Triple Energizer Meridian (手少阳三焦经)

Meridian: Triple Energizer Meridian of Hand-Shaoyang   

International Code: TE (Triple Energizer Meridian)   

Circulation Time: Haishi (9:00–11:00 PM)   

Connected Zang-Fu: Pertains to the Triple Energizer, connects to the Pericardium   

Meridian with Same Name: Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-Shaoyang   

Interior-Exterior Meridian: Pericardium Meridian of Hand-Jueyin   

Source: Lingshu · Jingmai (Spiritual Pivot · Meridians)

Brief Introduction   

The Triple Energizer Meridian is one of the twelve regular meridians, one of the three Yang meridians of the hand. Superiorly, it connects to the Pericardium Meridian of Hand-Jueyin at the tip of the ring finger; inferiorly, it meets the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-Shaoyang at the outer canthus. The meridian runs over the middle of the lateral aspect of the upper limb, the shoulder, neck, and head-face, connecting to the Pericardium, Danzhong, and Triple Energizer. The first point is Guanchong (TE1), the last point is Sizhukong (TE23), with 23 points on each side. It transports and metabolizes body fluids. It mainly treats disorders of the head, face, eyes, ears, nose, and throat, febrile diseases, and conditions along the meridian pathway.

Point Descriptions

1.   Guanchong (TE1) – Jing-Well point – headache, red eyes, tinnitus, deafness, throat obstruction, stiff tongue, heatstroke

2.   Yemen (TE2) – Ying-Spring point – headache, red eyes, tinnitus, deafness, throat obstruction, malaria, arm pain

3.   Zhongzhu (TE3) – Shu-Stream point – headache, red eyes, tinnitus, deafness, throat obstruction, febrile disease, malaria, shoulder, back, elbow, and arm soreness, inability to flex or extend the fingers

4.   Yangchi (TE4) – Yuan-Primary point – red and swollen eyes, deafness, throat obstruction, wasting-thirst disorder, dry mouth, wrist pain, shoulder and arm pain

5.   Waiguan (TE5) – Luo-Connecting point, Eight Confluent point (connecting to the Yangwei Vessel) – febrile disease, headache, red and swollen eyes, tinnitus, deafness, scrofula, hypochondriac pain, flaccid paralysis of the upper limb

6.   Zhigou (TE6) – Jing-River point – deafness, tinnitus, sudden loss of voice, hypochondriac pain, constipation, scrofula, febrile disease

7.   Huizong (TE7) – Xi-Cleft point – tinnitus, deafness, arm pain

8.   Sanyangluo (TE8) – deafness, sudden loss of voice, toothache, arm pain

9.   Sidu (TE9) – deafness, sudden loss of voice, toothache, sore throat, arm pain

10. Tianjing (TE10) – He-Sea point – deafness, epilepsy, scrofula, goiter, shoulder and arm pain, migraine, hypochondriac pain, neck pain, elbow strain

11. Qinglengyuan (TE11) – headache, eye pain, hypochondriac pain, shoulder and arm pain

12. Xiaoluo (TE12) – headache, toothache, neck and back pain

13. Naohui (TE13) – scrofula, goiter, upper limb painful numbness

14. Jianliao (TE14) – arm pain, heavy shoulder with inability to raise it

15. Tianliao (TE15) – shoulder and arm pain, stiff neck

16. Tianyou (TE16) – headache, dizziness, stiff neck, blurred vision, sudden loss of voice, epistaxis, throat obstruction, scrofula, stiff neck

17. Yifeng (TE17) – meeting point of the Hand and Foot Shaoyang Meridians – tinnitus, deafness, facial paralysis, facial pain, trismus, cheek swelling, scrofula

18. Chimai (TE18) – headache, tinnitus, deafness, infantile convulsions

19. Luxi (TE19) – headache, tinnitus, deafness, infantile convulsions

20. Jiaosun (TE20) – headache, stiff neck, mumps, toothache, corneal opacity, red and swollen eyes

21. Ermen (TE21) – tinnitus, deafness, otorrhea, toothache, neck and jaw pain

22. Erheliao (TE22) – headache, tinnitus, trismus, mouth deviation

23. Sizhukong (TE23) – epilepsy, headache, dizziness, red and swollen eyes, toothache