Pulse Diagnosis: The Twelve Positions

One patient, twelve positions, one needle

In the final lesson I read a real patient's pulse from start to finish, on camera. Below is what you learn to do, step by step, and how I use it in my own clinic.

What you learn to do

• Find the three positionsThe styloid process is your landmark. The middle finger lands just behind it on guan, cun lies above, chi below. Before you read anything, you make sure you are on the vessel: its edges, the pulsation, the strength.
• Read each position in layersPress the artery, then release slowly. On the right wrist the middle position gives you spleen yin, then spleen yang, then the stomach. Cun gives the lung and the large intestine, chi the pericardium and san jiao. On the left wrist: liver and gallbladder, heart and small intestine, kidney and bladder.
• Mark what you feelEvery position gets a simple mark on the chart: check, check plus, check minus, tense. In this patient the stomach was broad and tense, the large intestine a little overactive, the gallbladder overstimulated.
• Find the weakest linksThe deficient positions were the pericardium, san jiao, heart and small intestine. All four belong to the fire element.
• Choose one pointTo strengthen fire I chose SI 5, the point that strengthens fire the most, with a reinforcing technique. Other fire points would also work, and so would points on the upper torso and head.
• Check the same positions againNeedle out, fingers back on the wrist. On the left, the heart and small intestine are noticeably stronger. On the right, the chi position is now clearly palpable.

How I use it in my clinic

This is the reading I do before every treatment, 20 to 30 patients a day. I look for the weakest positions first, because they tell me where to begin. When the weak positions share an element, one point can reach all of them. After the needle I put my fingers back on the same positions, so I know whether the treatment changed something before the patient gets up.

The video shows the steps. What makes them work is the feeling in your fingertips, and that is what lessons 2 to 17 train: the drills, the three parameters, deficiency, excess and stagnation.

What changes in your treatment room

• You know what you are feeling. Step by step: your fingertips, change, each position, the qualities in each one.
• You name the pulse and turn it into a decision. What to strengthen, what to reduce, and in what order.
• You check your own treatment. The same position after needling shows you whether it changed.
• Your other methods get a starting point. Source points, five elements, the organ clock: the pulse tells you where to begin today.

What the course covers

• Finger sensitivityPalpation drills: which finger to use, how to keep pressure stable, how to feel a change before you name it.
• The twelve positionsCun, guan and chi on both wrists, then all twelve positions mapped to the twelve meridians.
• Three parametersStrength, tension and filling: the assessment you run in every position.
• Deficiency, excess, stagnationHow each one feels under the fingertips, including yin and yang stagnation, and what each asks you to do.
• Strategy and recordingHow to organize the findings and choose the treatment from the pulse.
• A full case, start to finishOne pulse read on a patient: palpation, diagnosis, one point, and the change under the fingertips.

What practitioners say

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This lesson from Pulse Essentials shows how I find the twelve positions. It is open, no signup.

Repeatable. Tested. Complete.

The pulse tells you where to work, the reading tells you what to do, and the same position after needling tells you whether it worked. Every step belongs to one method, so there is nothing to assemble yourself.

• Repeatable. The same twelve positions and three parameters, patient after patient.
• Tested. The reading I use to decide every treatment in my own clinic, 20 to 30 patients a day.
• Complete. Diagnosis and the treatment decision fit together, so you can use it with your next patient.

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Pulse Diagnosis: The Twelve Positions

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Your next patient

You put three fingers on the wrist and you know what you are feeling, which position it is, and what it means for the treatment you are about to give.