The 28 Pulse Qualities Reviewed
Refine your pulse diagnosis skills with a deep dive into the 28 pulse qualities. Learn classical insights and practical techniques to improve diagnostic accuracy.
The 28 Pulse Qualities Reviewed
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Live 24th May 2025, then On-Demand Video
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Taking this course, you will
- Recognise and differentiate the 28 pulse qualities, with a focus on commonly misinterpreted ones like confined (fu), overflowing (hong), and leather (ge).
- Understand the diagnostic significance of pulse qualities in assessing the state of qi and blood in Chinese medicine.
- Develop a refined sense of touch and improve pulse-taking accuracy by applying classical Chinese medicine principles and practical techniques.
- Enhance diagnostic confidence by learning from case studies and the instructor’s 49 years of experience in pulse diagnosis.
- Integrate pulse diagnosis more effectively into clinical practice, ensuring more accurate and holistic patient assessments.
‘The feeling of the pulse is the most important medium of diagnosis. Nothing surpasses the examination of the pulse for with it errors cannot be committed.’
– Su Wen ch 5.
Course Overview
If only pulse diagnosis was so easy!!!!!
It is possibly the most difficult of the skills an acupuncture practitioner needs to master and sadly it is all too easy to commit errors. In China in earlier times going to see a medical practitioner was often referred to as ‘going to have my pulses felt.’ And yet whereas many practitioners place pulse diagnosis at the very heart of their diagnostic process, for others it plays a minor role compared to the nature of the symptoms.
The 28 qualities form the basis of pulse diagnosis. Accurate diagnosis gives the practitioner invaluable information about the nature of the patient’s qi and blood that is very hard to discover otherwise. This talk is designed to help practitioners and students clarify confusions between the pulse qualities and enhance their ability to identify the different qualities. Particular emphasis will be placed on the different kinds of floating (fu) pulse and how to recognise relatively common, but easy to miss, qualities such as confined (fu), overflowing (hong) and leather (ge). The course will draw upon the Classics of Chinese medicine and Peter’s 49 years of experience in pulse diagnosis.
‘Focus your attention to your finger tips. Do not speak, do not listen, do not smell and do not think. This is the key principle of pulse diagnosis.’
-Yanagiya
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