Wèi 胃 — Stomach channel-entry target
Stomach network affinity
A Stomach channel-entry designation indicates a substance relationship to the middle-jiao digestive network in clinical herbal classification. The upper-abdominal dot is a target-organ projection, not a surface stomach outline or a guarantee of pharmacological action.
Point 3 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.