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PULSE READING - GENERAL
Pre-requisite conditions
(also look at tongue and eyes) 1st bone of wrist, 1/2" between fingers
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Be calm, not too much drinking, eating strong food or drink, or fasting.
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Early morning (patient not yet distrubed by daytime life).
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Wrist, not too far from the heart, not too near to the heart.
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Six fingers: flexible, warm, smooth, sensitive, stiff and swelling not
good.
Constitutional pulse - male can have female, female can have male.
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Male - thick and bulky,
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Female - thin and fast - donít confuse with Lung which may be thicker -
Tipa also thin and fast, donít mistake.
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Best time at sunrise, hot potential and cold potential stable - in balance.
Patients breathing is normal, awakening from sleep, good rest. Person
has not started daily activities, mind is at rest.
Position - 1st line of wrist, half thumb length, bone protrudes, start
pressing - index, middle and ring fingers. Not too close, not too
far apart. Pressure - index touches, middle presses, ring finger
goes deeper. Muscle gets thicker as it goes along, have to press
harder. Physician's hand should be not too hot, not too cold,
finger tips should be smooth, no cracks. Important for physician
to preserve his fingers, as much as possible. Nails should be well-cut.
Finger tip more sensitive than fat of finger. For a specific organ,
such as the Heart, one can only use the 'Heart' finger. Patient's
left hand, physician's right. Female patient, right hand, physician's left.
Female - heart is Left side of main artery. Male - heart is Right
side of main artery. Male energy is wisdom 'action' energy
(bodhisattva) - on left side. Female energy is wisdom "intellect-mind'
energy (shunyata) on right. Male left and female right are culmination
of wisdom and intellect - one needs the energy of the other, wisdom energy
needs knowledge of voidness, voidness without bodhichitta means there is
no service to humanity.
Male natural pulse is thick and hard, female natural pulse - thin, taut
and fast. Neuter, slow, gentle smooth. If male has female puse
- long liife, if female has male pulse, thick and hard, then she will have
a lot of male children and be prosperous. Neuter pulse, then
long life, good health, prosperous. Healthy pulse - to one breath
of healthy physician, should beat 15/20 times, not too hard, not too slow.
Very rythmic, over 15 sets, healthy. If pulse differs much
more or less, disease is present. 42 different natures, according
to ailments: hidden fever, distant fever, different humoural influences.
With an organ such as the Heart, one can only use ëHeartí finger.
Patients left hand, phys.ís right.
Female - heart is Left side of main artery,
Male - heart is Right side of main artery.
Female patient, right hand.
Male energy is wisdom ëactioní energy (bodhisattva) - on left side.
Female energy is wisdom ëintellect-mindí energy (shunyata) on
right.
Male left and female right are culmination of wisdom and intellect
- one needs the energy of the other: wisdom energy needs knowledge of voidness,
voidness withough bodhichitta means there is no service to humanity.
Jose: low b.p., 6-7 beats, different from side to side, operation or
accident. Palpitations - lack of sleep. hold both hands, difference
in pulse.
Theresa: Badkhen pulse, deep, hardly felt,thick, slow. Headache,
kidney problem with Tipa. oedemea urine. Difficult birth -
weak kidneys.
Patrice: Thin and fast - Tipa, close to skin. Liver and gall
bladder - TIPA nature. Short temper - Tipa.
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