Suitable drugs: gastrodia elata, nutmeg, codonopsis pilosula, yam, white peony root, etc.

Suitable food: rabbit, fish, chicken and fungus can clear away heat and nourish yin in summer.

Suitable drugs: Dendrobium, Bird's Nest, Rana chensinensis, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, etc.

Suitable food: old duck, fish, wax gourd, watermelon, lotus leaf, etc.

Protecting liver in summer

Suitable drugs: Lycium barbarum leaf, tiger tail wheel, milk root, rattan root and ginseng fruit.

Suitable food: chicken, pig small intestine and pig liver.

Suitable drugs: olive, anoectochilus roxburghii, Cynanchum komarovii, Commelina communis, Glehnia littoralis.

Nourishing yin and moistening lung in autumn

Suitable drugs: Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum odoratum, Rhizoma Phragmitis, Dendrobium, Chrysanthemum, Lily, etc.

Suitable food: soft-shelled turtle, fish, old duck, loach, celery, ginkgo, tremella, lotus root, pear, etc.

Supplementing qi and tonifying kidney in winter

Suitable drugs: Ginseng, Angelica sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Pseudostellariae, Cordyceps, Eucommiae Cortex, etc.

Suitable food: fish, poultry, black sesame, walnut, mutton, etc.