Pulse Indications Summary Chart

Qi and
Excess Excess Phlegm Food Qi Blood Yin Yang Excess Zheng
Pain Blood Dampness Masses Other
Heat Cold Stagnation Stagnation Xu Xu Xu Xu Pathogens Qi Xu
Stagnation
Surging/Hong
Forceful/Shi Excess Zheng Qi
Slippery/Hua
Long/Chang
Wiry/Xuan Liv/GB disorders
Rapid/Shu
Rapid irregular/Cu Atrial Fibrillation
Tight/Jin
Confined, Firm/Lao Hernia
Syncope, lack of
Hidden/Fu
circulation, coma
Moving,
Shock
Throbbing/Dong
Regular Zang Fu Qi Xu,
Intermittent/Dai Wind, Fear
Heart Palpitations,
Hesitant,
Consumption of
Choppy/Se
Essence
Knotted/Jie Heart Palpitations
Short/Duan
Thready/Xi
Soft, Soggy/Ru
Minute,
Indistinct/Wei
Scattered/San Yuan Qi Xu
Damage By
Forceless/Xu
Summerheat
Simultaneous Qi and
Weak/Ruo
Blood Xu
Hollow/Kou Great loss of Blood
Hemorrhage,
Drumskin,
Spermatorrhea,
Tympanic,
Abortion, Heavy
Leathery/Ge
Menstruation
Yuan Qi Xu, Excess
Swift, Hurried/Ji Yang, Heart
Palpitations
Large, Big/Da
Interior
Deep/Chen
Accumulations
Slow/Chi
Slowed
Spleen, Stomach Xu
Down/Huan
External,Yin or Yang
Floating/Fu loosing root in lower
body floating to top