In this video (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578081?src=mp&spon=17&uac=96118PN), two doctors on Medscape describe highly technical, mechanical and avant garde attempts to simulate valuable ancient analysis of complex pulsatile blood pressure.
When they speak of the benefits of accessing the wave interactions of blood flow and flowback from the entire arterial tree, I am reminded of Dr. Lad (http://www.ayurveda.com/) speaking of pulse analysis as really an effort to describe a tree using only words.
Stunning, the wisdom of ancient Ayurveda.
For a nice article on Ayurvedic pulse reading from a student at the California College of Ayurveda, click here (http://www.ayurvedacollege.com/AyurvedicPulseDiagnosis_000.htm).