The Correlation Study of Cun, Guan and Chi Position Based on Wrist Pulse Characteristics

Abstract

To analyze the correlation of pulse characteristics at different acquisition positions, the pulse parameters that can identify different pulse and physiological information are given. In this paper, the relevance and difference of wrist pulse characteristics at Cun, Guan and Chi position were studied by pulse diagnosis instrument and time-frequency, frequency-domain and time-frequency domain analysis methods etc. Firstly, the pulse information of Cun, Guan and Chi position is collected from 206 healthy adults. The 66 pulse characteristics of each sampled location are extracted. In addition, the 66 feature indexes of each position are used to calculate the Spearman correlation coefficients among Cun, Guan, Chi position as well as the both hands in detail. Finally, the relevance and difference of wrist pulse at Cun, Guan and Chi position were studied and analyzed by significance test. The pulse characteristics with high correlation at Cun-Guan-Chi position of left and right hands are mainly power spectrum characteristics and time-frequency characteristics, while the features with high correlation between both hands mostly concentrate in the time domain characteristics. This work has studied the relationship between the position of pulse acquisition from quantitative and qualitative aspects, and laid a foundation for the objective diagnosis of pulse condition and the comprehensive disclosure of pulse information.

Keywords

• TCM
• Cun-Guan-Chi
• relevance
• difference
• pulse characteristics