Rakta dhātu — blood proxy

Second tissue / life-bearing red tissue

Rakta dhātu is shown beside the upper-abdominal liver region because Ayurvedic teaching commonly uses the liver as a formative and target-organ reference for blood. The point is a target-organ projection of a substance/tissue category, not a claim that rakta is anatomically stored at this surface coordinate.

Rasa dhātu — nutritive fluid proxyRakta dhātu — blood proxyRakta dhātu — blood proxyMāṃsa dhātu — muscle proxyMeda dhātu — adipose proxyAsthi dhātu — bone proxyMajjā dhātu — marrow and neural proxyŚukra dhātu — reproductive proxy

Point 2 of 7 in Dravyaguṇa — Seven Dhātu Affinity

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Caraka Saṃhitā (primary_canonical)

Caraka's dhātu discussions distinguish rakta as the blood tissue and discuss its nourishment after rasa; the plotted liver-side proxy is not a canonical coordinate.

Vasant Lad, Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing (secondary)

Modern explanatory synthesis for rakta dhātu and its relationship to the liver and circulating vitality; used only to guide the target-organ proxy.

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