The triple warmer is considered in Chinese medicine as the sixth bowel, related to the meridian of the master-heart. Composed of three parts, it is in charge of the balance of breaths and liquids in the body.

The triple heater, also called the Three Hearth Meridian or San Jiao – its Chinese name – is considered in traditional Chinese medicine as “the sixth bowel” in charge of the unity and balance of the body, explains Laboratoire Bimont, specializing in Chinese pharmacopoeia food supplements.

Opinions differ as to its anatomical structure. For some specialists, it is similar to an exchange network of the lymphatic system. For others, it is more of an autonomic nervous system.

As the name suggests, the triple heater is made up of three parts that work in synergy to ensure the proper functioning of the body’s vital organs:

• The upper warmer located in the rib cage and which includes the heart and lung;
• The middle warmer located between the diaphragm and the navel and which includes the spleen and stomach;
• The lower warmer located between the navel and the pubis and which includes the liver, kidneys, gray intestine, small intestine and bladder.

The triple heater meridian carries 23 points through which the energy flow travels. “It starts at the internal nail angle of the ring finger, little finger side. It then passes over the back of the hand and wrist, along the forearm between the ulna and the radius, up to the elbow, then through the posterior surface of the arm, reaching the shoulder up to the supraclavicular. . From there an internal branch is detached which penetrates into the chest, crosses the heart, the diaphragm and binds to the master meridian of the heart. Then the meridian continues its path passing behind the neck, bypassing the ear, arriving at the temple and behind the outer end of the eyebrow”, Details on his site Chinese Dietetics and tuina David Brun, graduate of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Nanjing.

The role of the triple heater is in particular to regulate the temperature of our body by ensuring the balance and the good circulation of the breaths and the liquids of the body. “This organ, without equivalent in Western representations of the body, has no precise location and does not correspond to any viscera: it is said to be ‘formless’”, explains Elisabeth Rochat de La Vallée, author of numerous translation works and presentation of Chinese medical texts.

The triple heater also has an action on the balance of the energy given by the Master-heart. The master heart meridian acts as a protective filter between the emotions and the heart. He carries 9 points. It starts in the middle of the chest at the pericardium and goes down through the diaphragm to join the different parts of the triple warmer. “Another branch follows the 4th intercostal space and emerges on the upper edge of the 5th rib a finger gap outside the nipple. It then reaches the armpit and runs along the internal face of the arm between the lung and heart meridian, arrives at the elbow, at the wrist, in the middle of the palm of the hand and ends at the end of the middle finger, external nail angle on the side of the radius ”, details with the help of a diagram the specialist David Brun.

Several symptoms can reveal an energetic disorder in the meridian of the master heart:

• Sore throat ;
• Difficulty swallowing;
• Shortness of breath;
• Chest pain;
• Palpitations ;
• Lack of libido, etc.

A Chinese medicine specialist can advise you on how to regain good energy communication between your different organs. An examination will allow him to detect and understand the reasons for these possible blockages and imbalances in energy flows.

The treatments offered by Chinese medicine are based on four practices to maintain health and maintain a balanced flow:

• L’acupuncture ;
• Chinese dietetics;
• The Tui Na massage;
• Energy exercises such as Qi-Gong and Tai-Chi.

Please note, if Chinese medicine has benefited since 2018 from a chapter in the latest International Classification of Diseases, a document updated by the World Health Organization (WHO), it is nevertheless important to specify that it does not currently do so. subject to no regulations and supervision.

Indeed, if the beneficial effects of this alternative medicine have already been proven on certain pathologies thanks to clinical trials (as for malaria) “This does not in any way mean that any statement can be accepted without a critical eye”, however, underlined in 2019 the Swedish professor Dan Larhammar, president of the group of experts of the European academies, in a press release from the academies of science and medicine of the European countries.