Pulse Diagnosis Made Easier

摘要

Pulse diagnosis is often considered unique to Chinese medicine, and both highly esoteric and subjective. Most traditional medical systems utilized pulse diagnosis, however, and made the same interpretations, indicating there must be a practical and underlying logic to it.The Nei Jing Su Wen also stated it was malpractice to not utilize pulse diagnosis, so it must somehow be very germane to getting real results and avoiding harm. Modern medical research has turned a substantial amount of its focus in the last two decadesto the role of circulation in the creation of pathology. Disruptions to circulation occur locally, but are maintained by systemic perturbations. Palpation of a small peripheral artery turns out to be the most rapid and accessible method of assessing those perturbations, ensuring we have not aggravated them, and identifying when we have corrected them.