choppy pulse [Se Mai]

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Ok -- I didn't get a quorum on the choppy pulse description, so here are a few quotes on the issue from the past and present. The experiment is an attempt to show the necessity of finding out what choppy pulse description is being referred to because they vary and may have differing concomitants and etiology.

Which of these features do you use to describe a choppy pulse?

Will

 

Jin Wei: "this is a pulse that is felt fine, slow, short, scattered, hesitant, and unsmooth, like scraping bamboo with a knife."

 

Maccioccia: "This pulse feels rough under the finger: instead of a smooth pulse wave, it feels as though it had a jagged edge to it. Choppy also indicates a pulse that changes rapidly both in rate and quality"

(Bob, this is probably where Al got his descriptions)

 

Li Shizhen “A pulse which feels thin, minute and short and has an uneven flow, beating three and five times with irregular rhythm, is called choppy.....It feels like a knife scraping bamboo, rough and jagged. It is easily scattered like rain falling onto the sand. It also moves very slowly and at irregular depths, like an ill silkworm eating a leaf.â€

 

Wang Shuhe: “fine and slow pulse, coming and going with difficulty and scattered or with an interruptionâ€

Kaptchuk:“irregular in rhythm. In this case it is called the three and five not adjusted sometimes three beats per breath and sometimes five beats per breathâ€

 

Wu Shuiwan: "The movement of this pulse is felt as rough and choppy. It is not fluent. It is slow and thin. The wave of this pulse is short."

Deng Tietao: “it should feel slow and uneven, fine, small,shortâ€

 

 

CAM: " A hesitant pulse feels rough and uneven......" stagnations "produce a hesitant and forceful pulse ........" insufficiency

"creates a hesitant and weak pulse"