Water — fluid and reserve

water element; kidney/lower-abdomen target

Sowa Rigpa elemental teaching includes water as part of its embodied framework. The kidney/lower-abdomen location is a TARGET-ORGAN projection of a substance classification, not a claim that herbs map to skin coordinates.

Earth — digestive assimilationWater — fluid and reserveWater — fluid and reserveFire — transformationWind — movement and breathSpace — openness and integrationThree nyes pa — balance lens

Point 2 of 6 in Tibetan Herbal (Men-Tsee-Khang)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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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.

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