Xiǎocháng 小腸 — Small Intestine channel-entry target
Small-intestine network affinity
The Small Intestine channel-entry category belongs to the paired Heart–Small Intestine functional network in TCM classification. The point is offset in the torso as an editorial target projection, not a claim about an anatomical surface channel.
Point 6 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.