Analysis of Floating Pulse and Its Variants
According to the “Pulse Classic”: “A floating and large pulse indicates a heavy head and nasal congestion due to wind. A floating and slow pulse suggests numbness of the skin, with wind-cold invading the muscles. A floating and slippery pulse indicates food retention. A short floating pulse suggests lung injury, with minimal qi, leading to death within a year; it should be treated with cough remedies. A floating and surging pulse indicates damage from cold. A floating, slippery, and rapid pulse suggests indigestion and spleen dysfunction. A floating and fine slippery pulse indicates damage from fluids. A long and surging floating pulse suggests wind dizziness and epilepsy. A floating, slippery, and rapid pulse indicates chronic diseases that are difficult to heal.”
From the “Thousand Gold Prescriptions”: “A floating and slippery pulse at the cun position indicates headache. A floating and large pulse that feels rough upon pressure indicates food stagnation. A scattered floating pulse at the guan position suggests accumulated heat in the chest, leading to vomiting and forgetfulness. A floating and large pulse at the chi position indicates excess yang in the lower jiao.” The “Cui’s Four-Character Essentials” states: “A floating pulse indicates wind-heat, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-dampness, a floating and tight pulse indicates wind-cold, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-dampness, a floating and weak pulse indicates damage from summer heat, a floating and thin pulse indicates blood loss, a floating and surging pulse indicates empty fire, a floating and fine pulse indicates extreme fatigue, a floating and moist pulse indicates yin deficiency, a floating and wiry pulse indicates phlegm and fluids, a floating and slippery pulse indicates phlegm-heat, and a floating and scattered pulse indicates severe deficiency.”
According to the “Three Causes Prescriptions”: “A floating and large pulse indicates nasal congestion, a floating and slow pulse indicates numbness, a floating and long pulse indicates wind dizziness and urinary issues, a floating and slippery pulse indicates food retention, a floating and large but rough pulse indicates food stagnation, a floating and short pulse indicates lung injury and qi deficiency, a floating and slippery pulse indicates fluids or stabbing pain. A floating and fine but slippery pulse indicates damage from fluids, a floating and slippery but rapid pulse indicates lily disease, a floating and scattered pulse indicates constipation and urinary issues, a floating and tight pulse indicates dysuria or cancer.”
From the “Surgical Essentials”: “A floating and large pulse indicates heart issues, a floating and short pulse indicates lung issues, a floating and rapid pulse indicates heat. If a floating and rapid pulse does not indicate heat but rather aversion to cold, it suggests the presence of sores or pox.”
According to the “Binh Lake Pulse Studies”: “A floating and slow pulse indicates exterior wind, a floating and rapid pulse indicates heat, and a floating and tight pulse indicates cold. A strong floating pulse suggests wind-heat, while a weak floating pulse indicates blood deficiency.”
From the “Diagnostic Essentials”: “A strong pulse indicates excess, while a weak pulse indicates deficiency. A floating and tight pulse indicates wind-cold, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-stroke, a floating and rapid pulse indicates wind-heat, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-dampness, a floating and thin pulse indicates blood loss, a floating and short pulse indicates qi deficiency, a floating and surging pulse indicates empty heat, a floating and weak pulse indicates summer heat fatigue, a floating and rough pulse indicates blood injury, a floating and moist pulse indicates qi failure.”
According to the “Medical Entry”: “A strong floating pulse indicates wind, while a weak floating pulse indicates deficiency. A floating and rapid pulse indicates mild wind-heat, a floating and slow pulse indicates body itchiness with no sweat, a floating and tight slippery pulse indicates lily disease, a floating and large pulse indicates chronic rashes, a floating and slippery pulse indicates phlegm and pain like a needle.”
From the “Essential Readings of Medical Classics”: “A strong pulse indicates wind, a weak pulse indicates blood deficiency, a floating and slow pulse indicates cold, a floating and rapid pulse indicates wind-heat, a floating and tight pulse indicates wind-cold, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-dampness, a floating and weak pulse indicates summer heat damage, a floating and thin pulse indicates blood loss, a floating and surging pulse indicates empty fire, a floating and fine pulse indicates extreme fatigue, a floating and moist pulse indicates yin deficiency, a floating and scattered pulse indicates severe deficiency, a floating and wiry pulse indicates phlegm and fluids, a floating and slippery pulse indicates phlegm-heat.”
According to the “Ancient and Modern Medical Systems”: “A floating and strong pulse indicates evil, a floating and weak pulse indicates little qi, a floating and strong pulse indicates excess, a floating and weak pulse indicates deficiency. A floating pulse that is strong upon pressure indicates excess evil, while a floating pulse that is weak indicates deficiency. A floating pulse that is large and hard indicates a serious condition, as described in the Inner Canon, indicating a lack of true yin and a sign of great danger.”
From the “Pulse Verification”: “A floating and surging pulse indicates wind-fire, a floating and rapid pulse indicates wind-fire, a floating and wiry pulse indicates wind-phlegm, a floating and slippery pulse indicates wind-phlegm and wind-heat, a floating and long pulse indicates wind-heat and wind-rash.”
According to the “Pulse Differentiation Compilation”: “A weak pulse indicates deficiency, a strong pulse indicates excess, a floating and tight pulse indicates wind-cold, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-dampness, a floating and rapid pulse indicates wind-heat, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-deficiency, a floating and weak pulse indicates summer heat damage, a floating and thin pulse indicates blood loss, a floating and surging pulse indicates empty heat, a floating and fine pulse indicates qi deficiency, a floating and wiry pulse indicates phlegm and fluids, a floating and slippery pulse indicates phlegm-heat, and a floating and rapid pulse indicates signs of sores and ulcers.”
From the “Pulse Enlightenment Annotations”: “A floating and tight pulse indicates wind-cold, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-dampness, a floating and rapid pulse indicates wind-heat, a floating and surging pulse indicates wind-fire, a floating and rough pulse indicates blood injury, a floating and thin pulse indicates qi deficiency.”
According to the “Three-Finger Zen”: “A floating and tight pulse indicates cold damage, a floating and weak pulse indicates summer heat damage, a floating and rapid pulse indicates wind damage, a floating and slow pulse indicates damp damage.”
From the “Pulse Studies Explained”: “A floating and slow pulse indicates cold, a floating and surging pulse indicates heat, a floating and slow pulse indicates wind-stroke and wind-dampness, a floating and moist pulse indicates summer heat damage, a floating and slippery pulse indicates wind-phlegm, a floating and fine pulse indicates qi deficiency, a floating and rough pulse indicates blood deficiency, and a floating and scattered pulse indicates extreme deficiency.”
The floating and moist pulse indicates a combination of yin deficiency and qi failure, as well as damage from summer heat. The floating pulse is characterized by being easily felt with light pressure, while the moist pulse is extremely soft and fine, like silk floating on water. The combination of floating and moist pulses indicates a shallow pulse position, easily felt with light pressure, but weak upon deeper pressure. Therefore, the “Binh Lake Pulse Studies” states that a soft and fine pulse indicates moisture. Moisture indicates blood loss and yin deficiency, with the marrow and essence already depleted. Depending on the location of the floating and moist pulse, the associated diseases vary. If found at the cun position, it indicates yang qi deficiency; if at the guan position, it often indicates invasion by dampness; if at the chi position, it indicates yin deficiency and blood injury. Therefore, Li Shizhen stated: “A moist pulse at the cun position indicates weak yang and excessive sweating… A moist pulse at the chi position indicates blood deficiency and severe cold.” Li Zhongzi also stated: “A moist pulse at the right guan indicates spleen deficiency and damp invasion, while a moist pulse at the left chi indicates blood loss and damage.” The “Pulse Studies Explained” states: “A floating and moist pulse indicates summer heat damage.” This is due to the external invasion of summer heat and dampness, causing the body to resist the summer heat, leading to a floating pulse. Additionally, the moist pulse indicates insufficient qi and yin, and summer heat easily damages fluids and depletes qi, making the floating and moist pulse a common pulse pattern seen in summer heat damage.
Gui Zhi Decoction
Treats wind-cold in the Taiyang stage, where yang is floating and yin is weak. A floating yang indicates spontaneous heat, while a weak yin indicates spontaneous sweating, aversion to cold, and a dry cough.
Gui Zhi (Cinnamon Twig) (remove skin) Shao Yao (Peony) (each 1.5 taels) Gan Cao (Licorice) (1 tael)
Grind into a coarse powder. Each dose is 2 qian, boiled with 1 cup of water, add 3 slices of fresh ginger and 3 jujubes, and simmer until 7 parts remain. Strain and take warm, without regard to time. It is best to use in early spring; from late spring to before summer solstice, add half a tael of Huang Qin (Scutellaria) and after summer solstice, add half a tael of Zhi Mu (Anemarrhena) and 2 taels of Shi Gao (Gypsum). If the patient is usually cold, do not add or reduce anything. Do not take if sweating is absent.
Huang Long Pill
For men and women suffering from summer heat, with fever and thirst, vomiting and nausea, and chronic summer heat toxicity that does not heal.
Huang Lian (Coptis) (remove roots, 32 taels) Good wine (5 sheng) Boil Huang Lian with wine until dry, grind into a fine powder. Use flour and water to make a paste, forming pills the size of wutong seeds. Each dose is 30 pills, swallowed with hot water. It also treats excessive drinking, toxic blood, and diarrhea, taken with warm rice drink before meals, twice a day.
Bu Huan Jin Zheng Qi Powder
Treats summer heat, epidemic diseases, headache, fever, back stiffness; five labor and seven injuries, mountain miasma, qi stagnation, cough with phlegm, shortness of breath; or cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, and should be taken for red and white diarrhea.
浓朴 (remove skin, ginger juice prepared) Huo Xiang (remove branches and soil) Gan Cao ( ) Ban Xia (boiled) Cang Zhu (soaked in rice wash) Chen Pi (each equal parts, ground into powder)
Each dose is 3 qian, boiled with 1.5 cups of water, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, simmer until 8 parts remain, strain, and take warm before meals. Avoid raw, cold, oily, and toxic foods. If people from other regions are not accustomed to the local climate, they should take this. Regular use can dispel miasma, harmonize the spleen and stomach, and improve digestion.
Chuan Xiong Tea Tiao Powder
Treats men and women with various wind attacks, headache, nasal congestion, and heavy voice; wind-cold with fever, body aches, and phlegm accumulation; women with blood wind attacking, pain in the temples, and all wind-related conditions.
薄荷叶 (Mint leaves, unburned, 8 taels) Chuan Xiong (Ligusticum) Jing Jie (remove stems, each 4 taels) Xiang Fu (fried, 8 taels, separate from the original recipe)
Grind into a fine powder. Each dose is 2 qian, taken after meals, mixed with tea. Regular use clears the head.
Shen Shi Tang
Treats cold dampness injuries, heavy body, cold waist, like sitting in water, urination may be either difficult or frequent, diarrhea may be loose or watery. This is due to sitting or lying in damp places or from sweating in wet clothes, leading to prolonged illness. Symptoms include heavy pain in the lower back, pain in the legs, swelling or no swelling, and lack of thirst.
Cang Zhu (Atractylodes) Bai Zhu (White Atractylodes) Gan Cao (roasted, each 1 tael) Fu Ling (remove skin) Gan Jiang (each 2 taels) Ju Hong (Dried Tangerine Peel) Ding Xiang (Clove) (each 1 tael)
Grind into a fine powder. Each dose is 4 qian, boiled with 1.5 cups of water, add 1 jujube and 3 slices of ginger, simmer until 7 parts remain, take warm before meals.
Ice Huang Powder
Treats summer heat, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, dry mouth, and thirst, cold back, and facial pallor.
赤茯苓 (remove skin) 甘草 (raw, each 4 taels) 寒食面 (cold food flour) 生姜 (chopped, mixed with flour, dried in the sun, each 1 jin)
Grind into a fine powder. Each dose is 2 qian, mixed with fresh or cold boiled water, taken at any time.
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