STUVIA 2024/2025
D&D Palpating: Skin limbs hand chest abdomen
and points
Cold feeling Skin temp
cold pattern
four limbs cold
def of yang of SP and ST
Cold loins lower back or feet
Def of KD yang
Cold lower abdomen
SP yang Def
Hot skin
damp heat
Skin hot on first touch but if the pressure of the fingers is maintained it ceases to feel hot
invasion of exterior wind heat with the pathogenic factor still on the exterior
skin over a blood vessel hot on medium pressure but not on heavy pressure
interior heat in the middle burner or heart
skin feels hot on heavy pressure which nearly reaches the bone
%
empty heat from yin def
moist skin
invasion of exterior wind
moist skin without exterior symptoms
deficiency of LU qi
dry skin
Blood deficiency or Lung yin defeiciency
rough skin
Bi syndrome from wind
scaly and dry skin
Exhaustion of body fluids or severe deficiency and dryness of liver blood
Swollen skin pitting
Water swelling from SP and or KD yang xu
swollen skin not pitting
Qi swelling from dampness or Qi stagnation
Cold hands and feet
SP ST Yang Xu
Cold hands
LU and or HT Yang Def
Cold feet
stuvia
, STUVIA 2024/2025
KD Yang Xu
Cold hands and feet in women
Blood Def
Cold hands in women
HT blood Xu
Cold feet in women
LR Blood Xu
Cold Finger and toes
LR Qi stagnation
Less common cause of Cold hands and feet
Phlegm or interior heat obstructing circulation of qi
Hot dorsum of hand
Full heat
hot palm
empty heat
Chapter 74 of spiritual axis relates temperature of palm of the
intestines hot/cold
in acute diseases the heat of dorsum vs palm confirms
exterior nature of it
center/middle of hand reflects
%
Abdominal cavity organs
Adjacent and lateral to thenar eminence reflects
Respiratory organs
Base of the palm around thenar eminence reflects
Chest cavity organs
The pad of the palm reflects
reproductive and urinary organs
Beneath the index finger and diagonal through center of palm reflects
intestines and rectum
Microcosm of hand is similar to ear in that it is
upside down baby
Palpating Chest:
Apical Pulse clearly felt not hard relatively slow
normal
Apical pulse:
feeble and without strength
Deficiency of the Gathering Qi
Apical Pulse:
Strong and Hard
excess condition of the Lungs and or heart
stuvia
D&D Palpating: Skin limbs hand chest abdomen
and points
Cold feeling Skin temp
cold pattern
four limbs cold
def of yang of SP and ST
Cold loins lower back or feet
Def of KD yang
Cold lower abdomen
SP yang Def
Hot skin
damp heat
Skin hot on first touch but if the pressure of the fingers is maintained it ceases to feel hot
invasion of exterior wind heat with the pathogenic factor still on the exterior
skin over a blood vessel hot on medium pressure but not on heavy pressure
interior heat in the middle burner or heart
skin feels hot on heavy pressure which nearly reaches the bone
%
empty heat from yin def
moist skin
invasion of exterior wind
moist skin without exterior symptoms
deficiency of LU qi
dry skin
Blood deficiency or Lung yin defeiciency
rough skin
Bi syndrome from wind
scaly and dry skin
Exhaustion of body fluids or severe deficiency and dryness of liver blood
Swollen skin pitting
Water swelling from SP and or KD yang xu
swollen skin not pitting
Qi swelling from dampness or Qi stagnation
Cold hands and feet
SP ST Yang Xu
Cold hands
LU and or HT Yang Def
Cold feet
stuvia
, STUVIA 2024/2025
KD Yang Xu
Cold hands and feet in women
Blood Def
Cold hands in women
HT blood Xu
Cold feet in women
LR Blood Xu
Cold Finger and toes
LR Qi stagnation
Less common cause of Cold hands and feet
Phlegm or interior heat obstructing circulation of qi
Hot dorsum of hand
Full heat
hot palm
empty heat
Chapter 74 of spiritual axis relates temperature of palm of the
intestines hot/cold
in acute diseases the heat of dorsum vs palm confirms
exterior nature of it
center/middle of hand reflects
%
Abdominal cavity organs
Adjacent and lateral to thenar eminence reflects
Respiratory organs
Base of the palm around thenar eminence reflects
Chest cavity organs
The pad of the palm reflects
reproductive and urinary organs
Beneath the index finger and diagonal through center of palm reflects
intestines and rectum
Microcosm of hand is similar to ear in that it is
upside down baby
Palpating Chest:
Apical Pulse clearly felt not hard relatively slow
normal
Apical pulse:
feeble and without strength
Deficiency of the Gathering Qi
Apical Pulse:
Strong and Hard
excess condition of the Lungs and or heart
stuvia
