Volume 4 Issue 2 - Summer 2009

by Leon Hammer

2. "Uneveness” and `Changing Amplitude and Intensity‟
The Choppy quality has small `hills‟ and `valleys‟ as one rolls one‟s finger along the pulse. One commentator mentions that since the `hills‟ or "bumps” are of differing height, this is the equivalent of a quality I describe as `Changing Intensity or Amplitude‟, which also varies in height. The argument is, therefore, that Changing Intensity and Amplitude are signs of blood stagnation because like the Choppy quality, there is a variation in height.