- They listened to a person's heartbeat by feeling their pulse
- This is felt by your index and middle finger
- The pulse is the throb, or heartbeat, in your blood vessels
- It starts from the heart, goes through the body, goes back to the heart, and starts all over again
- Another discovery that Chinese doctors found was how the human body works. A couple strategies Chinese healers used during the Han dynasty was to listen to a person’s heartbeat or by feeling his or her pulse. The pulse is read, or felt, by your index and middle finger. It is the little throb (heartbeat) through the body in your blood vessels. The blood has a system to transfer blood throughout the body, it circulates (starts) from the heart, through the body, and back to the heart, to repeat all over again.