Gān 肝 — Liver channel-entry target
Liver network affinity
The Liver channel-entry category indicates affinity with the Liver network and its classical roles in storing blood and maintaining free coursing. The anatomical-right upper-abdominal dot follows the front-view convention but remains a functional target projection rather than an anatomical map of herbal action.
Point 12 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.