What is the pulse of happiness? Can Chinese medicine really tell whether a woman is pregnant?

People who feel a smooth pulse should mean smooth, like a jade plate with beads rolling. Whether TCM pulse diagnosis can break a woman's pregnancy depends entirely on the experience of the pulse diagnosis doctor.

We often see such a bridge in costume dramas: the doctor is too focused on gathering gas and feeling the pulse for the queen. Then he suddenly knelt down and shouted, "Congratulations, congratulations to the empress, this is your happy pulse." . Seeing this, the audience in front of the TV can understand that the empress is pregnant.

So, what is the pulse of happiness? Can Chinese medicine really tell whether a woman is pregnant? Is the TV drama exaggerated, or can we really judge whether a woman is pregnant by taking her pulse? If so, what is the principle?

1, pulse

To understand this problem, we must first understand: what is the principle of pulse.

Pulse diagnosis is actually a common name for "pulse diagnosis". From the perspective of pulse diagnosis, it has a long history. Sima Qian's Historical Records recorded the treatment contents related to "pulse diagnosis". There was a special book "Pulse Sutra" in Jin Dynasty.

So the question is, what is the principle of pulse?

Generally speaking, the doctor only presses the inch position of the patient's wrist with his hand, and there are also "off position" and "ruler position". The so-called "off position" refers to the position of the radial protrusion (styloid process of radius) of the wrist, and then press the "off position" with the middle finger and the inch position (also called inch position) with the index finger. The ring finger should also be put on the wrist with the index finger and middle finger, which corresponds to the ring finger at this time.

The pulse conditions corresponding to "inch position", "off position" and "ruler position" are respectively "inch pulse", "off pulse" and "ruler pulse". According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, they also correspond to the viscera of the human body.

Generally speaking, according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, a healthy person can feel his pulse beating about four times between breaths, and the pulse conditions of "inch position", "closed position" and "foot position" are gentle and powerful, not floating or sinking. But if there is pain, it will show a pulse. Common pulses mainly include:

Float, sink, count, delay, empty, solid, slippery, flood, precision, string and so on.

What is the pulse of happiness?

Among them, the pulse of slippery pulse is considered as: happy pulse, that is, pregnancy. Then what is slippery pulse?

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, slippery pulse is characterized by smooth pulse, which means smooth, like a jade plate with beads rolling.

The simple explanation is that it feels like a volleyball (bubble) moving in the patient's blood vessels, and people with pulse will feel small iron balls rolling on their fingers.

Will pulse condition be used to diagnose pregnancy in clinic?

It is difficult to diagnose a newly pregnant woman, but it is easier to find a slippery pulse after more than three months.

Pulse diagnosis can diagnose pregnancy. Is it currently used in clinic? It is difficult to diagnose healthy women who have just become pregnant. With the increase of gestational age, the pulse condition becomes more and more obvious. Generally, it is easier to feel slippery pulse after more than 3 months.

However, what can be determined at present is that there is no "pulse-taking pregnancy test" in the clinical diagnosis standard of pregnancy, and there are three gold standards for diagnosis of pregnancy: urine test, blood test and ultrasound.

Can you tell the sex of the fetus by taking the pulse?

When a mother is pregnant with a boy, the pulse in her left hand is faster and stronger than that in her right hand, and vice versa.

For this controversy, many fans of Chinese medicine believe that taking pulse can not only test pregnancy, but also distinguish sex.

In this regard, some Chinese medicine experts said that it was indeed recorded in ancient medical books, but the school did not have a medical textbook specifically discussing this point. Ancient medical books advocated the method of "male left and female right" to listen to the pulse and judge it by comparing the pulse conditions of both hands. If a mother is pregnant with a boy, her left hand has a faster and stronger pulse than her right hand, and vice versa.

So are these really reliable?

The answer is: not very reliable, it depends entirely on the experience of the pulse doctor.

Secondly, even a slippery pulse is not necessarily a happy pulse. If young people are full of qi and blood, they will also show a slippery pulse. If some women are slightly obese, the pulse often appears as slippery pulse. Not only that, but also the pulse of some other diseases will slip.

Therefore, it is not reliable to judge pregnancy only by slippery pulse condition. Perhaps as a preliminary judgment, more detailed examination is needed to judge whether you are pregnant or not.

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