Liver — nutritive member

Natural faculty and blood formation

The liver is placed on anatomical-right in the upper abdomen as the Canon's nutritive or vegetative principal member and as a major site in humoral physiology. The coordinate is a broad front-view anchor, not a statement that all nutritive activity is confined to the drawn ellipse.

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

Point 3 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, §§116–117 and §§118–123, describes the humours and identifies the liver as the principal member of the nutritive or vegetative faculties; 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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