Can Pulse Diagnosis Tells Pregnancy?

Can a pulse test confirm pregnancy? 

Chinese medicine says yes

BEIJING — "Stick out your tongue. Now give me your wrist."

That's how "Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)" practitioners begin to diagnose what ails you. It's often followed by a prescription of foul-tasting herbs, to be taken daily, along with exhortations to consume or avoid certain "hot" or "cold" foods.

But after more than 2,000 years of practice, the question remains: Is there scientific evidence that traditional Chinese medicine actually works? A doctor at one of Beijing's top hospitals is challenging these time-honored methods with a modern proposal: cash prizes for proof.

Dr. Ning Fanggang is offering 100,000 renminbi ($16,300) to anyone who resolves the common claim that traditional practitioners can tell if a woman is pregnant just by taking her pulse. "If (someone is) successful, I will never state that Traditional Chinese Medicine is a fake science," Ning promised. The 38-year-old is chief surgeon at Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, which specializes in burn victims, and is also one of the best-known doctors on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

His challenge calls for readings of 80% accuracy, using the pulse method alone. Critics complain that isolating the wrist from the rest of the system undermines the validity of a diagnosis, and thus the challenge.

This is from USA Today.