Pulse Diagnosis

Pulse Diagnosis: Series of TCM for Foreign Readers

Code: BK2361

  Various
  1997
  Specialised Chinese medicine - B02
  Chinese Medicine (B1-B4)

Description

Good reference book for both TCM practitioners and TCM students. Features of many pulse conditions are well discussed.(1997) 181pp

Contents

Origin of Pulse Diagnosis and its Position
in TCM Diagnosis 1

- Origin of Pulse Diagnosis in TCM 2

1.Implication of pulse and pulse diagnosis 2
2.Formation of pulse diagnosis 2
3.Accomplishment of the pulse-taking
on Cunkou6
4.Development of pulse diagnosis in
later generations7

- Position of Pulse Diagnosis in the Diagnostic
Methods of TCM

1.Analysis of pathogenesis9
2.Supplementing diagnosis10
3Analyzing prognosis of disease11

- Positions for Pulse-taking and the
Relations Between the Pulse Diagnosis
and the Zang-Fu Organs, Yin-Yang,
Qi and Blood14

- Positions for Pulse-taking14

1.Pulse-taking on Cunkou15

2.General pulse-takings16

- Pulse Diagnosis and Zang Fu Organs, Yin Yang,
Qi and Blood17

1.Pulse diagnosis and Zang Fu organs17

2.Relations between Yin Yang theory
and the pulse diagnosis23

3.Pulse and Qi and Blood27

4.Mechanism of taking pulse at
Cunkou27

- Normal Pulse and its Physiological Variation 29

- Normal Pulse29

1.The features of normal pulse29

2.Components of a normal pulse and the
mechanism of pulse formation32

- Physiological Variation of Normal Pulse36

1.Influence of seasonal changes on the pulse36

2.Influence of ages on the pulse36

3. Influence of sexes on the pulse 36

4.Influence of constitutions on the pulse37

5.Influence of emotional changes on the
pulse38

6.Influence of life style on the pulse39

7.Pulse changes in a day39

- Methods of Pulse-taking and Attentions41

- Methods of Pulse-taking41

1.Adjustment of the spirit and the breathing41

2.Principles of pulse-taking43

3.Taking a pulse in a period not less
than fifty beats44

4.Application of the fingers45

- Essentials for pulse-taking49

- Attentions for Pulse-taking51

1.Removing the influential factors51

2.Comparing and analyzing the different pulses 52

3. Combining pulse-diagnosis with other
diagnostic methods53

- Pulse Patterns and Their Indications

- Classification of the Pulse Patterns

1. Classification of the pulse patterns in accordance with
their characteristics in depth, size, strength, rate and
rhythm 55

- Classjfication in accordance with their
component factors 57

- TheTwenty eight Pulses 59

1.The Superficial Pulse 59

2.The deep Pulse63

3.The Slippery Pulse67

4.The uneven Pulse70

5.The rapid Pulse 74

6.The Slow pulse 77

7.The deplete pulse 80

8.The replete pulse 84

9.The long pulse 87

10.The short pulse 90

11.The Wiry pulse 93

12.The tense pulse 96

13.The thready Pulse 99

14.The full pulse 102

15.The soft Pulse 105

16.The moderate Pulse 108

17.The hollow Pulse 112

8.The tympanic pulse 115

19.The scattered pulse 117

20.The weak Pulse 120

21.The feeble pulse 123

22.The hidden pulse 125

23.The firm pulse 128

24.The tremulous pulse 131

25.The running pulse 133

26.The knotted pulse 136

27.The intermittent Pulse 139

28.The swift pulse 141

- The Special Pulses 143

1.Double vessel Pulses

2.The ectopic pulse and the slantly located pulse 143

3.The moribund pulses 143

4.Absence of pulse 145

5.Pulse in pregnancy 146

6.Pulse in children 146

- Physiopathological Basis of Pulse Diagnosis 149

- Basic Structure and Function of the Heart150

1.Basic structure of the heart150

2.Functions of the heart152

3.Arrhythmia158

4.Conditions essential for maintenance
of heart beats and their clinical significance158

5.Cardiac muscular contractility160

6.Factors influencing the myocardial
contractility161

7.Feature of the coronary performance
and its adjustment163

8.The cardiac ejection process and the
effects of the cardiac valves166

- Basic Structures and Functions of Vessels173

1.The structural features of the artery174

2.Physiological functions of vessels174

3.Volume and resistance of blood flow
and blood pressure175.

Date reviewed

23/12/1996

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