Comparative Analysis of Sympathetic and Triple Warmer Functions
To fully appreciate the role of the San Jiao (Triple Warmer) in TCM and its parallels with the sympathetic nervous system, we must delve deeper into a comparative analysis. George Soulié de Morant’s insights provide a rich foundation for this comparison.
The beauty of reconsidering the language of early TCM practitioners lies in how it described the observed effects in the qualitative language of the time. I was fortunate to study for many years in my TJM cohort under Masakazu Ikeda sensei and Edward Obaidey sensei, who emphasized that the classics should be read with the understanding that these are conceptual rather than literal descriptions.
