Food/Taste Flashcards
1
Q
Lack of appetite
A
Spleen qi deficiency
2
Q
Always hungry
A
Heat in stomach
3
Q
Fullness after eating
A
Retention of food
4
Q
Bitter taste
A
Full heat pattern/liver or heart
5
Q
Bitter taste-liver fire
A
More or less constant
6
Q
Bitter taste-heart fire
A
Associated with insomnia/only in morning after sleepless night
7
Q
Sweet taste
A
Spleen deficiency or damp heat
8
Q
Sour taste
A
Retention of food in stomach/disharmony of liver n stomach
9
Q
Salty taste
A
Kidney yin deficiency
10
Q
Lack of taste
A
Spleen deficiency
11
Q
Pungent taste
A
Lung heat
12
Q
Sour vomit
A
Invasion of stomach by liver
13
Q
Bitter vomit
A
Liver/gb heat
14
Q
Clear watery vomit
A
Cold in stomach/retention of fluids
15
Q
Vomit after eating
A
Heat pattern
