03/29/2025
Pregnancy and Traditional Chinese Medicine pulse taking:
A little while ago, after taking the pulses of a female patient I have know for many years, I bluntly asked her if she could be pregnant but she denied it. To be cautious, I gave her a gentle treatment and urged her to have a pregnancy test at home to be sure. To my surprise, her pregnancy test turned out to be negative. A few weeks later, the same patient returned to tell me that she found out her pregnancy shortly after that failed test and now she is 7.5 weeks pregnant!!
Ladies, when you are pregnant, even in the early stage of pregnancy, your pulses can feel very distinguishable, like small beads rolling or gliding underneath the fingers, which is called a slippery pulse. The slippery pulse can mean other things as well, such as phlegm-damp obstruction or food stagnation.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, we can take the pulses of your Lung, Spleen, Right Kidney on the right wrist and Heart, Liver and Left Kidney on the left wrist to feel the energies of your internal organs. Pulse Diagnosis is one of the four major assessments in TCM diagnostic consultations.
If you are curious about what type of pulses you have, you are welcome to come in for a quick 20-min free consultation.
