Herbs 1 Five Tastes
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- Scatters
- Acrid
- Moves Qi and blood
- Acrid
- breaks up accumulations
- Acrid
- Upbears (Yang)
- Acrid, Sweet
- Used for exterior disorders and obstruction of qi and blood.
- Acrid
- Supplements and augments or boosts
- Sweet
- Harmonizes the middle
- Sweet
- Relieves pain and spasms
- Sweet
- Generates fluids
- Sweet
- Used for various deficient conditions.
- Sweet
- Relieves pain and spasms.
- Sweet
- Astringes
- Sour
- Prevents Loss of Qi and fluids
- Sour
- Secures astriction (bind or constrain)and stops perspiration
- Sour
- Used for vacuity perspiration
- Sour
- Vacuity diarrhea
- Sour
- Downbearing
- Sour, Bitter, Salty
- Draining
- Bitter
- Drying
- Bitter
- Opens Channels
- Bitter
- harmonizing
- Bitter
- Draining, drying, descending (not necessarily all three)
- Bitter
- Used for bound stool due to binding of heat.
- Bitter
- Damp Conditions
- Bitter
- Softens accumulations
- Salty
- Purges (LI)
- Salty
- Laxative
- Salty
- Similar usage to the sour flavor
- Astringent
- Stores or retains essence
- Astringent
- Stops diarrhea
- Astringent
- Stops hemorrhage
- Astringent
- Puckers but doesn't taste sour.
- Astringent
- Disencumbers (unburden) the spleen and transforms dampness.
- Aromatic
- Opens the orifices (not really a taste)
- Aromatic
- Disinhibits (not hold back) dampness
- Bland
- Percolates dampness (urethra)
- Bland
- Used for edema
- Bland
- Removes dampness through urination.
- Bland
- Both disperse but one breaks down bigger things.
- Acrid and aromatic. Aromatic breaks down bigger things.
- Used to stop something from leaking. (If it belongs and you need to keep it.)
- Sour
- Pungeant and Spicy =
- Acrid
- Licorice =
- Sweet
- Lung likes:
- Acrid
- Spleen likes:
- Sweet
- Liver likes:
- Sour
- Heart likes:
- Bitter
- Kidney likes:
- Salty