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Channel: TB, hand lesser yáng (shào yáng) triple burner channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the posterior aspect of the forearm, 3 cùn proximal to the wrist, about 0.5 cùn lateral to TB-6, on the radial side of the ulna.

Classical location: In the space [between the bones] three cùn behind the wrist. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The posterior interosseous artery and vein. The posterior and medial antebrachial cutaneous nerves; deeper, the posterior and anterior interosseous nerves.

Action: Clears and drains evil heat in the triple burner; soothes the liver and rectifies qì.

Modern indications: Deafness; epilepsy; impediment pain (bì tòng) in the upper limbs.

Classical indications: Pain in the skin and flesh; deafness.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒1.0 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒7 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

Point groups: Cleft (xī) point of the triple burner channel.

Point name meaning:

• 会 huì: to converge, to gather, to meet
• 宗 zōng: a meeting of officials; a suzerain; ancestor; clan

Both 会 (huì) and 宗 (zōng) mean to meet or gather. This point is the cleft (xī) point of the triple burner channel, which is where triple burner qì collects.

Some sources invoke the meaning of suzerain for 宗 (zōng). Just as a suzerainty is a part of a country yet governs from afar, this point is located off the direct line of the triple burner channel, yet is still an important point.

The triple burner is associated with fire and, by extension, summer. The meeting (会 huì) of officials during the summer in ancient China was termed 宗 (zōng). This point may be named after this summertime gathering because it is also a gathering of fire, i.e., the cleft (xī) point of the fire channel. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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