Discussion On "Irregular Pulse" and Arrhythmia
DONG Yan
WANG Jie
YAO Kui-wu
Abstract：Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) pulses have rich contents,and each one has four elements,namely," pulse position,pulse rate and rhythm,pulse shape,pulse strength ".Irregular pulses are those that take irregular rhythm as main performance.They include pulses which have stop beats or absolutely uneven intervals.In the 28 kinds of pulses and 10 strange pulses involved in TCM exist several irregular ones.They are "Jie mai,Dai mai,Cu mai,Se mai,San mai,Xia You mai,Que Zhuo mai,Jie Suo mai,Ma Cu mai and Wu Lou mai".These irregular pulses are similar to arrhythmias,but not exactly the same.Therefore,this paper will explore the relationships between them,so that accurate information on pulses will be obtained and a correct reference for the combination of modern detection technology with TCM pulses can be provided.
Keywords：Irregular pulseArrhythmia
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 750-753 )