Source Text                       Distal Position                   Middle Position                   Proximal Position                 
Classic of the Pulse              vomiting, Stomach heat, heat      heat lodged in the Stomach        aversion to cold, heat and pain   
                                  fuming in the chest with                                            below the navel, dark urine       
                                  irritability, fullness, thirst                                                                        
Pivotal Necessities for           headache with ascending heat      Spleen heat with bad breath,      dark urine [left]; unsmooth and   
Diagnosticians                    [left]; malar flush with red      irritable Stomach with vomiting   hard bowel movements [right]      
                                  eyes [right]                      and rebellion                                                       
Binhu Pulse Studies               sores in mouth, tongue and        Stomach fire, Liver fire          Blazing fire from yin deficiency  
                                  throat, vomiting red stuff,                                                                           
                                  cough, Lung abscess                                                                                   
Correct Vision of Diagnosticians  wheezing, cough, mouth sores,     Stomach heat, pathogenic          turbid urine, painful             
                                  Lung abscess                      ascending and attacking           urination, urinary obstruction    
Introduction to Medicine          irritability heat, headache       bad breath, vomiting and          red eyes due to ascendant Liver   
                                                                    rebellion                         fire [left]; difficult and dark   
                                                                                                      urine and stool [right]           
Comprehensive Medicine Ancient    nausea, vomiting, headache        hypochondriac pain [left]; bad    painful, turbid, and              
& Modern                          [left]; fire smelting Lung        breath [right]                    dysfunctional urine [left]; dry   
                                  metal [right]                                                       stool [right]                     
Collection of Pulse               headache with ascending heat,     tearing, tinnitus, red left       unrelenting wasting and           
Differentiations                  mouth sores, irritability,        cheek [left]; bad breath from     thirsting, dark urin [left];      
                                  thirst [left]; cough, spitting    Spleen heat, nausea, and          unsmooth and hard bowel           
                                  up blood, fishy smell in throat   vomiting [right]                  movements, turbid, painful, or    
                                  with pain on swallowing [right]                                     obstructed urination [right]