Watermelon: sweet taste, cold nature, heart meridian, stomach meridian and bladder meridian. Function: clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, relieving vexation and thirst, and inducing diuresis. Suitable for heartburn pain, stomach heat and halitosis. Avoid eating with deficiency-cold syndrome and dampness syndrome.
Celery: sweet, bitter, cool, liver and stomach meridians entered. Functions: calming the liver, clearing away heat, expelling wind and inducing diuresis. It is suitable for constipation caused by stagnation of liver and stomach, stomachache, stomach heat, halitosis and stomach heat. People with deficiency cold and diarrhea should not eat it.
Cabbage: sweet, flat in nature, enters the gastrointestinal tract. Function: clear away heat and vexation, dredge the stomach. Suitable for constipation caused by stomach heat.
Bitter gourd: bitter taste, cold nature, heart, spleen and stomach meridians. Function: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and improving eyesight. Suitable for damp-heat diarrhea, stomach heat, halitosis and stomach heat pain. Avoid eating due to deficiency-cold syndrome.
Cucumber: sweet, cool, spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians entered. Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials and inducing diuresis. Suitable for diarrhea due to stomach heat, halitosis and damp heat. Avoid eating due to deficiency-cold syndrome; Not suitable for eating with white radish and celery.
Loquat: sweet and sour, cool in nature, entering the lung and liver meridians. Function: moistening lung to relieve cough, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, lowering qi and stopping vomiting. It is suitable for stomach heat, halitosis and vomiting due to stomach heat. Avoid diet with dampness syndrome and deficiency-cold syndrome.
Pear: sweet and sour, cool in nature, entering the lungs and stomach. Function: promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for hematemesis due to stomach heat, halitosis due to stomach heat and constipation due to intestinal dryness. Avoid eating due to deficiency-cold syndrome.