How does Chinese medicine feel the pulse?

Both Chinese medicine and western medicine take the pulse. The position of the pulse is also the most obvious part of the patient's wrist radial artery pulsation, and the touch of the index finger, middle finger and ring finger is also used to understand the pulse of the patient's flexor artery. In traditional Chinese medicine, it often takes a long time to understand not only the general changes of pulse strength, pulse frequency and rhythm, but also the changes of blood vessel filling degree, blood flow patency and pulse fluctuation, so as to understand the condition and serve as an important basis for diagnosing diseases.

Why can Chinese medicine diagnose diseases by taking the pulse?

The periodic fluctuation of pulse is caused by the sudden increase and decrease of pressure in arterial tube under the influence of cardiac contraction and relaxation. Therefore, we can understand the changes of cardiovascular system through the changes of pulse beat. For example, every time the heart beats 1 time, the flexor artery also beats 1 time; Fast heartbeat, fast pulse; Strong cardiac contractility and strong pulse; When the heart is sick, the arrhythmia, the heart stops beating and the pulse is irregular accordingly.

Traditional Chinese medicine has studied pulse diagnosis for thousands of years, accumulated rich experience in long-term medical practice, summed up the theory of "pulse science", summarized the most common pulse conditions into 28 kinds, and clearly explained what kind of pulse conditions and internal changes. The fork divides the radial artery on the wrist into three sections with the styloid process scraped by the bone as the boundary, and each section L represents L internal organs. From the change of this pulse condition, we can understand the pathological changes of internal organs. The problem of "pulse-taking" has attracted the attention of Chinese and western medical personnel and scholars in other disciplines, and has been deeply studied by using precision instruments such as electronic calculators.

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