What does pulse string mean

The stringy pulse is a type of pulse condition, a pulse image diagnosed in traditional Chinese medicine. It uses some symptoms of the blood to understand whether there are some disease problems. For example, if a person is irritable and has a bad temper, then pathologically it may indicate that the patient has liver disease or some malaria symptoms. Therefore, after understanding these causes, some traditional Chinese medicine treatment and conditioning methods can be appropriately adopted.

1. Basic Definition

String pulse is a type of pulse used in TCM diagnosis. When pressed, the pulse feels like a harp string, straight and long, and feels firm under the fingers. String pulse means that the pulse felt by the fingers is like pressing a straightened string at both ends, or plucking a taut string, and has a certain firmness and rapidity. String pulse can be divided into physiological and pathological ones. Physiologically, it often indicates that the person is more irritable and has a bad temper. Another thing to note is that in spring, the pulse of a normal person is also more stringy. Pathologically, it often indicates that the patient has pain, liver disease, phlegm or malaria.

2. Longdan Xiegan Decoction

[Composition]: Gentiana (fried with wine) 6g, Scutellaria (fried) 9g, Gardenia (fried with wine) 9g, Alisma (fried) 12g, Akebia (fried) 9g, Plantago (fried) 9g, Angelica (washed with wine) 3g, Rehmannia (fried with wine) 9g, Bupleurum (fried) 6g, Licorice (fried) 6g.

【Function】: Relieve the excess fire in the liver and gallbladder, and clear the damp heat in the lower part of the body.

[Indications]: Liver and gallbladder fire disturbance, symptoms include headache, red eyes, flank pain, bitter taste in the mouth, deafness, and ear swelling; or damp heat downward movement, symptoms include swelling and itching of the genitals, muscle atrophy, genital sweating, turbid urine, and damp heat downward movement in women. Emotional changes (irritability, madness, depression), jaundice.

[Notes from Chinese Medicine Prodigal Son]: When using this prescription, you should remove Akebia, especially Guanmutong, because Akebia has certain nephrotoxicity. You can use Tongcao instead. The medicines in the prescription do not have to be complete and should be added or subtracted according to the specific situation. This recipe also includes Chinese patent medicine.

3. Xiao Chaihu Decoction

[Composition]: 24 grams of Bupleurum; 9 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis; 9 grams of Ginseng; 6 grams of roasted Licorice; 9 grams of Pinellia; 9 grams of Ginger; 4 dates.

【Indications】: Shaoyang disease. The evil is half superficial and half interior, with symptoms including alternating chills and fever, fullness and pain in the chest and flanks, silence and loss of appetite, irritability and nausea, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, dizziness, thin white tongue coating, and stringy pulse; in women with typhoid fever, heat enters the blood chamber. The menstruation stops, and there are occasional attacks of chills and fever; or there are internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases such as malaria, jaundice, etc., and the above Shaoyang disease symptoms are present.

[Additions and subtractions]: For vomiting and retching, add ginger and dried tangerine peel; for restlessness but not vomiting, remove pinellia and ginseng and add trichosanthes; for thirst, remove pinellia and add pollen; if not thirsty but with slight fever, remove ginseng and add cinnamon twig, cover and induce slight sweating; for cough, remove ginseng, jujube and ginger and add schisandra chinensis and dried ginger; for restlessness due to deficiency, add bamboo leaves and japonica rice; for dry teeth without fluid, add gypsum; for excessive phlegm, add trichosanthes and fritillaria; for abdominal pain, remove scutellaria baicalensis and add peony root; for hardness and distension under the ribs, remove jujube and add oyster; for pain under the heart, add green peel and peony root; for palpitations under the heart and difficulty urinating, remove scutellaria baicalensis and add poria; for headache according to this meridian, add chuanxiong; for jaundice, add capillaris.