Taste

Question 1

Sour precautions

Answer 1

Astringent holds fluid so makes phlegm worse
Goes to nerves and can upset liver use sparingly in chronic pain sufferers
Sour goes to liver. If sp is disease do not eat sour

Question 2

Bitter functions

Answer 2

Clears heat, sedated and hardens
Clears damp heat and subdues rebelliously qi
Goes to heart and bones

Question 3

Bitter precautions

Answer 3

Injures sp
Injures yin
Goes to bones, don’t use in xs bone disease
Goes to heart p, don’t use in LU disease

Question 4

Sweet functions

Answer 4

Tonify, balance, moderate
Stop pain
Goes to muscles and spleen

Question 5

Sweet precautions

Answer 5

Creates damp, weakens muscles, if kidney is diseased don’t eat sweet foods

Question 6

Pungent, acrid, spicy functions

Answer 6

Scatters
Expels pathogens
Goes to LU

Question 7

Pungent precautions

Answer 7

Injures yin and qi avoid in qi xu

If liver is diseased dint eat

Question 8

Salty functions

Answer 8

Flows downward, softens hardness
Treats constipation and swelling
Goes to kidney

Question 9

Salty precautions

Answer 9

Dries blood, avoid in blood xu

If heart is diseased do not eat salty

Question 10

Sour functions

Answer 10

Gen fluid and yin
Astringent can control sweat and diarrhea,
Goes to nerves