Common pulse characteristics and clinical significance in traditional Chinese medicine diagnostics

1. Floating pulse

Characteristics of the pulse: it can be obtained by taking it lightly, but it will decrease by pressing it hard; there is more than enough when you lift it, but it is not enough when you press it.

Clinical significance: Mainly external syndrome, but also internal deficiency (deficiency of yang and external excess).

2. Deep pulse

Characteristics of the pulse: if you press lightly, you can get it by pressing it hard; if you press it hard, you can press it enough.

Clinical significance: Internal syndrome, commonly seen in diarrhea, edema, vomiting, stagnation and qi stagnation, etc.

3. Slow pulse

Pulse characteristics: The pulse is slow, less than 4 pulses in one breath (less than 60 pulses in one minute).

Clinical significance: It mainly controls cold syndrome, and also mainly focuses on the accumulation of pathogenic heat.

4. Count the pulse

Pulse characteristics: The pulse is rapid, 5-6 to 5 in one breath.

Clinical significance: It mainly treats heat syndrome and deficiency syndrome.

5. Hong Pulse

Pulse characteristics: The pulse is wide, surging all over the fingers, rising and falling.

Clinical significance: Mainly heat is very severe (qi is very hot).

6. Thin pulse

Pulse characteristics: The pulse is as thin as a line, which should be obvious and should be pressed continuously.

Clinical significance: Mainly used for Qi and blood deficiency and various fatigue and fatigue injuries; Mainly used for dampness invasion.

7. Micropulse

Characteristics of the pulse: extremely thin and soft, almost as if there is none when pressed.

Clinical significance: Mainly due to severe deficiency of qi and blood, and weakening of yang qi.

8. Scattered pulse

Characteristics of pulse: Floating and rootless, it should be scattered and disappear when pressed.

Clinical significance: Due to the dissipation of vitality, the internal organs are exhausted.

9. Deficient pulse

Characteristics of pulse: weak when lifted, hollow when pressed, should be soft, which is the general term for all weak pulses.

Clinical significance: Mainly deficiency syndrome.

10. Solid pulse

Pulse characteristics: it should refer to the width and width, which is the general term for all powerful pulses.

Clinical significance: Mainly empirical.

11. Sliding pulse

Characteristics of pulse: fluent, like a running ball, should be smooth.

Clinical significance: Mainly treats the syndromes of phlegm and fluid retention, food stagnation, and excessive heat.

12. Astringent pulse

Pulse characteristics: difficult and astringent, like scraping bamboo with a light knife.

Clinical significance: It mainly damages sperm, lacks blood, stops phlegm and food, and causes qi stagnation and blood stasis.

13. Long pulse

Pulse characteristics: The pulse body is long, exceeding Cun Guanchi

Clinical significance: Mainly Yang syndrome, physical syndrome, and heat syndrome.

14. Short pulse

Pulse characteristics: only appear in the Guan part, not other parts.

Clinical significance: Shortness governs qi disease, strength means qi stagnation, and weakness means qi damage.

15. String pulse

Pulse characteristics: straight and long, like pressing a string.

Clinical significance: Mainly used for hepatobiliary diseases, various pain syndromes, phlegm, malaria, etc.

16. Pulse pulse

Pulse characteristics: large and hollow, like pressing an onion tube.

Clinical significance: blood loss.

17. Tight pulse

Pulse characteristics: The pulse shape is urgent, like a rope turning around.

Clinical significance: Mainly used for cold syndrome, pain syndrome, and food intake.

18. Slow pulse

Pulse characteristics: four breaths in one breath, slow in coming and going.

Clinical significance: Mainly used for spleen deficiency or dampness syndrome.

19. Leather pulse

Pulse characteristics: hollow and firm on the outside, like pressing on the skin of a drum.

Clinical significance: loss of blood, loss of sperm, half-birth, leakage, etc.

20. Lao Pulse

Characteristics of the pulse: Real and long, long and heavy, firm and unwavering.

Clinical significance: Yin-cold internal excess, hernia syndrome.

21. Weak pulse

Pulse characteristics: extremely soft and thin.

Clinical significance: Mainly due to deficiency of Yang Qi or deficiency of both Qi and blood.

22. Wetting the pulse

Characteristics of pulse: floating and soft, like floating water.

Clinical significance: It controls various deficiencies and dampness.

23. Pulse pulse

Characteristics of the pulse: it is deeper than the deep pulse and needs to be pressed heavily on the bone to find it, or it may even not appear when it is down.

Clinical significance: evil blockage, syncope disease, extreme pain (voltage and strength).

24. Arteries

Pulse characteristics: pulse like beans, seen in the joints.

Clinical significance: Commonly seen in panic and pain symptoms.

25. Pulse-stimulating

Characteristics of pulse condition: stopping after a few counts, stopping for an indefinite number.

Clinical significance: Mainly when Yang is in excess of heat.

26. Pulse knot

Pulse characteristics: slow and stopping, with no fixed number of stops.

Clinical significance: Controls Yin and Qi knots.

27. Dai Pulse

Pulse characteristics: The pulse comes and stops, the pulse stops at a certain number, and it takes a long time to come.

Clinical significance: Mainly the decline of internal organs.

28. Disease pulse

Pulse characteristics: Seven to more times per breath.

Clinical significance: It is more common when yang is uncontrolled and true yin is exhausted.