Dǎn 膽 — Gallbladder channel-entry target
Gallbladder network affinity
A Gallbladder channel-entry designation indicates affinity with the Gallbladder network in materia-medica classification. The lateral upper-abdominal position is a broad target-organ projection and does not reproduce a gallbladder surface outline or channel path.
Point 11 of 12 in Gui Jing (歸經) — Meridian Tropism
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Shennong Bencao Jing (神農本草經) (primary_canonical)
The materia-medica corpus classifies substances by nature, function, and therapeutic destination; it is a classical source for tropism reasoning but does not present a modern twelve-meridian diagram.
Bensky, Clavey & Stöger, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica (secondary)
A contemporary materia-medica reference that records channel-entry and organ-affinity conventions used in clinical Chinese herbal practice.