Acupoint+TW-4+(Yang+Chi)

//Yang Pool, Yang Pond// Yuan Source Point. = = =Location= On the transverse crease of the dorsum of the wrist, in the depression lateral to the tendon of muscle extensor digitorum communis.
 * Yang Chi • Triple Burner 4 • 10.4.232**

=Point Summary= //Relaxes The Tendons Clears Heat// //Alleviates Pain//

=Needling=

Depth:
0.3 - 0.5 cun

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

=General Indications=

Functions
local

Indications
pain and diseases of the soft tissues of wrist in TCM

Special Notes
source point; is used in JA for chronic KI deficiency because the TW carries the pre-natal qi around

=Diagnostic Indications:= Arm Pain • Deafness • Eye Disorders • Malaria• Mouth Dryness • Respiratory Disorders • Shoulder Pain • Thirst • Throat Infections • Throat Soreness • Wrist Joint Soft Tissue Diseases • Wrist Pain •

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies the triple warmer (particularly the lower warmer), heart opposite side (particularly the auricles), sexual organs, bladder (sphincter, prostate, urethra), spleen-pancreas, shoulder, pectoralis major, medial face of the arm, radial side of the forearm, palmar side of the hand, anterior part of lower limb Disperses the bladder (body), vessels, kidneys Dispersing acts in the opposite way; responds with abdomen-yinjiao (CV-7) Herald of the lower burner. Also responds with shimen (CV-5), herald of the entire triple warmer. Source of the triple warmer (excess or insufficiency). Weak potential: tonify; nerves excited or tight: disperse; cold or heat. Heart (auricles): tonifying can agitate nervously, causing some missed beats (corrected by dispersing the sympathetic system and fengshi (GB-20). Malaise and agitation; heat of the body without fever, fever without sweats, intermittent fever, flu. Lymphatic vessels? Sexual organs: blenorrhagia; men: epididymitis, prostatitis; women: displaced uterus? Spleen (right point); pancreas (left point): diabetes, dry mouth. Bladder: sphincter, prostate, urethra. Bladder: expulsor muscles, detrusor muscle. Kidney filtration ans excretion. Shoulder, pectoralis, medial arm, radial side of forearm, palmar side of hand. Wrist: pain, rheumatism; hand: flaccidity or contracture. Anteromedial face of the lower limb, medial half of the arch of the foot.
 * When tonified**:
 * Direct Effects:**
 * Opposite Effects:**

=Psycho-Spiritual Components= Source point, central communications resource, pool of Yang energies. Regulation of fire and heat, a pond that supplies the ditches and sluices, the Chinese call it the communication network. Literature about the triple heater is full of analogies about water and the distribution of resources, regulation of the drainage system and irrigation - water is able to communicate, to re-establish warmth, harmony and stillness, our first level of energy, our primary source level of communication. You **can do with this point what you can do with TW-1, TW-2, TW-3, but to a lesser degree. The source point deals with the first ripples of distress or strain**. Forbidden after 3rd month of pregnancy [JRW]

10 is a unique number expression - connection of god with the void. Zero as an integer is an indication that something is absent, not present. One is the number for the universal aspect, the unit of measure, the wholeness, or totality. Thus counting, which is the naming of that which is present begins with one. Geometry - which is the measure of forms (earth) is based on one and the portions or proportions of that one. Zero as the void is both the emptiness and the fullness of the circle (circumference). Paradoxically creation takes place within the void, and yet the void, like the circle that has no center, does not exist. The triple warmer channel is about form and transformation, and the circumference in particular. The mu point 13.5.314 and the shu point 7.22.147 confirm this association. The first three digits of [pi] are 3.14 and 22/7 is the three integer fraction for [pi]. Numerically this point is related to Shen Men 5.7.104 which is the earth point on the heart channel. [ALHIM]

"Yuan Pond" [David Ford]  