How to regulate string pulse

There are actually many blood vessels in the body. For Chinese medicine, the treatment of patients is all done by regulating the blood vessels, and string pulse is one of them. If you want to regulate your stringy pulse, you can drink some Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine has the effects of warming the body, nourishing yin and beauty, replenishing qi and calming the mind. Moreover, Chinese medicine regulation requires starting from the patient himself. You must pay attention to eating habits and ensure adequate sleep quality.

The string pulse is a type of pulse condition in traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis. When pressed, it feels like a violin string, straight and long, and firm under the fingers. If the pulse is thin, stringy and moist, it is a sign of the initial onset of damp-heat and the evil blocking the Qi. If the pulse is stringy and rapid, it is mostly a sign of heat stagnation in the Shaoyang meridian and raging gallbladder fire. If the pulse is stringy and slippery, it is mostly a sign of febrile disease with phlegm. If the pulse is stringy, strong and rapid, it indicates excessive heat evil and internal movement of liver wind.

String pulse is a type of pulse used in TCM diagnosis. When pressed, the pulse feels like a harp string, straight and long, and feels firm under the fingers. String pulse means that the pulse felt by the fingers is like pressing a straightened string at both ends, or plucking a taut string, and has a certain firmness and rapidity. String pulse can be divided into physiological and pathological ones. Physiologically, it often indicates that the person is more irritable and has a bad temper. Another thing to note is that in spring, the pulse of a normal person is also more stringy. Pathologically, it often indicates that the patient has pain, liver disease, phlegm or malaria.

Pulse secret: straight and long, like pressing a string of a musical instrument.

Another feature is: go straight through it, point straight down, and the finger should feel straight and powerful.

Xiao Chaihu Decoction

[Composition]: 24 grams of Bupleurum; 9 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis; 9 grams of Ginseng; 6 grams of roasted Licorice; 9 grams of Pinellia; 9 grams of Ginger; 4 dates.

【Usage】: Decoction in water.

【Indications】: Shaoyang disease. The evil is half superficial and half interior, with symptoms including alternating chills and fever, fullness and pain in the chest and flanks, silence and loss of appetite, irritability and nausea, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, dizziness, thin white tongue coating, and stringy pulse; in women with typhoid fever, heat enters the blood chamber. The menstruation stops, and there are occasional attacks of chills and fever; or there are internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases such as malaria, jaundice, etc., and the above Shaoyang disease symptoms are present.

[Additions and Subtractions]: For vomiting and retching, add ginger and dried tangerine peel; for restlessness but not vomiting, remove pinellia and ginseng and add trichosanthes; for thirst, remove pinellia and add pollen; if not thirsty but with slight fever, remove ginseng and add cinnamon twig, cover and induce slight sweating; for cough, remove ginseng, jujube and ginger and add schisandra chinensis and dried ginger; for restlessness due to deficiency, add bamboo leaves and japonica rice; for dry teeth without fluid, add gypsum; for excessive phlegm, add trichosanthes and fritillaria; for abdominal pain, remove scutellaria baicalensis and add peony root; for hardness and distension under the ribs, remove jujube and add oyster; for pain under the heart, add green peel and peony root; for palpitations under the heart and difficulty urinating, remove scutellaria baicalensis and add poria; for headache according to this meridian, add chuanxiong; for jaundice, add capillaris.

Xiao Jianzhong Decoction

【Ingredients】: 30g maltose; 9g cinnamon twig; 18g peony root; 9g ginger; 6 jujubes; 6g roasted licorice root.

【Source】：Treatise on Febrile Diseases

【Classification】: Warming agent - warming the middle and dispelling cold

[Prescription]: Xiao Jianzhong Decoction contains more peony root, cinnamon, ginger, licorice and jujube. Add malt sugar to nourish the internal organs, and it can cure abdominal coldness caused by deficiency and fatigue. What’s more, Astragalus has the same name and is extremely effective in relieving body pain due to superficial deficiency.

【Usage】: Decoction in water.

[Prescription theory]: This prescription is composed of Guizhi Decoction with twice the amount of peony root and added with jelly. The formula uses a lot of maltose to warm the middle and replenish deficiency, harmonize the interior and relieve urgency; cinnamon twig warms yang and dispels cold; peony harmonizes the circulation and nourishes yin; and roasted licorice regulates the middle and replenishes qi. All these medicines are used together to warm and nourish the vital energy, balance yin and yang, and harmonize the Ying and Wei.

[Contraindications]: It should not be used by those suffering from vomiting or fullness in the stomach; it should not be used by those suffering from stomach pain due to yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire.