Untying Rope Pulse / Jie Suo Mai
Updated 2026-08-02
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Untying rope pulse (Jie Suo Mai) is a traditional Chinese medicine pulse pattern in which the rhythm becomes scattered, alternating between slow and rapid without a stable base, said to resemble a rope coming apart. It belongs to a group of critical pulse signs alongside the boiling-bubble and shrimp-swimming pulses, all of which indicate that the cohesive force of qi has failed and organ coordination is breaking down. Classical texts describe it as a sign of kidney qi exhaustion and a dying pulse.
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- Cohesion probe: read irregular, base-less rhythm as loss of coordination rather than a single-organ fault. - Prognosis flag: use the pattern as a warning about trajectory, not as a treatment target on its own. - Whole-system rule: confirm with the full clinical picture before drawing any conclusion from the pulse.
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A stable pulse depends on coordinated contraction driven by a common regulatory force. When that force fails, individual components keep firing but no longer synchronize, so the rhythm scatters and loses its root. The scatter is therefore a systemic signal: it reports the breakdown of coordination itself rather than damage to any one organ, which is why it carries prognostic weight out of proportion to its local appearance.
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