As the saying goes, "if you don't take medicine, you will break the doctor's leg." .

In the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, paying attention to dietary taboos is developed on the basis of homology of medicine and food. Like herbs, food has five flavors: cold, cool, warm, hot, flat, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Because of its unique taste, food can also prevent diseases. Then for some people or patients with special physique, eating habits will induce old diseases, or aggravate existing diseases and weaken the curative effect of drugs.

Cold: duck, goose, bamboo shoots, lettuce, fungus, eggplant, mung bean, radish, bitter gourd, cucumber, loofah, honey, okra, water bamboo, amaranth, tofu, bitter celery, wax gourd, cantaloupe, kiwi fruit, pear, mangosteen, persimmon, loquat, grapefruit and mangosteen.

Heat: onion, ginger, mustard, leek, pepper, pepper, garlic, pepper, onion, green pepper, coriander, Toona sinensis, mutton, dog meat, litchi, pineapple, longan, peach, cherry, jujube, carambola, mango, durian, white wine, yellow wine, frying and baking.

Gender: cauliflower, carrot, wheat, rye, black rice, jujube, potato, Chinese cabbage, wormwood, purple cabbage, edamame, taro, yam, Chinese cabbage, pea, oyster mushroom, mouth mill, soybean, black bean, corn, red bean, olive, sorghum rice, Chinese kale and glutinous rice.

Dermatosis: seafood such as fish, shrimp and crab, salt products, animal oil, cattle, mutton, goose, chicken, Toona sinensis, fennel, milk, eggs, bacon, broad beans, peas, bamboo shoots, irritating food, candy, fried food, cakes and mangoes.

Help damp heat: glutinous rice, pork, maltose, mango, pumpkin, pineapple, fried and roasted, etc.