Xián 鹹 — Salty → Kidney

Water phase / Kidney affinity

Salty is paired with the Kidney and Water phase in the Neijing correspondence tables. The lower-trunk point shows the classical target-organ association with a wide uncertainty radius; it is not a claim that salt travels to or treats the kidneys in a biomedical sense.

Suān 酸 — Sour → LiverKǔ 苦 — Bitter → HeartGān 甘 — Sweet → SpleenXīn 辛 — Pungent → LungXián 鹹 — Salty → KidneyXián 鹹 — Salty → Kidney

Point 5 of 5 in Five Flavors → Five-Zang Organ Tropism

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Huangdi Neijing · Suwen (黃帝內經素問) (primary_canonical)

Suwen ch. 23 (Xuanming wuqi) discusses the five qi and five flavors in relation to the zang; ch. 5 supplies the wider five-phase correspondence frame. This is the canonical basis for the flavor-to-organ affinities represented here.

Bensky, Clavey & Stöger, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica (secondary)

The materia-medica reference explains how taste and channel-entry language is used in modern clinical classification; the five-flavor organ set remains a classical correspondence, not an anatomical taste map.

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