Herbs and Notes: MPD: Styloid Pulses – Part 1 Right distal side of styloid apex- pulse: Upper Respiratory Right proximal side of styloid apex- pulse: Stomach Right styloid apex pulse: inflammation throat or thyroid disease Post nasal drip: Cun has…...
Scattered pulse: (also called dispersed pulse; dead fish pulse= most severe degree) – indicates coronary artery disease: Strategy: move blood through the heart (vaso-dialate, thin the blood) Herbs: Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang or Stress 1 25 Gua Lou Xie…...
Enlarged Heart Pulse: clearly defined pulse in left cun, yet as one pushes down on a physiological left cun pulse and moves the finger back up, the pulse fills up one’s finger pad somewhat strongly indicates enlarged heart/ cardiomyopathy Aortic…...
Scattered/ Dead Fish Pulse (the dead fish is the highest level of scatteredness/ a completely scattered pulse): indicated Inefficient blood flow through the heart, under absence of large vessel pulse, mitral valve pulse, coronary constriction pulse (constricted pulse/ pulse within…...
Feeling the cheeks/nose are cold, but pulse is pounding: exterior wind-cold is still there, even it is not reflected in the pulse – need to add Ge Gen Tang or Gui Zhi Tang 20g to formula, to address external wind-cold;…...
Right cun (starting or progressed, how bad the upper respiratory tract/sinuses is affected), right styloid pulse (throat) and right yang wei (lung) pulses are to be used for the diagnosis of where the main cold symptoms will be Early stage:…...
Right Chi: Deep and pounding UTI: Ba Zheng San 80% (with Da Huang), Herbal ABX or Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin 20% Strong and pounding pulses – Excess Fire/Heat Conditions (Systemic inflammation): use Ba Zheng San 20% Right chi weak…...
Strengthen the heart (ejection fraction): e.g. Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan, Fang Ji Huang Qi Tang Spleen Tonic: Si Jun Zi Tang instead of Ren Shen or Bai Zhu on it’s own “I don’t often use Huang Qi…” Weak heart:…...
The more the degree of scattereness, the higher the degree of blockage (usually the term “dead fish pulse” refers to the most severe type of scattered pulse, where there is no/ almost no pulse palpable Dan Shen, Gua Lou Xie…...