The pulse is smooth and flowing, like beads rolling on a plate; this is a common understanding of the slippery pulse (hua mai). It can be diagnosed as phlegm, heat, pregnancy, food accumulation, or qi stagnation. This is correct, but it is only the first type of slippery pulse; there is another type that indicates … Read more
To treat illness, one must seek its root. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), treatment requires the four examinations based on symptoms, analyzing the pathogenesis through these examinations, determining the syndrome type, establishing treatment principles based on the syndrome, and prescribing accordingly. Each step is interconnected and essential. The diagnostician employs the four examinations: observation (望), … Read more
The slippery pulse (hua mai) has two manifestations: boiling (ding fei) and pearl on a plate (pan zhu). The boiling pulse indicates a heat syndrome, while the pearl pulse indicates abundant body fluids. Dry heat injures body fluids, similar to water boiling in a pot over fire, hence the pulse is slippery; when body fluids … Read more
Slippery pulse indicates phlegm disease, governs food stagnation, inch position indicates vomiting, and cubit position indicates blood and pus in stool.【Note】Slippery pulse is a yang pulse, with excess yang indicating phlegm, hence it governs phlegm diseases.The right guan position corresponds to the stomach, thus it governs phlegm from food.The left guan position corresponds to the … Read more