floating and soggy 73, 125, 129 skipping 37,39, 56,67

floating and surging 73, 125, 128 slippery pulse 3 1, 34, 35, 39-41, 52,
floating and tight 68, 73, 77, 109, 116, 53, 64, 65, 68-70, 75, 94, 111
125 slow pulse 4,29-31, 39, 51, 57, 64, 68,
floating and vacuous 73 69, 71, 75, 79, 80,92, 111, 116, 141
floating with strength 68 slow, forceful 68
floating without strength 68 slow, forceless 68
frenzied sesame seed 136 slow, slippery 68
hidden 28, 29, 39, 4.1, 56, 67, 71, 74, slow, weak 68
108,124 soft 10, 26, 27, 55, 69, 70, 72, 79, 117,
images 5, 8, 10-12, 16, 19, 21, 22, 26, 147
27,31, 32,34,36,38-43, 45, 49-51, 58, soggy 10,27, 39, 40, 55, 66, 72, 74,
63,64,67,73, 75, 78, 83, 89, 110, 113, 104, 147
114, 135,139-142, 147, 148 spinning bean 136
images, diseased 19 stirring 34, 39, 58, 67, 76, 140
images, normal 19 surging 23, 24, 39, 55, 65, 70, 73, 98,
interpreting the v, 49, 58, 89 111, 124, 141
large 36,69, 129 tight32,51, 54,65,68,71,77, 79,
leaking roof 135 100, 112, 116
long 3 1-33, 65, 76 tight, deep 71
obstacles to mastering the 8 true visceral 20
of pregnancy 65, 111 untying rope 135
opposite gate 60 upturned knife 136
pecking 135 - - -- - - - -vacuous 25, 26, 31, 39, 55, 65, 69, 74, - -

racing 30, 31, 39, 58, 67, 76, 90, 124 79, 81, 96, 117
rapid 30, 31, 34, 39, 50-52, 58, 61, 64, weak 28, 39, 56, 66,68, 72, 74, 75,
68-70, 75, 79-81, 93, 110, 111, 116, 79-81, 105, 112
141, 144 waving fish 135
rapid, forceless 68 pulse images, combined 63, 67,73, 89
rapid irregularly interrupted 37, 67, 77 pulse images, diseased & normal
rapid, large, forceless 69 pulse images, underlying mechanisms of
regularly interrupted 37, 67, 72, 78 the 50
relaxed 2, 30, 31,39, 54, 55, 60, 66, 71, Pulse Classic 16, 17, 19, 67, 78, 137,
80, 143 148, 149, 151
relaxed, deep 71 push and search 45
relaxed, fine, and slow 71
relaxed, floating 71
replete 3 1, 58,65, 69, 77, 79, 80, 97
scallion-stalk 23, 25-27, 39,41, 55, 66, qi and blood dual vacuity 7 1, 110-112
69,73, 102, 112 qi and blood pain 102
scattered 26, 27, 39, 55, 66, 77, 106, qi and blood stasis and stagnation 71
123 qi and blood vacuity 52, 55, 56,69, 70,
seasonal variation in 58, 61 76,111
seething cauldron 136 qi chaos 78
short 33, 34, 39, 54, 65, 76 qi counterflow 65, 76, 84, 117
simu!tzneous galpaticn cf 45 qi desei"Lioii75
qi desertion and essence consumption 76
qi disease 73, 75
qi division has a blockage 67
qi pain 69, 87
qi stagnation 4, 53, 56, 57,61,64-66, 70,
72,75,84, 109, 111, 117, 143, 146
qi vacuity and debility patterns 65
radial artery 13, 60
rheum, branch 69
rheum elusive mass 69,77
rheum, overflowing 106
rheum, suspended 69
root 2,20,21, 26, 50, 53, 55, 121, 129,
132, 139, 144, 146, 147
running piglet 74, 100
sadness 115
sea of marrow emptiness and vacuity 72
seven affects 71, 72, 115, 125, 144
sex 43, 58, 59
shun, lower abdominal cold 100
Shang Hun Lun 19, 151
shao yin blood vacuity 101
Si Yan Ju Yao 16
Simple Questions 24,40,43
sinew atony 72
sinew contraction, aching & pain 104
sinews, blood not constructing the 104
six environmental excesses 114
skinny people 60
sleep, loss of 79, 8 1, 94, 98, 101, 104,
105, 107
small intestine 16, 87, 137, 138
speak, disinclination to 79-81
speech, delirious 69
spermatorrhea 7 1,96
spirit 20, 62, 79, 81, 92, 115, 129, 145,
146
spirit, devitalized 92
spirit, fatigued 8 1
spleen 2,4, 16-18, 52-55, 65, 70-72, 85,
87, 88, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 101, 104,
105, 107, 110, 115, 120, 121, 126-128,
133, 138, 140, 143-147, 150
spleen vacuity 2, 53, 55, 71, 96,99, 107,
110, 143, 145-147
spleen yang vacuity 4
spleen/stomach vacuity weakness 7 1, 104
stagnant food 52
stiff neck 79
stomach 16-18, 20, 66, 69-72, 76, 87, 88,
90-93, 95, 98, 100-105, 107, 108, 115,
120, 121, 126, 128, 130, 138, 143-147,
150
stomach and intestines, heat in the 69
stomach qi 20, 70, 72, 76, 145
stomach reflux 70, 128
stomachache 91,97
stools, bloody 69, 93
stools, dry 81, 93, 95, 98
stools, loose 2, 4, 79-8 1, 96, 104, 105,
146
strangury patterns 70, 7 1
strangury, turbid 90, 93, 98
strength, lack of 4, 79, 8 1, 117
styloid process 13, 14, 60, 121
Su Wen 24,25,43
sweating, no 45, 79
sweating, slight 80
sweating, spontaneous 7 1, 72, 74, 79, 8 1,
104,128, 145
sweats, night 50, 79, 8 1, 103, 104
sweats, yin vacuity thief (i.e., night) 72
taxation detriment of the seven affects 71
TCM methodology 4
tenesmus 79
The Lakeside Master's Study of the Pulse
89, 113
thirst 70, 79-81, 94, 127
thirst, no 80, 81
thirst, wasting 70
thirst with a desire for hot drinks 80
throat, dry mouth and 8 1
throat, sore 45, 50, 61, 93, 97,98
tinnitus 50, 96, 101, 105
torpid intake 91,93,98, 101, 104, 105
torticollis 17, 71
tongue, examination of the 3
tongue, light red 50, 148
tongue, pale 2,4, 79-8 1, 117
tongue, red tip 50, 148
tongue, sores on the mouth & 93
tongue, stiff 70, 94, 97
triple burner 16, 137, 138
tui shun 70
upper back and shoulder tightness and
pain 5 1
upward and outwardly counterflowing
yang qi 50
urine, yellow 80
urinary frequency & turbidity 9 1
urinary incontinence 79,92
urination, clear, long 50, 79,96
urination, inhibited 79
urination, short, reddish yellow 80, 81
uterine bleeding 73, 99, 102
vacuity chill of the lower origin 104
vacuity cold 5 1, 57, 68, 73, 75, 87, 104,
126,139, 143
vacuity detriment 68-70,76, 107, 145
vacuity detriment of yang qi floating to
the outside 68
vacuous yang floating to the outside 69
vaginal discharge 97, 110, 111, 146
vaginal discharge, excessive 97, 146
viscera and bowels, vacuity detriment of
the 70
vision, blurred 8 1
voice, husky 79
vomiting and diarrhea, acute 71
vomiting of blood 69, 102
vomiting of chilly phlegm, spleen cold 71
vomiting, mania 69
warmth, lack of 2
wasting thirst 70
wind bi 71
wind cold external invasion 2
wind, dislike of 80
wind heat lodged in the lower burner 90
wind stroke 71, 116, 127
wind vacuity 73
Wiseman, Nigel 13, 20,43, 52, 150
worry 7,53, 115, 123, 143-145
wrong intellectual perspective 9
Wu Qian 1 19,149
yang, collapse of 65
yang ming, intense heat in the 70, 86
yang minute and yin weak 76
yang qi debility and decay 67
yang toxins 69
yang vacuity and yin exuberance 68
Yi Jing 58
Yi Zhong Bi Du 19
Yi Zong Jin J i m 34,36, 113, 137, 1149
yin & yang on the verge of separating 106
yin and yang dual vacuity 71,72
yin collapse 70, 84, 117
yin, collapse of, and desertion of blood 73
yin, consumption of 58
yin fire 70, 98, 140-145, 148
yin vacuity 50, 55,64, 66, 69, 70,72, 73,
76,81,84,87,88,93, 105, 107, 112,
117, 126, 139-141, 144, 146, 147
yin vacuity, internal heat 69
Zhang Wei-yaq 24,25, 138, 139
Zhang Zhong-jing 19, 150, 151
Zhong Yi Mai Xue Ru Men 1 13, 149, 151
Zhong Zang-jing 63, 142
Zhu Dan-xi 38, 67,68, 148, 150
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