (patient is usually hospitalized or in an advanced disease stage like heart disease)
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intermittent, regularly intermittent
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This pulse indicates Qi deficiency or Qi stagnation.
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short
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This pulse indicates dampness, phlegm, food retention or pregnancy.
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slippery/rolling
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This pulse indicates cold, pain or food retention.
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tight/tense
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This pulse indicates more complex excess heat, such as in a high fever (the yangming stage of disease where the "four greats" can be seen)
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surging/flooding
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This pulse indicates Liver or Gallbladder dysfunction (excess), pain, phlegm, or malaria. Examples include hypertension or Gall stones.
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Wiry/stringy/taught
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This pulse category can best be described as: having the most strength felt at the uppermost level (at the skin) and grows faint or disappears with heavy touch.
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floating/superficial
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This pulse can best be described as: broad, large, forceful, beating like dashing waves that start big and fade away.
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surging/flooding
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This pulse can best be described as: without strength, like a thread floating on water.
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soft/soggy
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This pulse can best be described as: superficial, irregular, without a root, hardly perceptible, indistinct upon heavy touch.
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scattered
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This pulse can best be described as: large, empty, like a scallion stalk, disappears with slight pressure but comes back with more pressure.
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hollow
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This pulse can best be described as: fast, empty, hard, like the skin of a drum.
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leather/tympanic
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This pulse category can best be described as: having strength at the lowest level only, requiring more pressure to feel well.
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deep/sinking
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This pulse can best be described as: only being felt by pressing hard to the bone (deeper than "deep")
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hidden
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This pulse can best be described as: large, long, very deep, but taught and forceful. It also has aspects of full and wiry and can be considered the opposite of the "leather" pulse.
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confined/firm
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This pulse can best be described as: deep, thready, without strength, soft (like the "soft/soggy" pulse but at the deep level).
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weak/frail
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This pulse category can best be described as: having less than 60 beats per minute or less than 4 beats per breath.
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slow
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This pulse can best be described as: slightly slow, but still measuring 60 beats per minute.
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relaxed/loose
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This pulse can best be described as: uneven and rough, like a knife scrapping bamboo, coming and going with a small fine slow tempo.
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choppy/uneven/hesitant
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This pulse can best be described as: irregular and slow, seems to miss a beat without a pattern, pausing at irregular intervals.
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knotted
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This pulse can best be described as: greater than 90 beats per minute or 5 beats per breath.
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rapid
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This pulse can best be described as: greater than 120 beats per minute or 7 beats per breath.
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swift
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This pulse can best be described as: rapid but irregularly intermittent, missing beats without a pattern.
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abrupt/hurried/hasty/running
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This pulse can best be described as: short, slippery, fast, forceful, tight, felt only in one position, incomplete without head or tail.
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moving
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This pulse category can best be described as: forceless on three positions at all three levels, feels feeble and void.
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deficient/empty
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This pulse can best be described as: extremely thin and soft, scarcely perceptible.
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minute/feeble/faint
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This pulse can best be described as: regularly irregular, missing a beat with a definite pattern, pausing at regular intervals.
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intermittent
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This pulse can best be described as: not felt in all three positions.
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short
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This pulse category can best be described as: strong on all three levels and depths and positions, vigorous and forceful with light and heavy pressure.
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excess/full/forceful
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This pulse can best be described as: smooth, flowing like pearls rolling on a dish.
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slippery/rolling
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This pulse can best be described as: like a stretched rope (similar to "wiry" pulse but not as long), difficult to press deeply.
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tight/tense
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This pulse can best be described as: felt beyond the third position.
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long
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This pulse can best be described as: like a violin string, straight and long, similar to "tense" pulse, but longer and more tremulous.
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wiry/stringy/taught
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These three pulses are considered irregular pulses.
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knotted, abrupt/hurried/hasty, and intermittent
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