Earth — digestive assimilation
earth element; spleen/upper-abdomen target
The Four Tantras use the five elements within their account of embodied constitution and medicine. The spleen/upper-abdomen location is a TARGET-ORGAN projection of the earth classification, not a Sowa Rigpa anatomical surface map.
Point 1 of 6 in Tibetan Herbal (Men-Tsee-Khang)
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
rGyud bzhi (Four Tantras) (primary_canonical)
The Root, Explanatory, Instructional, and Subsequent Tantras provide the canonical Sowa Rigpa framework of body, elements, nyes pa, and materia medica; see the Explanatory Tantra chapters on elements and body constitution, with numbering varying by recension.
Men-Tsee-Khang, Tibetan medicine teaching materials (secondary)
Contemporary Men-Tsee-Khang materials explain Sowa Rigpa diagnosis, pharmacology, and elemental/humoral frameworks for students and practitioners; they are used here to contextualise, not to invent an anatomical atlas.
Franz H. M. P. G. et al., “Traditional Tibetan medicine: a review of the literature” (scholarly_modern)
Modern scholarship describes Sowa Rigpa theory and medicines while noting lineage, translation, and evidence limits; it does not warrant a one-to-one surface map.