Brain — mental and sensory member

Sensation, movement, and mental faculties

The brain is shown at the head as the principal member associated in the Canon with mental faculties, sensation, and movement. The midline head marker is a readable front-view projection and does not imply that the Canon supplied a measured point or modern neurological map.

Heart — vital memberBrain — mental and sensory memberBrain — mental and sensory memberLiver — nutritive memberTestes — generative memberSemen — generative materialBones — structural member

Point 2 of 6 in Avicenna's Canon — Humours and Essential Members

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine), Book I (primary_canonical)

Book I, §§118–123, identifies the brain as a principal member associated with the mental faculties, sensation, and movement; the section does not provide the normalized coordinate used here.

Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine (scholarly_modern)

Historical study of Islamic medicine's Galenic and Arabic developments, including Avicenna's humoral framework and Canon reception; it supports historical context but does not supply this normalized body diagram.

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