Banana-sweet in taste and cold in nature. Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening intestines. Suitable for constipation due to intestinal dryness; Modern used for habitual constipation. People with deficiency-cold diarrhea should not eat it.
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, enters the liver and stomach. 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.
Chinese cabbage (shepherd's purse, Chinese cabbage)-sweet taste, flat nature, into the gastrointestinal tract. Function: clear away heat and vexation, dredge the stomach. Suitable for constipation caused by stomach heat.
Amaranth-sweet and cool. Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting defecation. Suitable for damp-heat diarrhea, stomach fever, halitosis, gastrointestinal fever and constipation. People with deficiency-cold diarrhea should not eat it.
Water bamboo is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and belongs to lung and spleen meridians. Functions: clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving vexation and thirst, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels. Suitable for damp-heat diarrhea, stomach fever, halitosis, gastrointestinal fever and constipation. People with deficiency-cold diarrhea should not eat it, let alone eat it with honey.
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 in nature, 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, enters 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, enters 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.
Millet (millet)-sweet and salty, cool in nature, enters the kidney, spleen and stomach. Function: clearing away heat, harmonizing middle energizer, inducing diuresis and treating stranguria. Suitable for spleen deficiency, stomach heat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Not suitable for eating with almonds.
Mung beans-sweet, cool, warm heart and stomach meridians. Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and diuresis. Suitable for stomach heat pain, stomach heat halitosis, damp-heat diarrhea. People with deficiency-cold diarrhea should not eat it. Mung bean sprouts and mung beans.
Tofu is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and belongs to spleen, stomach and large intestine meridian. Function: clearing away heat and harmonizing middle energizer, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Suitable for stomach heat pain, stomach pain due to yang deficiency, constipation due to intestinal dryness. People with qi stagnation and abdominal distension should not eat.
Soybean-sweet and flat. Function, should avoid the same as tofu.
Wheat-sweet taste, cool nature, heart, spleen and kidney meridians. Function: Nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, clear away heat and quench thirst. Suitable for stomach heat, swelling and pain, damp-heat diarrhea.
Pueraria lobata (pueraria lobata)-sweet and pungent, flat in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian. Functions: clearing away heat and resolving muscle, strengthening yang and stopping diarrhea, dispersing rash, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is suitable for persistent diarrhea and is used for gastroptosis in modern times.
Wax gourd-Wax gourd is a cool vegetable, suitable for summer consumption. Its function is to promote fluid production to quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve summer heat. It should be eaten when it is hot and boring.