These are the basics of pulse diagnosis, fundamentals that every Chinese medicine practitioner must learn, but there's a difference between learning, mastering, and becoming proficient.
Especially with pulse diagnosis, as I've mentioned, it requires a wealth of accumulated clinical experience to become adept at it.
The "Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor" states: 'To diagnose a disease without examining its cause, neglecting issues from dietary irregularities, excessive habits or toxin damage, and treating by pulse alone, what disease could you diagnose accurately?' This shows that only by integrating the four diagnostic methods of observation, inquiry, listening-smelling, and pulse-taking, can one diagnose diseases more accurately; pulse-taking alone is insufficient.
However, pulse diagnosis, as one of the four methods, indeed provides information about the illness and aids in diagnosing diseases.
