different understanding of Chinese and English about TCM

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Recently, I have seen many discussion about girdling pulse and many comments about the different understanding of TCM. Here I want to express what I was thinking about them. For Girdling Pulse, what I understand is a kind of pulse phenomenon. My teacher told me that there are four kinds of diagnostics in Ancient China, Wang(Íû£©, Wen£¨ÎÅ£©, Wen£¨ÎÊ£©, Qie£¨ÇУ©. And Qie is to Qie the patient's pulse, girdling pulse is one kind of many pulse phenomena. I could not agree the Wiseman dictionary said that there are 8 pulse in China (maybe it just said the main kinds of them, I don't know because I haven't see it) since there are many kinds of pulse in Ancient China at least more than 8. TCM have Xian Mai(ÏÒÂö£©, Dai Mai(´úÂö£©, Shuo Mai(ÊýÂö£©. The pulse of Xian Mai like you are pressing on string, most of this kind of pulse is liver disease, some of it can appear in throe and phlegm. The pulse of Dai Mai is slow, sometimes stop and repulse after a long time, it means the enervation of viscera. Shuo Mai means the rapid pulse, it usually appears Heat. These are the main introduction of them. I don't know whether you can understand my expression or not. I totally agree that there should have some Chinese Doctor mastery of TCM and mastery of English so that he could take our Traditional to foreign countries and let the world wide people know China. Many TCM books in China are all expressed by ancient Chinese words, it is difficult for Chinese people to understand and it have no doubt about the difficulty to the foreign people. Nevertheless, for Chinese people, it maybe easy to understand ancient Chinese but it would be very difficult for learning English. We don't know how to express us well in English. The HOT thing glimmering in front of our eyes is the communication. Chinese want to know what the real world market like. And I think the world want to know China too. Maria Zhang