CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PULSE DIAGNOSIS is a method of assessing the patient's unique physical, mental and emotional resources and vulnerabilities as weighed against the various drains on these resources. Students learn to gain this critical information from the pulse, even when, as often happens, it is not reported correctly by the patient. This ancient but updated diagnostic modality guides any acupuncture or herbal treatment.

The pulse provides us with a PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, in the form of information about the disease process that has not yet revealed itself clinically, and about what drives that process in an individual life. With mastery of the pulse, the Acupuncture physician can map out the strengths, weaknesses and therapeutic needs of each patient, unique and different from all others. The pulse makes it possible to treat the individual person.