Research on discussion of wiry pulse by ZHANG Zhong-jing / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Wiry pulse is one of the common pulse tracings, which was recorded firstly in Inner Canon of Huangdi. Most of the modern textbooks of diagnostics of TCM consider that it relates with liver-gallbladder diseases, ache and phlegm-fluid retention,etc. However, there was not record of stringy pulse relating with liver-gallbladder diseases in Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Diseases. From the original of ZHANG Zhong-jing, this article researched the author’s object of discussing stringy pulse, which can be induced as three aspects diagnosing diseases, analysing pathogenesis and deducing prognosis. The anticle maybe benefi ted to clinical work of TCM.