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