A Nadiswara session is short, calm and the same every time. The app shows it as five steps, and this article follows them with the words the app actually uses on screen, so you know what to expect before you start.
Before you begin
You need three things: an Android phone with the Nadiswara app, the Nadiswara pulse sensor (a small probe that connects to the phone by USB-C), and a prepaid wallet balance. There is no subscription. Sessions and therapy reports are paid from the wallet, and you see the price before you pay.
If you do not have the device yet, the app offers a second path: the Tongue Wellness Report, which needs no hardware. The steps below note where that path differs.
Step 1: Add a member
Everyone whose pulse you read is a member: yourself, a family member or a client. The app keeps each member's sessions, reports and notes together, so a practitioner can look back at a member's history and see how a pattern has moved between visits.
When a returning member starts a session, the app first asks "How have you been?" and says "Tell us how each symptom has changed since the last session." Each symptom noted at the last visit is listed with the question "How has this changed?" and three answers, Better, Same or Worse (Improving, No change, Declining), with a counter such as "Rate 2 more symptoms" until all are rated, and a box for "Changes since the last session". Those answers travel with the new session and feed the report's "Since your last visit" card.
Step 2: Note symptoms, by typing or by voice
The Symptoms screen asks a single question: "How are you feeling?" with the prompt "Type or speak — in your own words." You can type, or tap the microphone and talk. Both work in English or Kannada.
The app then prepares a summary. It shows what you said, a short symptoms summary and the individual symptoms as chips, and asks you to review them before continuing. Nothing is sent to the next step until you have checked it.
Step 3: Take a tongue photo and answer a few questions
The tongue step opens with "Capture your tongue" and a guide image. Hold the phone above your face, frame only from below your nose to your jaw, open your mouth and stretch your tongue out fully, and make sure the light is good and the focus is clear. A cropper, "Fit your tongue", asks you to "Keep only the tongue inside the frame". The app checks that the photo is a clear tongue image before accepting it and shows "Looks good" when it is.
In a Nadi Pariksha session the tongue photo can be skipped; the skip sheet asks "Do you want to continue without capturing your tongue?" and offers "Capture tongue" as the other choice. In a Tongue Wellness session it is required: "A tongue photo is needed for this session. Since no pulse was recorded, your report will be based on your tongue." Why practitioners look at the tongue explains more.
Then comes "A few questions about you": "Your answers help us understand your health better. It takes about a minute." Each question says "Select one" or "Select all that apply", and a counter shows how many are "more to go". In a tongue session the app next shows "Checking your tongue photo", which can take up to a minute; if the photo cannot be read it says "Tongue photo not accepted" and offers "Try again" or "Retake photo".
Step 4: Record the pulse
Now the sensor comes out. Connect it to the phone by USB-C, settle the probe on the wrist, and press "Start reading". A short countdown lets the member settle, then the reading begins. The screen says it plainly: "sit still, breathe normally".
The reading takes under a minute. A live trace scrolls across the screen as the sensor captures the pulse, and when the reading is complete you can swipe back through it before choosing "Analyse pulse" or "Retake".
After the pulse is analysed, the app asks a few quick yes/no questions about the top-scoring meridians. These confirm the findings before the report is written.
Step 5: Get the wellness report
The app prepares the report with a few status lines: "Reading your answers", "Mapping your meridians", "Writing your summary", "Almost there". Then the report card appears.
At the top is the score card: a wellness score from 0 to 100 (a wellness score, not a medical measurement), a status of Thriving, Balanced, Needs attention or Needs care, a headline and the "Main pattern" the reading points to, such as "Liver · Cold". Below it are four tabs. Overview holds "Wellness at a glance" (six scored areas), "Body balance", the pulse recording with its five elements card, "Your main patterns" (Main focus, Secondary and Tertiary, each with the organ, its element, its Yin or Yang side and a level chip of Healthy, Mild, Moderate or High) and, for a returning member, "Since your last visit". Mind holds the thought pattern and "Try this"; Food holds food metabolism and "Your food guide".
The Therapies tab holds the multi-page PDF, the Nadi Pariksha Wellness Report, in English or Kannada, with a "Healer suggestion" button where a practitioner writes points that are appended to the PDF. Under it, therapy reports unlock from the wallet once the PDF is ready: acupressure, acupuncture points for trained practitioners, seed therapy, single seed with its safety questions first, auricular, mudra, pranayama, yoga and colour therapy. Sharing on WhatsApp or saving to the phone sends one merged PDF with every therapy report unlocked for the session.
The tongue-only path
Choose "Tongue Wellness Report" on the home screen and the session runs the same way, with two differences: the tongue photo cannot be skipped, and there is no pulse step. The report has the same score card and tabs, with the tongue reading, its five-zone map and the "Pattern contribution" chart in place of the pulse recording. The Tongue Wellness page walks through it in detail.