triple warmer
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]triple warmer (plural triple warmers)
- (traditional Chinese medicine) One of the twelve main meridians in the body, which can be treated with acupuncture, moxibustion, or cupping.
- 1988, Kiiko Matsumoto, Stephen Birch, Hara Diagnosis: Reflections on the Sea, →ISBN, page 118:
- The moving qi between the kidneys starts at qi hai; the triple warmer meridian receives it and sends it up to the head and into the brain.
- 2013, Donna Eden, John Feinstein, Energy Medicine, →ISBN:
- Your body cannot possibly fight or even distinguish among all it encounters, and the job of triple warmer has become daunting.
- 2014, Lauren Walker, Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice, →ISBN:
- She adds that triple warmer “is governed by the hypothalamus gland, the body's thermostat and the instigator of the fightorflight response.”
- 2014, Stevenson Xutian, Shusheng Tai, Chun-Su Yuan, Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine, →ISBN, page 380:
- The range of treatment of the San Jiao points include diseases of the sides of the head, ears, eyes, throat, chest, and hypochondrium and triple warmers; and febrile diseases and other illnesses along the traveling course of the meridian.