Triple Warmer Flashcards
Triple Warmer 6 stage name
Hand ShaoYang
TW connections with sense organs
ear, eye, tongue (sinew channel), neck and throat, temporal region of the head
Command Chart: TW
TW1- JW, metal TW2- YS, water TW3- SS, wood TW4- Yuan Source TW5- Luo, confluent pt. of Yang Wei Mai TW6- JR, fire TW7- Xi cleft TW10 -HS, Earth TW16- WOH
TW2 location
Between the ring and little fingers, 0.5 cun proximal to the margin of the web
TW2 actions
Disperses the upper jiao heat, benefits the ears, heat in the Upper TW, ears, eyes, throat, gums, teeth
TW3 location
Depression just proximal to the 4th and 5th MCP joints
TW3 actions
Benefits the ears, any kind of ear disorder: deafness, tinnitus,
Clears heat from the head and the eyes
Heaviness in the body and pain in the joints
TW4 location
At the wrist, between extensor digitorum and extensor digit minimi
TW4 actions
Relaxes sinews, alleviates pain
Wasting and thirsting
wrist/local pain
TW5 location
2 cun proximal to TW4, on the radial side of ext. dig.
TW 5 actions
Opens the Yang Wei Mai
Expels wind, releases the exterior
Clears heat, benefits the head and the ears
HA-temporal
w/ GB41: outer canthus, ear, cheek, neck, shoulder, chills and fever
TW6 location
3 cun proximal to TW4, on the radial side of ext. dig.
TW6 actions
Regulates Qi, clears heat in the 3 jiao
#1 point on TW for clueing heat in the 3 jiao and moving Qi
Sudden loss of voice
Constipation in the LB
TW 10 location
At the below, 1 cun proximal to the olecranon
TW10 actions
Transforms Phlegm, dissipates nodules, scrofula
Counterflow Qi and diarrhea
TW14 location
At the origin of the deltoid, depression posterior and inferior to the acromion
TW14 actions
Dispels wind damp
alleviates pain and benefits the shoulder (posterior)
TW15 location
In the supra scapular fossa, midway between GB21 and SI13
TW15 actions
Dispels wind damp
Unbinds chest and regulates Qi
TW16 location
Posterior to the SCM, 1 fun inferior to GB12
TW 16 actions
Benefits the head and the sense organs
Regulates and descends Qi
Scrofula
TW 17 location
Behind the earlobe, between the rams of the mandible and the mastoid process
TW 17 actions
Benefits the ears
Eliminates wind, clears heat
TW20 location
Level with the apex of the ear
TW20 actions
Benefits the ears, teeth, gums, lips
Clears heat
TW21 location
Anterior the the supra tragic notch and superior to the condyloid process of the mandible
TW21 actions
Benefits the ears
Clears heat
TW23 location
In the depression in the supraorbital margin, lateral to the eyebrow
TW23 actions
Eliminates wind, alleviates pain (ext. or int. wind(
Benefits the eyes
