Five Flavors

Question 0

Bitter flavor enters this part of the body

Answer 0

Heart and small intestine

Question 1

Sour flavors enter this part of the body

Answer 1

Liver and gallbladder

Question 2

The sweet flavor enters this part of the body

Answer 2

Spleen, pancreas, and stomach

Question 3

The pungent flavor enters this part of the body

Answer 3

Lungs and large intestines

Question 4

The salty flavor enters this part of the body

Answer 4

Kidneys and bladder

Question 5

What are the uses of the pungent flavor?

Answer 5

Stimulates digestion, disperses mucus caused by highly mucous forming foods such as dairy products and meats, and offers protection against mucus conditions such as the common cold

Question 6

What season does the pungent flavor attune a person to?

Answer 6

Spring

Question 7

What type of individual is most benefited by the pungent flavor?

Answer 7

Those who are sluggish, dull, lethargic, or excessively heavy benefit from the pungent flavor.

Question 8

What are the uses of the salty flavor?

Answer 8

The salty flavor may be increased in the diet to soften lumps for example hard and lymph nodes, cataracts, and other knottings of the muscles and glands. Salt is used internally for constipation, abdominal swelling and pain, and externally for impure blood conditions with heat signs such as skin discharges, sore throat.

Question 9

What individuals are most benefited by the salty flavor?

Answer 9

Foods with salty flavor noise and calm the thin, dry, nervous person

Question 10

What are examples of foods with the salt flavor?

Answer 10

Salt, seaweed, soy sauce, miso, pickles

Question 11

What are examples of foods with the pungent flavor?

Answer 11

Spearmint rosemary scallions garlic onion cinnamon cloves black pepper hot pepper cayenne fennel dill mustard greens basil nutmeg

Peppermint radish turnup horseradish ginger

Question 12

What are uses for the sour flavor?

Answer 12

Used in treatment of urinary dripping, excess perspiration, hemorrhage, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, uterine prolapse

Question 13

Which organ is the sour flavor most active in?

Answer 13

The liver, where it counteracts the effects of Rich, greasy food, functioning as a solvent and breaking down fats and protein.

Sour this helps digest minerals for improved a simulation and can help strengthen lungs.

Question 14

Which season is the sour flavor attuned to?

Answer 14

The fall, the time of gathering and harvesting.

Question 15

Which individuals are most benefited by the sour flavor?

Answer 15

Sour flavor is collect and hold together the dispersed capriciously changing personality.

Sour foods do not occur frequently enough in the modern diet.

Question 16

What are examples of sour foods?

Answer 16

Sour and sweet: Apple blackberry cheese grape mango olive tomato yogurt

Sour and bitter: vinegar
Sour and pungent: leek

Sour: lemon lime pickles

Question 17

What are the uses of the bitter flavor?

Answer 17

Helpful for inflammations, infections, and overly moist, damp conditions
Also used for constipation.

Question 18

Which organ does the bitter flavor closely identify?

Answer 18

The heart where it clears heat and cleans arteries of damp mucoid deposits of cholesterol and fats, in general tending to lower blood pressure

The bitter flavor also clear stagnancy and cools heat in the liver normally caused by overconsumption of rich foods

The kidneys and lungs are said to be a Tonna fied and vitalized by bitter flavors

Question 19

Which individuals are most benefited by the bitter flavor?

Answer 19

Slow, overweight, lethargy, watery individuals. Also overheated, aggressive person’s are cooled by the bitter flavor

Question 20

What are examples of foods with bitter flavor?

Answer 20

Bitter: alfalfa, Romain lettuce, Rye

Bitter and sweet: asparagus celery lettuce papaya quinoa

Bitter and pungent: citrus peel scallion radish leaf turnup white pepper

Bitter and sour: vinegar

Question 21

What are the uses of the sweet flavor?

Answer 21

It energizes yet relaxes the body, nerves, and brain. It is used to reduce the harsh taste of bitter foods and retard acute disease symptoms.
Most Darien animal products are considered sweet, and these may be necessary for extreme deficiencies.

Question 22

Which organ does the sweet flavor support?

Answer 22

The sweet flavor enters and strengthens the spleen, pancreas and is said to be an appropriate food for the liver since it soothes aggressive liver emotions such as anger and impatience.
Sweet food also moistens dry conditions of the Longs and slows an overactive heart and mind.

Question 23

Which season does the sweet flavor attuned to?

Answer 23

The sweet flavor is appropriate in every season and especially desirable for harmony at the time of the equinoxes and solstices as well as during the late summer and junction between the summer and fall

Question 24

Individuals who are most benefited from the sweet flavor:

Answer 24

Dry, cold, nervous, send, week, scattered person.

The aggressive person benefits from the retarding effect of the sweet flavor.

Question 25

What are examples of foods with the sweet flavor?

Answer 25

Fruits: apple apricot cherry date fig grape papaya strawberry tomato

Vegetables: beat cabbage carrots celery cucumber lettuce potato squash Sweet potato yam

Nuts and seeds: almond Chestnut coconut sesame seed sunflower seed walnut

Sweeteners: barley malt, honey, molasses, Rice syrup, whole sugar