Palpation

Question 1

Chifu

Answer 1

Skin between wrists and elbows

Question 2

Hot

Answer 2

Heat patterns

Question 3

Cold

Answer 3

Cold patterns

Question 4

Hands and feet - Hot hands and/or feet

Answer 4

Yang excess, yin deficiency

Question 5

Hands and feet - Cold hands and/or feet

Answer 5

Yang deficiency, Yin excess

Question 6

Hands and feet - Cold body, hands and feet

Answer 6

Cold reversal - collapse of yang

Question 7

Hands and feet - Hot body, hands and feet

Answer 7

Heat reversal - heat stagnation in interior obstructing circulation to extremities

Question 8

Abdomen - Press and pain is made better

Answer 8

Deficiency

Question 9

Abdomen - Press and pain is made worse

Answer 9

Excess

Question 10

Abdomen - Hard, immobile masses with fixed pain

Answer 10

Blood stasis

Question 11

Abdomen - Formless “masses” which comes and go, pain not fixed

Answer 11

Qi stasis