Shaoyang Triple Heater (Sanjiao)
TH2 (yemen)
- clears TH
pathogenic Heat, reduce swelling – relieve local pain
- Location :
between ring and little fingers, 0.5 cun proximal to margin of
the web
TH3 (zhongshu)
- inability
to bend hand/fingers, tinnitus, Heat diseases, expel Wind/Heat
- Location:
on dorsum of hand, in depression just proximal to 4th and 5th
metacarpo-phalangeal joints
TH4 (yangchi)
-
[Yuan-source]
- local pain
(wrist)
- Location:
on dorsum of wrist, at level of wrist joint, in depression
between the tendons of extensor digitorum communis and extensor
digiti minimi
TH5 (waiguan)
- [Connect to
MH]
- release
exterior, detoxify, clear Heat, constipation due to Heat, local
problems, HBP
- Location:
2 cun proximal to TH4, in depression between radius and ulna,
on radial side of the extensor digitorum communis tendons
TH6 (zhigou)
- frees bowel
Qi – constipation, calms rebel Qi & Fire, local problems
- Location:
3 cun proximal to TH4, in depression between radius and ulna,
on radial side of the extensor digitorum communis muscle
TH7 (huizong)
- [Xi-Cleft]
- pain in
upper limbs
- Location:
3 cun proximal to TH4, level with and on ulnar side of TH6, in
depression between the ulna and extensor digitorum communis
muscle
TH9 (sidu)
- regulates
the waterways (edema), pain in the forearm
- Location:
in depression between radius and ulna, on a line drawn between
TH4 and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus, 7 cun proximal to
TH4
TH10 (tianjing)
- transforms
Phlegm-Damp, elbow problems
- Location:
with elbow flexed, point is located in depression 1 cun
proximal to the olecranon
TH14 (jianliao)
- expel
Wind/Damp, heaviness of shoulder, arm pain
- Location:
at origin of deltoid muscle, in depression which lies posterior
and inferior to lateral extremity of the acromion
TH15 (tianliao)
- local
shoulder problems
- Location:
in suprascapular fossa, in depressoon midway between GB21 and
SI13 (at medial end of suprascapular fossa)
TH17 (yifeng)
- clear Heat,
opens portals (improves hearing), mid ear infection, Bell’s
palsy, grinding teeth/clenched jaw
- Location:
behind the earlobe, between ramus of mandible and mastoid
process, in depression just superior to the palpable transverse
process of 1st cervical vertebra
TH18 (qimai)
- head wind
(severe headache)
- Location:
posterior to ear, in a small depression on mastoid bone, one
3rd of the distance along a curved line drawn from TH 17 to TH
20 following the line of rim of ear
TH19 (luxi)
- head wind
(severe headache)
- Location:
posterior to ear, in small depression two 3rd of the distance
along a curved line drawn from TH17 to TH20 following the line
of rim of ear
TH20 (jiaosun)
- clears the
head, brightens the eyes, red sore swollen eyes, headache,
toothache
- Location:
on side of head, directly level with apex of ear when ear is
folded forwards
TH21 (ermen)
- opens
portals (improves hearing), tinnitus, mid ear infection,
toothache
- Location:
in depression anterior to supratragic notch and slightly
superior to condyloid process of the mandible
TH23 (sizhukong)
- brightens
eyes, relieves pain (headache), visual dizziness, painful
swollen eyes, twitching eyelids
- Location :
in depression on supraorbital margin, at lateral end of eyebrow