Triple Warmer Flashcards
Command Chart
1- JingWell, Metal 2 - YingSpring, Water 3 - ShuStream, Wood (mother) 4 - Yuan Source 5 - Luo Connecting, confluent pt of the Yang Wei Mai 6 - JingRiver, Fire 7 - XiCleft 10 - HeSea, Earth (Child) 16 - Window of Heaven
TW - 2**
- Disperses upper jiao heat and benefits the ears
- Calms the spirit
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain
YingSpring, Water
+Heat in the upper reaches of the TW channel
+Heat Disturbing the heart and spirit
+Local Disorders (wrist hand fingers)
TW-3***
- Benefits the ears**
- Clears heat
- Clears the head and eyes
- Activates the channels and alleviates pain
ShuStream, Wood (mother)
+Ear disorders of any kind (main distal pt)
+Heaviness of body and PAIN of joints
+Heat in the upper reaches of the TW channel
TW-4**
- Relaxes the sinews and alleviates pain
- Clears heat
Yuan Source
+Pain of local area and along the channel
–WRIST(LI5, SI5) arm, shoulder, neck
+Heat
–Upper reaches of channel: deafness, throat pain
–Febrile disease, malaria
+Wasting and thirsting disorder
TW-5**
- OPENS the Yang Wei Mai**
- -Expels wind and releases the exterior
- -Clears heat
- -Benefits the head and ears
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain
Luo
Confluent pt of the yang wei mai
+GB41: outer canthus, ear, cheek, neck, shoulder, alternate chills and fever
+Exterior syndrome (bias toward Wind-heat)
–Shaoyang stage
+Headache - one sided temporal (LV-GB) frontal, occipital, vertex
+ear disorders
+Heat in the upper reaches of the channel
+Channel disorders of upper limb
TW-6***
- Regulates Qi and clears heat in the three jiao
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain
JingRiver, fire
+#1 TW pt. for moving QI and clearing HEAT in the THREE JIAO
–Upper: ear, eye, cheek, throat, neck; LU, HT
–middle: pain of the RIBS and LATERAL COSTAL REGION; distention and bloating
–Lower: CONSTIPATION*, GYN (Qi stage)
+Channel disorders in upper limb and shoulder
–+GB39: wandering painful obstruction
+Sudden loss of voice d/t Wind/heat
TW-10**
- Transforms PHLEGM and dissipates nodules
- Regulates Qi and descends rebellion
- Calms the spirit
- Clears heat from channel
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain
HeSea, earth (child)
+PHLEGM
–Scrofula* (lymphatic swellings on teh side of the neck or in the axilla)
–Coughing of phlegm (LU), psycho-emotional (HT)
+“Counterflow Qi”
+Heat in the three Jiao
+Pain at the elbow*, arm, shoulder, neck, upper back
TW-14***
- Dispels wind-damp
- Alleviates pain and benefits the shoulder
“Posterior eye of the shoulder”
+Shoulder, esp the posterior aspect (+LI-15, ST38)
TW-15**
- Dispels wind-damp, activates the channel and alleviates pain
- Unbinds the chest and regulates Qi
+Local stiffness, pain and spasm (-GB21)
+Chest
TW-16**
- Benefits the head and sense organs
- Regulates and descends Qi
“Window of Heaven”
+Inversion Qi rushing to the head
–eyes and ears (Sudden deafness with excess of Qi, dimness of vision and hearing)
+Scrofula (cervical lymph node swelling)
+Local pain/stiffness in the neck with inability to turn the head
TW-17***
- Benefits the EARS*
- Eliminates wind
- Clears heat
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain
+Essential local point for all ear disorders
+Exterior or interior wind
+Other local disorders (mumps, scrofula, toothache, swelling of the cheek, TMJ)
TW-20**
- Benefits the ears
- Benefits the teeth, gums, and lips
- Clears HEAT
+Local point for disorders d/t HEAT*
- -EARS* tinnitus deafness discharge, redness, swelling
- -Eyes - redness, swelling, pain
- -Teeth: toothache, swlling and pain of gums
- -MUMPS*
- -Headache
TW-21***
- Benefits the EARS*
- Clears heat
+Ear problems
–SI-19, GB-2
+TMJ, upper jaw toothache
TW-23**
- Eliminates wind and alleviates pain
- Benefits the EYES*
+Eye disorders (redness, swelling, pain, itching of eyes; twitching of eyelids; blurred vision)
+Exterior or interior wind
–Deviation of the face and eye
–Headache, dizziness, epilepsy
