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Also inch opening; qì opening; vessel opening. The pulse felt on the inner (palmar) face of the wrist, at a location described in modern anatomy as the styloid process of the radius. The wrist pulse is divided into three sections: inch cùn, bar guān, and cubit chǐ. It is generally agreed that, on the left wrist, the inch pulse reflects the heart, the bar reflects the liver, and the cubit reflects the kidney, whereas on the right wrist, the inch reflects the lung, the bar the spleen and stomach, and the cubit the life gate. See pulse; three positions and nine indicators.

Etymology

Chinese: 寸 cùn, inch, cun; 口 kǒu, mouth, opening.

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