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Chinese foods
Five Phases - Water
nutrition

definition

Water:

• grains and tubers: buckwheat

legumes: adzuki, black soybean, black turtle, kidney bean, pinto bean

vegetables: mushrooms- button, shiitake, nori, salsify, wakame, water chestnut

fruits: blackberry, black raspberry, blueberry, boysenberry, concord grape, cranberry, watermelon

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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