Is it accurate to take a pulse to determine the sex of the fetus?

In TV dramas, there are often scenes where a doctor can take a pulse of happiness in a few seconds, is it really so amazing to take a pulse in Chinese medicine? The pulse can be taken to know the pregnancy, and can also know the boy and girl? So is it accurate to take a pulse to see the sex of the fetus? Can you really tell the sex of a man or woman by the pulse?

Can you take a pulse to see if you are pregnant

You cannot determine pregnancy only by taking a pulse. A pulse is only a reference for pregnancy and cannot be the only basis for pregnancy. Generally, a pregnant person will show a slippery pulse, that is, when taking the pulse, the three fingers of the ring finger, the middle finger and the index finger can clearly take a pulse that is beating very fast, like a row of bubbles, or a small iron bead passing in turn. However, the slippery pulse may also occur in young and strong people or in certain diseases, and the TCM practitioner needs to take into account the specific physical condition of the person being diagnosed to determine this.

Is it accurate to take a pulse to see the sex of a fetus?

There is no definite answer as to whether this method is reliable or not. According to our classical books, the frequency is judged as "when a woman is pregnant in the fourth month, she wants to know the method of male and female, the left hand disease is male, the right hand disease is female, both diseases are born two sons", which probably means that the left hand pulse beating more obviously is a boy, the right hand pulse beating more obviously is a girl. Judging from the shape of the "left hand sink solid for male, right hand floating large for female"; judging from the ulnar pulse alone as "ulnar pulse left large for male, right large for female". It is also said that if the pulse of "inch" beats more obviously than the others, then the pregnancy is a son, otherwise the chance of conceiving a daughter is greater. But such a diagnosis has been questioned by people, including some Chinese medicine experts, Chinese medicine pulse needs the accumulation of experience, and more often than not is an abstract and indescribable feeling.

How to determine pregnancy

You can use an early pregnancy test after 7 days of delayed menstrual cycle or after 10 to 14 days of intercourse. Two red lines on the test indicate a positive pregnancy; in addition, you can clearly diagnose early pregnancy by checking blood HCG after 10 days of sexual intercourse, which is the earliest and most accurate test.

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In Western medicine, an ultrasound can be performed at about 20 weeks of pregnancy to identify the sex of the fetus, provided that the fetus is in the right position and the ultrasound doctor can see the key parts of the child. There are other methods of identification, such as blood tests, chorionic villus tissue, and amniocentesis, which can be performed at 7 to 8 weeks of pregnancy with higher accuracy, but these techniques are invasive and may affect the health of the pregnant woman and baby, and are generally not recommended. At present, the law in China stipulates that it is illegal to tell a pregnant woman and her family the sex of her fetus without her permission, and it is the same for both children and girls.