Heart — vital member

Source of vital power

The heart is rendered as the Canon's principal vital member and the source or starting point of vital power in the Gruner translation. Its anatomical-left chest coordinate follows ordinary front-view orientation, while the visual position is an editorial normalization rather than a Canonical diagram.

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

Point 1 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 heart as a principal member and associates it with vital power or innate heat; 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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