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革脉形如按鼓皮，芤弦相合脉寒虚。
—— 濒湖脉学 · 革脉 · 体状诗
The drumskin pulse feels like pressing the head of a drum—scallion-stalk and wiry combined—signifying cold deficiency.
浮而搏指，中空外坚，如按鼓皮。为芤与弦相兼之脉。
Floating and striking the finger, hollow within and hard without—like pressing a drumhead. It combines the qualities of the scallion-stalk and wiry pulses.
主亡血、失精、半产漏下。精血大伤，气无所附，浮越于外，故脉外强中空。
Indicates blood loss, seminal emission, miscarriage, and uterine spotting. When essence and blood are greatly injured, qi has nowhere to adhere and floats outward—hence a pulse firm on the outside and hollow within.
@misc{bencaodian-ge-mai,
author = {{Bencaodian Editorial}},
title = {Gé mài 革脉 (Drumskin)},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Bencao Dian: A Bilingual Knowledge Graph of Traditional Chinese Medicine},
url = {https://bencaodian.org/zh/pulses/ge-mai},
urldate = {2026-04-09},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}