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Effect of Taking Meal on Pulse Diagnosis in Healthy Subjects  

Lee, Yu-Jung (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
Lee, Jeon (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
Lee, Hae-Jung (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
Choi, Eun-Ji (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
Kim, Jong-Yeol (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
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Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine / v.21, no.6, 2007 , pp. 1670-1675 More about this Journal
Abstract
The pulse diagnosis studies reported to date has mainly been performed to clinically reveal the pulse wave characteristics according to the specific diseases, whereas no attempts have been made to study the effects on the pulse wave characteristics of the daily activities such as taking meals, exercise, and sleep, etc. This work reports the effect of feeding stimulus on the healthy subjects on the pulse wave pattern which has quantitatively been analyzed using the objective model for the pulse diagnosis in oriental medicine. The pulse waves right before/after the meal and 30 minutes after the meal were measured using the pulse analyzing equipment (3D-Mac, Daeyo Medi, Korea) and at the same time oriental medicine doctors' diagnoses were given. The pulse parameters obtained from the equipment and clinical records on the subjects were statistically processed and the variables showing statistically significant differences were analyzed. The results indicate that the pulse pressure, the pulse rate, and the respiratory rate increase while the blood pressure decreases after the meal. For the floating/sinking and the deficient/excess coefficients characterizing the pulse states described in the oriental medicine, the floating/sinking coefficients were observed to decrease whereas the deficiency/excess coefficients increase after the meal. The results indicates that besides the standard bio-indicators like blood pressure and respiratory rate, etc., the pulse wave characterization in terms of the pulse classifications in the oriental medicine using the floating/sinking, deficient/excess pulse states provide an important piece of biomedical information.
Keywords
Oriental medicine; pulse diagnosis; eating effect; floating pulse; sinking pulse; deficient pulse; excess pulse;
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