A lowered pulse can be felt as having dropped down away from the surface of the skin of the wrist and below the point considered as moderate. The cause of lowered pulse is lack of internal heat. For the sake of interest, the twenty-seven variations are reproduced in Table 6. A weak pulse is due to a weakness of the animal power. Duration of Cycle Duration of cycle is the measure of the speed with which the pulse beat passes over the measuring point of the fingertips.
Fast cycle completes the cycle in a brief period of time.
Slow cycle completes in a longer period. The moderate pulse is between the two. This is not simply an opposite measurement of the quality ascertained in the duration of cycle, because of this successive nature of the variation. The cause of successive inaction is weakness of the animal power. The cause of different pause is the presence of the highest possible degree of animating life force, which is an imbalance, not health.