"golden Chamber" Pulse Study

Pulse diagnosis is one of the most outstanding characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It originated from the examinations of channels and collaterals and mainly applied to deciding the locations of diseases. It has taken several centuries for pulse diagnosis to perfect its methods and unify the names and shapes. Along with this process pulse diagnosis has been applied to deciding the nature of syndromes.Pulse diagnosis is an essential part of "Jin Kui Yao Lue" , which deals with the apotheosis of the therapeutics of miscellaneous internal diseases.It run though the whole process of diagnosis and treatment and it is related to every aspect of theories, methods, formulas and herds. Zhang Zhongjing not only employed the pulse diagnosis in explanation the onset and progress of an illness, differentiation of syndromes, selection of remedies and estimation of prognosis, but also establish pulse, possible pulse, altered pulses and deadly pulse of some diseases of internal medicine, surgery and gynaecology.Firstly , the paper describes the historical origin of Zhongjing sphymology, and approaches its distinguishing features from different angles , summing up the guiding principle, and particularly discussing how Zhongjing applied the technique of pulse-feeling when he diagnosis and treated the miscellaneous internal diseases.Secondly, the paper makes an inquiry into how to obtain the pathogenesis based on pulse-feeling in the diagnosis and treatment of miscellaneous. There are four parts obtaining pathogenesis based on the pulse conditions in "Jin Kui Yao Lue" : enumerating the alterations of the pulse conditions to obtain normal pathogenesis; comparing the alterations of the pulse condition to obtain abnormal pathogenesis ; distinguishing the pulse conditions to varing degrees to obtain pathogenesis; prognosising the pulse conditions to obtain pathogenesis.The important part of this paper is that it has abstracted essential pulse, possible pulse, abnormal pulses and deadly pulses in convulsive disease, malaria, pectoral pain with stuffiness, edema and jaundice describes in "Jin Kui Yao Lue" , and listed the viewpoints that are related to this aspect of the later periods. It illustrates that "Jin Kui Yao Lue" has produced a programmatic...