Chinese Diet Therapy Food Database

Searching for chinese medicinal food

Utilise the filters to narrow down your search for foods according to Chinese nutrition therapy:

Using more than one dropdown: The search will show foods that match ALL the choices you make. It’s like finding foods that fit into all the groups you picked.
Picking multiple options in one dropdown: The search will show foods that match ANY of the choices in that dropdown. It’s like making a list of foods that fit at least one of the groups you picked.

Title	Food-type	Temperature	Flavour	Support	Balance	Organ	Season
Watermelon	Fruit	Cold	Sweet	Yin	Heat, Water	Bladder, Heart, Stomach	Summer
Tangerine	Fruit	Cool	Sour, Sweet		Qi Stagnation	Lung, Stomach	Winter
Strawberry	Fruit	Cool	Sour, Sweet			Kidney, Liver, Lung, Spleen	Summer
Rhubarb	Fruit	Cold	Bitter		Blood Stasis, Heat, Toxins	Large Intestine	Spring, Summer
Raspberry	Fruit	Neutral	Sour, Sweet	Yang		Kidney, Liver	Autumn(Fall), Summer
Quince	Fruit	Warm	Sour			Liver, Spleen	Autumn(Fall)
Pomegranate	Fruit	Neutral	Sour, Sweet	Yin		Bladder	Autumn(Fall)
Plum	Fruit	Neutral	Sour, Sweet				Summer
Pineapple	Fruit	Neutral	Sour, Sweet	Yin			Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer, Winter
Pear	Fruit	Cool	Sour, Sweet	Yin	Heat, Phlegm	Lung, Stomach	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer
Peach	Fruit	Warm	Sour, Sweet		Blood Stasis, Cold, Qi Stagnation	Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Stomach	Summer
Papaya	Fruit	Neutral	Bitter, Sweet		Damp	Lung, Stomach	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer, Winter
Orange	Fruit	Cool	Sour, Sweet			Liver	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer, Winter
Melon	Fruit	Cold	Sweet				Summer
Mango	Fruit	Cold	Sour, Sweet	Yin		Stomach	Summer
Lychee	Fruit	Warm	Sour, Sweet		Blood Stasis, Cold	Liver	Summer
Longan	Fruit	Warm	Sweet	Blood, Qi	Blood Stasis, Cold	Heart, Spleen	Summer
Lemon/Lime	Fruit	Cold	Sour	Yin	Blood Stasis, Heat, Qi Stagnation, Toxins	Gall Bladder, Kidney, Large Intestine, Liver, Spleen	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer, Winter
Grapefruit	Fruit	Cold	Sour, Sweet		Heat, Phlegm, Qi Stagnation		Winter
Grape	Fruit	Neutral	Sour, Sweet	Blood, Qi		Kidney, Liver, Lung, Spleen	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer
Fig	Fruit	Neutral	Sweet	Blood, Qi	Heat, Toxins	Large Intestine, Lung, Spleen	Autumn(Fall), Summer
Date	Fruit	Warm	Sweet	Blood, Qi	Heat, Toxins	Liver, Lung, Spleen	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer, Winter
Cranberry	Fruit	Cold	Sour, Sweet		Damp, Heat	Bladder, Kidney, Large Intestine	Autumn(Fall)
Coconut	Fruit	Neutral	Sweet	Qi			Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer, Winter
Cherry	Fruit	Warm	Sweet	Qi	Blood Stasis, Cold	Heart, Spleen, Stomach	Spring, Summer
Blueberry	Fruit	Cool	Sour		Damp, Heat, Toxins	Lung, Spleen, Stomach	Autumn(Fall), Summer
Blackberry	Fruit	Warm	Sour, Sweet			Kidney, Liver	Autumn(Fall), Summer
Banana	Fruit	Cold	Sweet	Yin	Heat, Toxins	Large Intestine, Lung	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer, Winter
Avocado	Fruit	Cool	Sweet	Blood, Yin		Large Intestine, Liver, Lung, Spleen	Autumn(Fall), Spring, Summer
Apricot	Fruit	Neutral	Sour, Sweet	Blood, Yin		Lung	Summer
Apple	Fruit	Cool	Sour, Sweet	Yin	Heat	Heart, Lung, Stomach	Spring, Summer

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