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The SANSHO includes three parts, the JOSHO, the CHUSHO, and the GESHO. The locations of these three parts are interpreted as JOSHO, above CV-15, CHUSHO, from the navel to CV-15 and GESHO, from the navel to the pubic bone. This method of representation, like the method of representing locations of the acupoints, is very superficial.
The actual source of the SANSHORON is in the chapter of the REISU concerning the digestion and absorption of nutrients, the EIESEIKAI chapter. In these writings the positions of the SANSHO are described as within the digestive organs. Thus we find a major discrepancy between the former and latter interpretations. I believe that the REISU, EIESEIKAI chapter negates the former explanations. First of all for your reference I'd like to explain just when this incorrect interpretation of the EIESEIKAI chapter came about, and who was responsible for it. The source of the information concerning the SANSHO is as was previously explained, in the above mentioned chapter of REISU, however, due to quotations of two Chinese scholars, Yojozen and Bagendai, of the 31st chapter of the NANGYO, these misinterpretations arose, and the practice of associating the SANSHO with treatment points, for example calling CV-17, JOSHO, arose. Through the ages, scholars have, by quoting the mistakes of these two early Chinese scholars, repeated the misinterpretation. The correct location of the SANSHO can be found by using the REISU, EIESEIKAI chapters as a base, and supporting it with the information found in the CHOI chapter and the HEIJIN ZEKKOKU chapters. Studying these writings we find that the JOSHO refers to the area from the mouth of the stomach to the lips, the CHUSHO, to the area from the mouth of the stomach to the inferior tip of the small intestine and the GESHO from the inferior tip of the small intestine to the anus.
I have above explained the correct locations of the SANSHO. I look forward to my colleagues' impartial evaluation of these reports.