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28 Pulse Qualities

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Acupuncture Points

Abnormal Depth	Floating	Obtainable with light pressure	Floating	Clearly felt with light pressing, somewhat weak with heavy pressing	Exterior patterns
			Scallion stalk	Floating and large with an empty center, like a scallion stalk	Blood loss, yin damage
			Soggy	Floating, fine, and soft	Vacuity, damp
			Scattered	Floating, scattered without root, disappears with pressing	Scattering of original qi, imminent expiry of viscera and bowel qi
			Drumskin	Floating under the finger, hollow center and hard outside	Essence blood vacuity cold
	Deep	Begin to obtain with heavy pressing	Deep	Not clear with light pressing, clear with heavy pressing	Interior patter, depression pattern, water swelling
			Hidden	Clear with heavy pressing, finally obtained when the bone is found	Blocked evil, reverting pattern, extreme pain, yang debility
			Confined	Replete, large, string-like and long with heavy pressing	Internal exuberance of cold accumulation, mounting, accumulations and conglomerations
Abnormal Rate	Rapid	Pulse arrives rapidly	Rapid	90 BPM or more	Heat pattern
			Racing	120 BPM or more	Extreme heat patterns, yin exhaustion floating yang
			Stirred	Pulse jumps like a bean, slippery, rapid, and with force.	Pain pattern, palpitation pattern
			Slippery	Arrives smoothly, the fingers feel roundness and slipperiness	Phlegm food accumulation, repletion heat
	Slow	Pulse arrives slowly	Slow	60 BPM or fewer	Cold pattern
			Moderate	60 BPM	Spleen vacuity, damp patterns
			Rough	Arrives roughly, slowly and stagnating, like a light knife scraping bamboo	Essence damage, blood depletion, qi stagnation, blood stasis
Abnormal Force	Vacuous	Pulse arrives without force	Vacuous	Lacks force, empty and vacuous with pressure	Dual vacuity of qi and blood
			Faint	Extremely fine, extremely soft, sometimes present, sometimes not	Slightly critical case of yang qi debility
			Weak	Deep, fine, without force	Insufficient qi and blood