Name
天井
- Tian Jing
- Heaven's Well
- Celestial Well
Location
In the hollow 1 CUN above the tip of the elbow, with the elbow flexed
Nature
- He-Sea Point
- Earth Point, Child (Drainage)
Functions
- Resolves Phlegm in adenopathy: inflamed neck and/or axillary lymph nodes, when the nodes are not inflamed by infection but by an emotional blockage. The Triple Burner is the escape valve of the Liver.
- Disperses internal accumulations.
- Sore throat, ear pain, eye pain. Throat lump. Goiter.
- Pain with oppression of the chest, upper back and cervicals, torticollis
- Local point for elbow and shoulder pain, inability to raise the shoulder.
- Loss of strength in the fingers.
- Migraine, headache
- Calms the Shen: depressive mood, apathy, mood changes, manic behavior
- Epilepsy
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3 CUN
- Moxibustion: the elbow tip can be moxabustioned