The focus of the depiction shifts in this series from the head to the torso, but the digestive system as such is not foregrounded: Digestion is seen as having disruptive character. If an adept does not fast before exercises for some time—a noisy belly, sensations of fullness, or pain are all unwanted sensations during meditative excercises. But saliva is swallowed during late nightly hours; it brings fluids to the abdomen, and one visualises the ‘stomach spirit’ (D | 11) as receiving these nourishing saps.

The inner sceneries reveal elements of postulated inner circulation (the ‘marrow way’ C | 13 and D | 8), the male urogenital system (e.g. ‘urinary bladder’ D | 17, ‘jade spring’ D | 19, or the ‘drinking turtle’ C | 19 and D | 22), and the alchemical body of one’s ‘inner scenery’—like the ‘child’ (D | 13), or the ‘lower cinnabar field’ (D | 16).

The body map is thus made ready to familiarise oneself by mere-exposure effect with the details of one’s inner sceneries before one enters meditative states of consciousness.