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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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