Pulse diagnosis

Pulse diagnosis- types
Floating -  strong enough to rise but not strong enough to be felt under pressure.
Significance- external attacks and superficial diseases
Sinking- needs heavy pressure to be felt
Significance- internal diseases
Slow- 3 beats or less per respiration
Significances- Cold diseases, Yang Xu
Rapid- 6 beats or more per respiration
Significance- hot diseases, deficient diseases
Empty- very weak with wide form
Significance- deficient diseases, mainly Qi Xu.
Used as a collective term for pulses without strength.
Full- very strong wide form.
Significance- excess diseases.
Used as a collective term for pulses with strength
Slippery- comes and goes smoothly like beads on a plate usually
Significance- phlegm or food accumulation but can also indicate pregnancy.
Choppy- relatively weak and unsmooth beats, like a knife lightly scraping bamboo.
Significance- Blood Xu or extravasated Blood
Wiry- usually has strength, and is long and straight like the wires or a musical instrument.
Significance- Liver and Gallbladder diseases, Phlegm or pain.
Soft- relatively weak floating and thin mainly indicates Qi and Blood Xu or trapped Dampness Flooding strong wide form, comes with strength, but goes weakly mainly indicates Hot diseases with abundant perverse Qi and means progression
Minute- very weak pulse form thin and indistinct Qi and Blood Xu with prolapse
Thin- very weak very thin Qi and Blood Xu (mainly Blood Xu), or Yin Xusometimes also called and small pulse
Weak- without strength sinking Qi and Blood Xu Big wide form refers only to pulse form, not to strength
Scattered very weak floating, bit and without root Qi and Blood exhausted and scattered, Jing Qi about to be exhausted
Tight strong wiry mainly indicates Cold and pain
Hollow- weak floating and hollow in the center, like a shallot stalk
Significance- death of Blood, loss of Jing, usually seen in excessive loss of Blood
Leather weak when pressed heavily wiry and hollow as above
Firm- deep and strong
Significance- Cold pain and means Yin Cold abundant internally usually called sinking and wiry
Very rapid-7 beats or more per respiration basically the same as the rapid pulse but usually suggests deficiency
Moving- 6 beats or more per respiration short, slippery, rapid, jumps like a bean
Significance high fever, palpitations, pregnancy
Hidden- deeper than the sinking pulse perverse Qi trapped internally, sudden prolapse of Yang Qi
Lesurely- 3 to 4 beats per respiration normalHasty6 beats or more per respiration irregular pulse Zang Fu Qi Xu, circulation of Heart Qi and Heat Blood being blocked, occasionally seen normal people
Knotted- 4 beats or less per respiration irregular pulse
Intermittent-regular pauses
Long pulse- form long
Short pulse- form short