John, It's not often that I have met someone that has so graciously extended themself. I really appreciate your enthusiasm about incorporating pulse classes...
Dear Friends, This article is likely useful for a deeper understanding of the pathophysiology involved in the Shen-Hammer Cotton and Ropy pulses. Warmly, Will ...
In another practice in another city (the notes are now there and not here) I was referred a patient by a chiropractor and she had a ganglionic cyst. I...
Will, Are you suggesting that each TCM syndrome basically impacts the fundamental structure of the vascular wall and that is what we are feeling when we take...
Hi Eric - I am saying that there are four basics in terms of Newtonian physics and pulse diagnosis: the pump, the tubes, the fluid and the ground substance. ...
Will, Thanks for the clarification. I guess I have yet to experience a "cotton pulse." So I am still at a loss as to what it is. Eric ... From: William...
I'd like to be able to share this information with the group here in the hopes that some members may have an interest in participating in an experimental...
Hello everyone, I have been playing around with Kiiko style in my personal practice. I find it very gratifying to be able to "clear" different areas around...
Hi Dan - You have a creative synthesis of 5E and 6 channel thinking. The simlar transformation theory of Liu Wan-su states that diseases will transofrm ...
Hi William, I looked at your presentation on 6 ch pulse dx http://www.pulsediagnosis.com/SixChannelPUlseDiagnosisMethodofWangShuhe.htm  and will ponder it for...
Will, I was not aware of the transformative theory of Liu Wan-su. If the premise is that human beings are warm, and that disease tends to transform into heat...
This is really interesting. Just as a christrian of a certain temperment can learn buddhism principles and basics, and even deeper practices, it can enlarge...
"If the premise is that human beings are warm, and that disease tends to transform into heat over time, then is it the built up heat that begins to turn...
Hi Dan - While yin can enfold heat patterns as a means of compensation, the usual trend it towards yin depletion by heat. Of the individual is yang depleted, ...
Will, You wrote: "If one says that the pulse is deep, it is in relation to a tactile experience of the pulse. This is part of the reason for establishing a ...
Hi Eric - Here is where I would place the aesthetic features of pulse dialectics. For any of these features, I use them to inform a process of clinical inquiry...
There is probably one correction/note I would make. This is for the width: wide. Wide pulses also occur with deficient type patterns. Notably are those...
Hi Sean. Can I ask you, are the wide pulse w def patterns and bld def, something you see often? Or a abnormal or more rare thing. Can I ask you to describe a...
Hi Mystir, The blood deficiency pattern with relatively increased width are relatively common - the Vacuous pulse (Xu mai) for example is another pulse which...
I guess I should have not made such generalizations as I didn't use many of the indications. I only used one for the sunken (deep) pulse. I was hoping to...
Classical Pulse Diagnosis draws upon passages from the Nan Jing, Nei Jing and Mai Jing to reveal pulse systems that incorporate depths and regions outside the...
The Introductory class will be 4 days in duration held over 2 weekends. The classes will run 9-5.30pm with an hour for lunch and a small break in both the...
I am admittedly overweight. As it usually happens in America, up until I got married I was in very good shape at 5'8" and 160-165 lbs. Now I'm a bit over...
Hello all, Some of you may remember last year I posted saying that I was going to be becoming a new student at Kansas College of Chinese Medicine. For a...
Eric, Taking my own pulse during and after exercise is something I've played with extensively. I do some kind of physical activity 3-6 days per week, ranging ...
Luke and Eric - This is fascinating, the presence of *yang qiao *pulses after exerting the musculo-skeletal system. Of course, both *qiao *vessels correlate...
Books aside - useful, but not the most important part of learning - however, experience is. Probably the best piece of advice (given your situation and...