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弦脉迢迢端直长，肝经木旺土应伤。
—— 濒湖脉学 · 弦脉 · 体状诗
The wiry pulse stretches long, straight at head and tail; when liver-wood is overbearing, earth is injured in response.
端直以长，如按琴弦。脉体挺然有力，指下如触紧绷的弓弦。
Straight and long from head to tail, like pressing the string of a zither. The pulse stands taut beneath the finger, as if touching a drawn bowstring.
主肝胆病、诸痛、痰饮、疟疾。弦为肝脉，春季常见；老年人脉弦多属动脉硬化。
Indicates disorders of the liver and gallbladder, pain, phlegm-rheum, and malarial disorders. The wiry pulse is the liver's pulse, commonly seen in spring; in the elderly it often reflects arterial stiffening.
@misc{bencaodian-xian-mai,
author = {{Bencaodian Editorial}},
title = {Xián mài 弦脉 (Wiry)},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Bencao Dian: A Bilingual Knowledge Graph of Traditional Chinese Medicine},
url = {https://bencaodian.org/zh/pulses/xian-mai},
urldate = {2026-04-09},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}