The Triple Burner (San Jiao)

Question 1

Triple burner - 4 major definitions:

Answer 1

The triple burner…
1. Divides the truck into specific areas of organ activity.
2. Is the pathway for the movement of Original QI
3. Is the “Waterways”
4. Is a system of disease pattern identification

Question 2

Triple burner: 3 bodily regions and associated organs

Answer 2

• Upper burner: Heart, lung
• Middle burner: Spleen, stomach
• Lower burner: Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Kidneys, Bladder, Liver (functionally)

Question 3

“Original Qi” manifests in the _____ as a kind of ____.

Answer 3

Lower burner, FIRE.
“Life gate fire”, Ming Men Huo, “kidney yang”
Triple burner as a kind of “furnace” that sends qi (in form of heat) throughout the body.

Question 4

Upper burner is like a _____.
Middle burner is like a _____.
Lower burner is like a _____.

Answer 4

MIST (condensation chamber, diffusion of fluids from Lung)

FOAM (fermentation of mash in stomach)

SLUICE (dam w/ gate on the end, pipes used to drain leftover mash: intestines & bladder)

Description of *distillation of liquor.
Life Gate Fire as heat source…

Question 5

Most of the transformation takes place in the ________.

Answer 5

MIDDLE BURNER.
Strains off waste & distills the fluids > “Essence of grain and water” flows upward to Lung channel where it is transformed into Blood