Food taste

Question 1

bitter taste(constant)

Answer 1

Excessive heat in liver

Question 2

Bitter taste in the morning, insomnia

Answer 2

Excess heat in the heart

Question 3

Sweet taste

Answer 4

spleen, deficiency, or damp-heat

Question 5

Sour taste

Answer 5

Food retention or liver and stomach disharmony

Question 6

Salty taste

Answer 6

Kidney Yin deficiency

Question 7

Pungent taste

Answer 7

Lung heat

Question 8

Lack of taste

Answer 8

Spleen deficiency

Question 9

Sour vomiting

Answer 9

Liver invading stomach

Question 10

Bitter vomiting

Answer 10

Liver and gallbladder heat

Question 11

Clear, watery, vomiting

Answer 11

cold in the stomach with retention of fluids

Question 12

vomiting soon after eating

Answer 12

Heat pattern

Question 13

sudden vomiting with loud noise

Answer 13

Excess

Question 14

Vomiting that is slow in coming with weak noise

Answer 14

Deficiency

Question 15

thirst, with desire to drink large amounts of cold water

Answer 15

Excess heat

Question 16

Thirst for desired to sift liquid slowly, or sip warm liquids

Answer 16

Yin deficiency ( stomach and kidney)

Question 17

Absence of thirst

Answer 17

Cold pattern( sp/stm)

Question 18

thirst, but no desire to drink

Answer 18

damp-heat