A Chinese Medicine Geometrical Healing Handbook, 6 Rue Dulau, Arles (2025)

In this book the authors offer an innovative approach to chinese medicine called "tcm by the geometrical method" and based on a specific palpation of points, channels and body tissues in resonance with the energy system.

10/10/2025

TRIPLE WARMER AND CISTERNA CHYLI IN LYMPHATIC DISORDERS

The Triple Warmer has an irrigating function. It regulates the circulation of water (fluids) throughout the body and helps the Spleen to drain dampness.

Spleen and Triple Warmer disturbances are common in lymphatic circulatory problems.

OVERALL CONTROL OF THE TW DRAINAGE FUNCTION

Several possibilities, including:

Dermis transverse interrogation on the base of the 3rd metatarsal bone (photo 1)

CORRECTION

The therapist palpates through a surface vertical interrogation the TW points on the side blocked in the overall control and looks for the point which does not respond (TW 1, TW 2, TW 3 points are frequent).

He/she puts one hand on this point and with the other one looks for an area located slightly above and to the left of the umbilicus and connected to that point (photo 2). This area is located facing the cisterna chyli

Note:

The cisterna chyli is a dilated sac which receives lymph from the 2 lower limbs through both the right and left lumbar trunks and abdomen through the intestinal trunk. It is anterior to the bodies of L1 – L2 vertebrae, and the origin of the thoracic duct which goes up anterior to the bodies of thoracic vertebrae and receives lymph from the left side of thorax, then the left upper limb, the left side of the head and neck and ends at the junction of the left jugular and subclavian veins. The right lymphatic duct receives lymph from the right side of thorax, the right upper limb and the right side of head and neck, and ends at the junction of the right jugular and subclavian veins.

Observation has shown that even in lymphatic problems in the right upper limb, that correction often needs to be made. It creates a “suction effect”, like a pump, on the entire lymphatic network. It should be noted that Emile Vodder, in his manual lymphatic drainage technique, attached importance to the cisterna chyli.

The technique described above is the first step in an energy treatment aimed at draining lymph throughout the body. Another step is related to the Great Luo of Spleen, Da Bao. Nearly 80% of the lymphatic system is superficial and can be compared to a net surrounding the body, like Da Bao on the energy level. We will examine in detail Da Bao, the full treatment of drainage and the immune function of the lymphatic system in forthcoming publications.

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22/09/2025

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE ACCORDING TO THE GEOMETRICAL METHOD

Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine is based mainly on questioning, inspection of the tongue, complexion, nails, and pulse taking. From these elements, the interpretation of which is not entirely free from subjectivity, the therapist chooses to puncture certain points with needles, heat them, massage them, or even use cupping. However, the energy system is so complex that there may be a gap between the therapist's intellectual approach and the patient's actual energy state.

Our approach to Chinese medicine is entirely MANUAL, without needles, moxa, or pharmacopoeia. It is based on SPECIFIC PALPATION of points, meridians, and tissues of the human body in resonance with the energy system.

The ancient Chinese have described the energy system, but not how it materializes in the anatomy (bones, muscles, skin, viscera). Palpation of points, channels and tissues is an element of diagnosis as important as the examination of pulses and tongue or the questioning of the patient. It is too often neglected. Japanese acupuncture has particularly developed diagnosis by palpation – there is a tradition of blind acupuncturists and shiatsu practitioners in Japan. Energy should not be a vague concept that is difficult to grasp, BUT A REALITY THAT CAN BE TOUCHED WITH FINGERS.

The reading grid of tissues is a set of manual controls, each related to a specific therapeutic level. To “read” tissues, the therapist needs to know HOW TO PALPATE (active interrogation of tissues) and WHERE TO PALPATE (disturbances in the energy system are inscribed in a SPECIFIC way in the tissues – skin, muscles, bones, organs). Many examples have been given in previous publications.

Through the reading grid the therapist can determine where the body is in need at a given moment (at the point of the examination), which is the disturbed energetic function(s) (Liver, Kidney, Spleen…) and at which level (the Five Shu points, Luo points, Back-Shu/ Front-Mu points, Extraordinary Channels, emotional chain of Stomach, of the Gall bladder, chain of the Spleen, outer pathway of the Bladder channel, teeth, physical traumatisms...). That is most often the aim of acupuncture treatment. It is the body that shows where it is in need at a given moment and not the therapist who decides what it is good for the patient. The therapist doesn't have to worry about the choice of points; he/she doesn't decide anything, he/she just does what the tissues tell him/her.

Correction consists in giving the body the precise information that will enable it to correct itself, and for this, tissue palpation is essential. There is no tonification or sedation technique on points.

It's important to stress that in our approach, different practitioners on a given patient find the same disturbances and therefore make the same corrections (notion of reproducibility which is an essential criterion in science).

Our aim is not to replace traditional means of diagnosis (pulse taking, tongue examination, questioning...) or treatment, but provide therapists a new tool that will enable them to confirm, clarify or invalidate the therapeutic choice they have made using conventional tools. This approach can be used as a treatment method in its own right, or as an additional tool for therapists using more traditional techniques.

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Denys & Victor JACQUES

17/08/2025

THE GREAT LUO OF STOMACH (part 2)

Reminder: the way in which disturbances in the energy system, as described by the Chinese, manifest in the tissues (skin, muscles, bones, organs) specifically forms the basis of our approach to TCM. This enables the therapist to transmit the necessary information to the body so that it can correct itself.

We have seen that on the inner pathway of Urinary Bladder channel, the 8th thoracic vertebra, where there is no point, is related to Xu Li. The same applies to the outer pathway of the Urinary Bladder channel, at the level of the 8th rib. We remind you that the inner pathway of the UB channel is more related to the physiological aspect of energy functions, the physical level, whereas the outer pathway of the UB channel is more related to the psychological aspect, the emotional and mental levels. The energy blockage of the 8th rib is linked to disturbances deeper than the 8th thoracic vertebra. It is at the level of the brain, the main marrow. It's as if Xu Li channel were largely obstructed, preventing Shen energies from flowing down to the body.

OVERALL CONTROL

--> Surface vertical interrogation with the hand palm 1 handbreadth outside the base of the sternum. This control is not included in the 4 Luo control described in the previous paragraph. In the event of blockage, 2 secondary controls must be done:

a) Surface transverse interrogation on the dorsal side of the 5th toe.

b) Surface transverse interrogation on the plantar face of the interphalangeal joint of the big toe.

Dysfunction of the costotransverse articulation in the eighth rib (mobility is abnormal and on palpation, the area is dense, tense, touch-sensitive but not spontaneously).

CORRECTION

a) If the blockage is on the 5th toe, the therapist puts one hand on the 8th rib at the level of the outer pathway of the UB channel, and with the other, looks for the "rope" between his/her both hands at UB 7, UB 8 or UB 9. We find this blockage particularly in central nervous system disorders (Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease...).

b) If the blockage is on the big toe, the therapist puts one hand on the 8th rib at the level of the outer pathway of the UB channel, and with the other looks for the rope at DM 17, DM 18 or DM 19. We find this blockage particularly in deep psychological disturbances.

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