Shèn 腎 — Kidney channel-entry target
Kidney root network
The Kidney channel-entry category identifies affinity with the Kidney network, the classical root of essence, water metabolism, and constitutional functions. The lower-back/abdominal projection is deliberately schematic and must not be mistaken for a surface anatomy map.
Point 8 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.