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Chinese foods
Five Phases - Wood
nutrition
definition
Wood:
grains and tubers: barley, oats, rye, triticale, wheat
legumes: blackeye peas, green lentils, lima beans, mung beans, peanuts, split peas
vegetables: artichoke-globe, green bell pepper, broccoli, carrot, knotweed, lettuce - bibb, Boston, romaine, parsley, green pea, rhubarb, snap bean, squash - pattipan, zucchini, string bean
fruits: acerola cherry, avocado, sour currant, crab apple, grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange: sour, plum, pomegranate, quince, scuppernon, sour cherry
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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