Course of the Channels and Point Qualifications
### Pericardium Channel (Hand-Jueyin)
Course: The Pericardium Channel starts internally in the chest and emerges at the pericardium. An internal branch from the pericardium connects with the Upper, Middle, and Lower Burner, it passes to CV 17, through the diaphragm to CV 12, to terminate in the Lower Burner at CV 07. The Pericardium Channel starts its external Channel emerging at PC 01, located 1 cun lateral to the nipple. From PC 01, the Pericardium Channel descends along the pectoralis major muscle to the medial aspect of the upper arm. Between the heads of the biceps brachii muscle, it descends to the traverse cubital crease. From the cubital crease it passes through the medial aspect of the forearm between the muscles flexor carpi radialis and palmaris longus to the middle of the traverse carpal crease, the wrist. It proceeds over the palm of the hand between the third and fourth metacarpal bone and along the middle finger. The Pericardium Channel terminates at the tip of the middle finger at PC 09.
##### Point Qualifications:

PC 03 | Quze | He-Sea Point, Water Point
PC 04 | Ximen | Xi-Cleft Point
PC 05 | Jianshi | Jing-River Point, Metal Point
PC 06 | Neiguan | Confluent Point of the Yin Wei Mai; Luo-Connecting Point
PC 07 | Daling | Shu-Stream Point, Earth Point; Yuan-Source Point
PC 08 | Laogong | Ying-Spring Point, Fire Point
PC 09 | Zhongchong | Jing-Well Point, Wood Point
BL 14 | Jueyinshu | Back-Shu Point of the Pericardium
CV 17 | Tanzhong | Front-Mu Alarm Point of the Pericardium