reference to the method of examining the pulse used in traditional Chinese medicine. The
authoritative text on this
subject was the "Pulse
Classic" written by Wang Shu-ho in the third century b.c. The
technique consists of examining the pulse in several places, at
different times, and with varying degrees of
pressure, and is used both for diagnosis and
prognosis (the
prediction of the probable
course of a disease in an
individual and the chances of
recovery). Early Japanese medicine was based entirely on older Chinese medical works. All you're going to do is
read your
tone arm, see? But giving you this other in total, painful detail, "You
sit there and you
audit with your fingers on their pulse," you see, and now give you the whole
rundown of the Japanese or Chinese system of pulse counting by
pressure because that's the more
complex system.
-A Summary of Study (4 Aug. 64)