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Developments in Chinese medicine from the Song through the Qing
Published in Vivienne Lo, Michael Stanley-Baker, Dolly Yang, Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, 2022
Li’s Pulse Studies of the Lakeside Master organised and codified pulse diagnosis into the twenty-seven pulses that are the basis for Chinese medical pulse diagnosis today.17 Finally, his Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels synthesised and extrapolated upon previous ideas concerning the Extraordinary Vessels, particularly with regard to herbal medicine.18 Li’s integration of Daoist inner elixir (neidan 内丹) principles of internal cultivation into medical practice in this text is representative of the widespread interest in such practices during the Ming.19
The Chinese Style of Healing: The Best Holistic Medicine and Herbal Medicine
Published in Joseph P. Hou, The Healing Power of Ginseng, 2019
Diagnosis in Chinese medicine, or zue-chen, is listed in Nei Ching. There are four basic methods used to diagnose a patient. They are visual observation, questioning about case history, auditory systems, and taking the pulse. Chinese pulsology, developed in great detail by Wang Shu-ho, recognizes three spots along the radial artery of each wrist, detected with the tips of three fingers. The pulse readings reflect the functioning of different viscera. In Chinese medicine, pulse-taking has been the chief method of diagnosis. At the three pulse spots each wrist has a deep and a superficial reading, thus giving a total of 12 different pulses. If the patient is a female, the right radial artery is palpated first; if a male, the left is palpated first. The rate, strength, and direction of the beat in each segment of the pulse are determined. A strong pulse indicates a yang-type disease, while a weak pulse represents a yin-type disease. Only experienced doctors can diagnose malfunction of any part of the internal organs. Obviously this is quite a different diagnosis technique from that in Western medicine. The art of pulse diagnosis is extremely complex in the way it works. This has been the chief point of controversy between those who understand and those who do not.
The Lung Channel (LU)
Published in Narda G. Robinson, Interactive Medical Acupuncture Anatomy, 2016
Radial artery and the communications between the deep palmar arterial arch and the palmar carpal arches: These anastomoses provide collateral circulation at the wrist. Chinese pulse diagnosis assesses the quality of the impulse at various positions along the radial artery, including locations over LU 7, LU 8, and LU 9. System wide changes such as aging and stress alter histological features in the arterial wall, leading to changes in pulse quality.2,3 For example, the Chinese pulse diagnosis of “liver qi stagnation” associated with emotional turmoil, taut pulse, and chest pain would equate with sympathetic nervous system arousal in contemporary biomedicine.
Parameter study on characteristic pulse diagram of polycystic ovary syndrome based on logistic regression analysis
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Weiying Wang, Weiwei Zeng, Xinmin Chen, Liping Tu, Jiatuo Xu, Xiuqi Yin
Pulse diagnosis is the most distinctive type and the essence of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis of the four diagnostic methods and has been summarised through prolonged medical practice. The objectified theory of pulse diagnosis combines the theory of modern medicine with traditional pulse theory (Sang 2014). With the progress on the concept and the content of pulse diagnosis, several studies have focussed on pulse diagnosis since the 1950s (Matos et al. 2021). Most of these used advanced precision instruments, detection tools, and indicators to investigate TCM pulse syndrome.