Triple Energizer Channel
Arm Meeting
臑会Nào HuìAnatomical location
On the posterolateral aspect of the arm, 3 cun below TE14 (Jianliao), at the posterior border of the deltoid.
Main function
Benefits the shoulder and arm, eliminates Wind-Dampness, relieves pain.
Therapeutic indications
- Shoulder pain
- neck stiffness
- arm pain
- paralysis of the arm
- goiter
- swelling of the neck
- shoulder and arm pain
- scrofula
- eye pain
- hyperthyroidism
Name and classical tradition
Naohui, 臑会, is the “meeting of the arm.” 臑 is the fleshy part of the arm, the region of the triceps and humerus, the same character found in LI14, Binao, and SI10, Naoshu; 会 (會) is the meeting. The name alludes to a meeting of channels at this location. The first work to record it is the Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing (Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion).
Several sources agree that it is a crossing point of the Triple Energizer with the Yang Wei Mai. The compendia give it two alternative names consistent with that function: 臑髎, “hollow of the arm,” and 臑交, “crossing of the arm.”
