Great Stream Pulse / Tai Xi Mai
Updated 2026-08-01
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
The pulsation felt in the depression behind the medial malleolus at Taixi, the source point of the kidney channel of foot lesser yin. Its proposition is that the kidney is the root of the innate constitution, so this pulse reports on the deepest reserve of life; a Taixi pulse that has stopped indicates that the root has failed and the case is beyond rescue. The qualification is that it is used mainly in prolonged illness, in children and in critical cases, and always as one element of a full pattern reading.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Root detector: read the deepest reserve rather than the overall state. - Three-level check: pair it with the radial pulse for the whole and the instep pulse for the acquired. - Late-stage guide: use it in prolonged or critical illness to judge prognosis.
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The kidney stores the constitutional reserve that every other function draws on, and its source point sits where the artery is close to the surface. When that reserve is exhausted the pulse disappears, so the sign is not a measure of current symptoms but of whether the system still has a foundation to repair from.
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