Week 8 : Pericardium / Triple Warmer Begin in the shoulder rotation position......transition to an arm rotation... Then bring the arm back into the first Pericardium stretch. Hold the arm to your body, and first stretch up away from the floor, then stretch a little bit backwards. (2) Then stretch away Side view of the same technique. (1) First stretch up Page 1
Second Pericardium Stretch (1)Release the first stretch and sit in seiza next to the receiver... (2)...with your inside hand, hold proximal to the elbow. With your outside hand flex the palm and plant the arm. Take the slack out of the arm and keep it in a stretched position. (3) Keeping the palm flexed and arm stretched, open the arm out perpendicularly to the torso. Continue until you reach the end of range of motion for this stretch. Take a couple deep breaths in and out while holding the stretch. Practitioner s eye view of step 2. Note that the inside hand just keeps the elbow straight while the top hand establishes the stretch from the palm through the whole arm. Practitioner s eye view of step 3. The white line shows the direction of the arm s movement, Page the 2black line shows how the outside hand continues to maintain the stretch at the palm, flexing the wrist.
Triple Warmer Meridian Lay the receiver s arm across the side of their torso for the Triple Warmer working position. 4 5 7 6 8 9 lateral epycondyle of humerus TW 14 10 11 12 13 olecranon process Triple Warmer (Triple Heater/Triple Burner/San Jiao) - Protection / Immune Function / Peripheral Circulation TW 1 - Exit of Rushing Energy - (not pictured) the corner of the nail on the ulnar side of the ring finger. TW 4 - On the wrist joint, at the depression felt when moving proximally from the gap between the 4th and 5th fingers. TW 5-9 - All found relative to the extensory digitorum muscle. This muscle is the first big ropy tendon you run into when you start at the pinky side arm bone (the ulna) and feel your way towards the center of the forearm. 5,6,7 and 9 are all on the radial (thumb) side of that tendon. TW 8 is on the ulnar (pinky) side. The TW Meridian passes through the lateral grove of the elbow. This is the groove that is farther away from the torso, in between the elbow tip (olecranon process) and the lateral epycondyle of the humerus. TW 10 - Just above the lateral elbow groove. TW 11-13 - On a line connecting TW 10 and 14 TW 14 - Top of the Shoulder - Below and just behind outside tip of shoulder bone (acromion), where your fingers fall when you squeeze your own arm muscle (deltoid). Page 3
Triple Warmer Working Position: Mother hand at wrist, messenger hand treats along the meridian using palm or thumb technique, starting w/ TH 14 top of the shoulder...thumb treating TW 12......using the thumb to treat through the lateral groove of the elbow... through the groove on the lateral side of the forearm muscles. At this point, return to a shoulder rotation position to prepare to treat the meridian in the shoulder, neck and face. Page 4
TW 15 - Heaven s Bone - Directly posterior to GB 21. If GB 21 is on the top of the shoulder, with an angle of entry straight down towards the feet, TH 15 is just behind the top of the shoulder, with an angle of entry pointed somewhat forward towards the chest. TW 23 22 21 20 19 18 TW 16 - Posterior border of SCM muscle, level with the mandible angle. TW 17 - underneath the earlobe, angling against the back of the jaw. 17 16 TW 18 - Behind the ear, on a small slit in the bone TW 19 - Behind the ear, between 17 and 20 (angle of mandible) TW 20 - Just above the apex of the ear. TW 15 TW 21 - Just above SI 19, in between the jaw bone and the ear cartilage TW 22-1 cun anterior and superior to TW 21 SCM Muscle TW 23 - Silk Bamboo Hollow - At the depression found at the lateral end of the eyebrow. Keep your inside hand at the shoulder as mother hand. Messenger thumb will hold each point in turn. While holding a constant pressure, alternately compress and stretch the shoulder. TW 15 Heaven s Bone. TW 16 Page 5
TH 17 TW 20 TW 23 - Silk Bamboo Hollow Page 6