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Chinese foods
Five Phases - Metal
nutrition

definition

Metal:

grains and tubers: rice, sweet rice, taro potato, white potato

legumes: castor, great northern bean, navy bean, soybean

vegetables: cabbage, capers, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, chili-red, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, daikon, garlic, ginger, iceberg lettuce, kohlrabi, leeks, lotus root, mustard green, onion, radish, rape, shallot, turnip, turnip green, watercress

fruit: peach, pear

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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