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Nadipariksaprakaramaha : Method of examination of pulse is stated:
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ategie afATATİTFT TOT II (V.7) At the time of examination of the pulse the physician should hold the hand of the patient to be examined with his own left hand slightly bent by pressing the internal pulse of the later, running through the elbow (Kurpara) and should always examine the pulse at the place measuring two fingers width just below the small gland at the lower part of the thumbfinger with his own three fingers of his right hand called fore finger, middle finger. When he examines the pulse (of the patient) at the root (base) of the thumb finger, he should not press the elbow (of the patient). The pressing of the elbow is to be known only for feeling the successions of beating of the pulses of vayu, pitta and kaph (air, fire/bile, and phlegm/water).
अङ्गुष्ठमूलमधि पश्चिमभागमध्ये ।
ATST 995mfa: hari rata 11 (1.8) At the end of praoostha (thumb) of the hand in the wrist (manibandha), at the lower part (paschimabhagamadhya) of the ankle, at the root of the ear, at the root of the nose and at the front of the hole of the ear (Karnarandhra), the examination of the pulses should be made at the place measuring the width of two fingers as previously said. The knowledge of the
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