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Your assumption is only partly true. Pulses do reflect the status of qi through amplitude and force. However, they also reflect other essential substances and the processes of life that arrive in the form of pathogens and traumas. The pulses reflect blood volume in the width and the vacuation ;-) of yin by hardness of the vessels. They reflect the status of the pump, the tubes, the fluid in the tubes, and the ground substance in which those tubes lay.

I am making the assumption that the pulse reflects the state of qi.

 

Elizabeth Shu has written very eloquently on the methods of transmission of Chinese medicine. She cites standardized, secret and personal forms of transmission. The schools (here and China) are mostly involved in standardized methods of transmission that are necessarily limited by such processes. Both Jim and I have had the privilege and curse of exposure to secret and personal forms of transmission. The secret form may be a clandestine withholding of technical information or the secret may be an insight that is revealed by association with an individual who has such a skill. Personal forms of transmission are those that are garnered in the following of a senior practitioner - or maybe it is a dialogue regarding the relevance of a classical passage to a particular clinical finding.

 

In my opinion, what one may access from pulse diagnosis through information available in standardized settings is small compared to what one might receive under tutelage of those with the capacity to transmit personal and/or secret knowledge.

Will

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, WMorris116@A... wrote:

 

>

> Your assumption is only partly true. Pulses do reflect the

status of qi

> through amplitude and force. However, they also reflect other

essential

> substances and the processes of life that arrive in the form of

pathogens and

> traumas.

 

Will

 

I never said otherwise. I don't think we are on the same page

here, so I'll pass on this one.