Thai Sen Lines (Sib Sen)
Thai Sen Lines (Sib Sen) is a Thai / Traditional medicine — Ten Sen lines body system as transmitted through the lineage Thai traditional medicine describes sen as pathways used in massage and therapeutic bodywork, with Sib Sen naming the ten principal lines taught in Thai massage lineages. Wat Pho's medical inscriptions are a major documentary reference, while the complete front-view rendering below is a modern teaching projection rather than a single canonical diagram.. This page lists every point in the system with sourced placements and links to cross-tradition correspondences curated for The Body Spiritual.
Open in interactive explorerPrimary sources
- Wat Pho medical inscriptions and Thai massage diagrams (Wat Phra Chetuphon, Bangkok; restored inscription corpus, 19th-century presentation) — The Wat Pho inscription corpus documents Thai medical theory, massage instruction, and sen-line teaching; individual inscription panels and modern transcriptions differ in numbering and transliteration.
- Salguero, Traditional Thai Medicine (Columbia University Press, 2007) — Historical and ethnographic account of Thai medical lineages, including the sen framework and the transmission of Wat Pho knowledge.
- Modern Thai massage teaching manuals (Contemporary instructional syntheses, secondary reference) — Used for common English names and practical trajectory conventions; these manuals do not establish one universally fixed ten-line geometry.
Known lineage variants
- Thai schools vary in spelling, endpoints, and the exact number of sen named in introductory curricula; this file follows the common Sib Sen ten-line teaching frame.
- The full trajectories are represented by shared head, trunk, and foot waypoints so a front-view renderer can show a head-to-toe route. This is an editorial projection, not a claim that every line is a single visible anatomical structure.
- Anatomical right is x < 0.5 under the project convention. Bilateral routes are drawn as teaching midpoints where a pair would otherwise double the same visual path.
- The taxonomy currently has no Thai keyword. The proposed tradition string is retained honestly and should be routed under an added Thai/Southeast Asian keyword rather than silently relabeled Chinese or Japanese.
Related systems
No other systems share this tradition label.
Points
- Sib Sen head gateway — Shared route waypoint
- Sib Sen trunk gateway — Shared route waypoint
- Sib Sen foot gateway — Shared route waypoint
- Sen Sumana teaching anchor — Central breath route
- Sen Ittha teaching anchor — Anatomical-right route
- Sen Pingkhala teaching anchor — Anatomical-left route
- Sen Kalathari teaching anchor — Limb route
- Sen Sahatsarangsi teaching anchor — Limb route
- Sen Thawari teaching anchor — Lower-limb route
- Sen Lawusang teaching anchor — Lower-limb route
- Sen Sikini teaching anchor — Pelvic-to-foot route
- Sen Sahatsarangsi foot teaching anchor — Foot endpoint aid
Frequently asked
What is Sib Sen head gateway?
This waypoint marks the head end of the front-view Sib Sen teaching routes. It is a diagrammatic convergence point used to keep ten long pathways legible, not a separately named clinical point.
What is Sib Sen trunk gateway?
This waypoint marks the trunk portion through which the routes are visually continued from head toward the lower body. The shared location is a rendering aid because published sen diagrams use varied bends and lateral offsets.
What is Sib Sen foot gateway?
This waypoint marks the lower endpoint used by the front-view route sketches. It communicates the common head-to-toe teaching emphasis of Sib Sen while leaving precise sole and toe endpoints open across schools.
What is Sen Sumana teaching anchor?
Sumana is shown here as a central teaching anchor in the thoracic route family. The coordinate is an editorial front projection and should not be read as a biomedical nerve or vessel location.
What is Sen Ittha teaching anchor?
Ittha is placed on the anatomical-right side of the torso in this front-view projection. School diagrams differ on whether its upper course is shown close to the midline or farther lateral.
What is Sen Pingkhala teaching anchor?
Pingkhala is placed on the anatomical-left side to pair visually with Ittha. The bilateral pairing is a teaching convention and does not assert that every lineage uses identical mirror symmetry.
What is Sen Kalathari teaching anchor?
Kalathari is represented by a lateral limb waypoint in the route sketch. Its exact branches and treatment emphasis vary between Thai massage schools, so the broad uncertainty radius is intentional.
What is Sen Sahatsarangsi teaching anchor?
Sahatsarangsi is represented as the paired lateral limb route on the anatomical-left side. This coordinate is a visual waypoint for bodywork instruction, not a claim of a discrete anatomical tract.
What is Sen Thawari teaching anchor?
Thawari is placed in the lower-limb route family before the common foot gateway. Published schools vary in the line's knee, calf, and foot turns, which this broad marker deliberately leaves unresolved.
What is Sen Lawusang teaching anchor?
Lawusang is the paired lower-limb route marker on the anatomical-left side. It is included to preserve the ten-line teaching set while acknowledging that diagrams differ in lateral placement and endpoint detail.
What is Sen Sikini teaching anchor?
Sikini is represented near the pelvic-to-lower-limb transition in this teaching projection. The deep label signals a traditional energetic route convention, not an assertion about an internal anatomical channel.
What is Sen Sahatsarangsi foot teaching anchor?
This endpoint aid keeps a commonly taught lateral line visible before the shared foot gateway. It is an editorial endpoint marker because Sib Sen diagrams do not agree on one front-view toe coordinate.