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Chinese foods
Five Phases - Earth
nutrition
definition
Earth:
grains and tubers: millet, sweet potato/yam
legumes: chickpea
vegetables: bamboo shoot, calabash, chard, collards, crookneck squash, eggplant, gourd, jerusalem artichoke, kudzu, lamb's quarter, mallow, parsnip, pumpkin, rutabaga, spaghetti squash, spinach, squash-winter, acorn, butternut, hokkaido, hubbard, sweet corn on cob, tapioca/manioc
fruits: apple-sweet, banana, breadfruit, cantaloupe, casaba, coconut, coconut milk, date, fig, grape-sweet, honeydew, kumquat, mango, mulberry, muskmelon, orange-sweet, papaya, pineapple, plantain, prune, raisin, sweet cherry, tangelo, tangerine
Garvy, 1985, Chart 5, pp. 15-16
see also: "Wu-Xing: the Five Phases/Elements" in the Diagnosis section of the Materia Medica
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