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Vegetables

ALFALFA SPROUTS

Nature: cool and slightly bitter

Actions: benefits spleen and stomach, dispels dampness, lubricates intestines

Conditions: swelling, constipation, skin lesions

ASPARAGUS

Nature: cooling

Actions: clears heat, detoxifies, promotes blood

            circulation

Conditions: constipation, cancer, hypertension,

            high blood cholesterol, arterioscler­osis

BAMBOO SHOOT

Nature: cool and sweet

Actions: strengthens the stomach, relieves food retention, resolves mucus, promotes diuresis, cuts or emulsifies fats, relieves alcohol intoxication

Conditions: diabetes, indigestion, stomach distention and fullness due to greasy food, diarrhea, dysentery, rectal prolapse, edema

BEETS

Nature: cool and sweet

Actions: nourishes blood, tonifies the heart, calms the spirit, lubricates

                 the intestines, cleanses the liver

Conditions: anemia, heart weakness, irritability, restlessness,

                  habitual constipation, herpes, constipation, liver intoxication,

                  from drugs or alcohol.

BELL PEPPER

Nature: slightly warm, pungent and sweet

Actions: strengthens stomach, improves appetite, promotes

         blood circulation, removes stagnant food, reduces

         swelling

Conditions: indigestion, decreased appetite, swelling,

            frostbite, food retention

BOK CHOY

Nature: cool, pungent and sweet

Actions: clears heat, lubricates the intestines, removes

                 stagnant food, quenches thirst, promotes digestion

Conditions: food retention,  constipation, indigestion,

            diabetes

BROCCOLI

Nature: cooling

Actions: clears heat, promotes diuresis, brightens

            eyes, aids summer heat problems. This

            vegetable is weak in action.

Conditions: conjunctivitis, nearsightedness,
            difficult urination

CABBAGE (RED OR GREEN)

Nature: cooling

Actions: clears heat, lubricates intestines, stops

           cough

Conditions: constipation, whooping cough, hot

            flashes, common colds, frostbite

CARROTS

Nature: cooling

Actions: clears heat, detoxifies, strengthens all

         organs, benefits the eyes, relieves

         measles, lubricates the intestines

CAULIFLOWER

Nature: cool and sweet

Actions: lubricates the intestines, strengthens spleen. This

              vegetable is weak in action

Conditions: constipation, weak digestion

CELERY

Nature: cooling

Actions: tonifies kidneys, stops bleeding, strengthens spleen and stomach

CHARD

Nature: neutral and sweet

Actions: clears heat, detoxifies, benefits blood

Conditions: dysentery, boils, skin lesions

CORN

Nature: cooling

Actions: stops bleeding, promotes diureses,

           strengthens gall bladder, lowers blood

           pressure, clears heat, detoxifies

Conditions: difficult urination, gallstones,

            hepatitis, jaundice, hypertension

CUCUMBER

Nature: cooling

Actions: clears heat, quenches thirst, relieves

           irritability, promotes diuresis

Conditions: edema of the extremities, jaundice,

            diarrhea, epilepsy

DAIKON RADISH

Nature: cool. pungent and sweet

Actions: removes stagnant food, moistens lungs, resolves

              mucus, quenches thirst, relieves alcohol intoxication

Conditions: bronchitis, sore throat, dry cough, coughing of

                  blood, painful urination, excess of mucus, alcohol

                  intoxication, food retention

KALE

Nature: warming

Actions: strengthens stomach, stops pains, promotes

              regrowth of tissue

Conditions: stomach or duodenal ulcers

MUSHROOMS

Nature: cooling

Actions: clears summer heat, lowers blood pressure,

         anti-tumor (especially the ling zhi

         "immortal mushrooms"), clears toxins,

         strengthens kidneys (particularly the

         Chinese black mushrooms)

Conditions: hypertension, summer irritability and

         other summer heat problems, tumors,

         high cholesterol levels

CHINESE CABBAGE (NAPA CABBAGE)

Nature: cold and sweet

Actions: clears heat, lubricates the intestines, promotes

              urination, diaphoretic

Conditions: irritability, restlessness, constipation, difficulty

                   urinating

PEAS

Nature: neutral

Actions: strengthens digestion, strengthens spleen

         and stomach, promotes diuresis, lubricates

         intestines

Conditions: indigestion, edema, constipation

POTATO

Nature: cooling

Actions: relieves ulcer pain, strengthens spleen,

         harmonizes stomach, tonifies chi, lubricates intestines,

       promotes diureses

Conditions: ulcers, constipation, eczema, skin

         lesions

PUMPKIN

Nature: cooling

Actions: kills worms, resolves dampness, reduces

         fever, relieves pain, stabilizes hyperactive fetus, stops dysentery,

         benefits diabetes

Conditions: dysentery, diabetes, ulcerations of the

         lower extremities, eczema, stomachache,

         the feeling of "steaming bones,"

         intestinal worms, antidote for opium

SEAWEED

Nature: cold

Conditions: swollen lymph glands, goiters, cough,

            lung abscess with thick, yellow,

            odoriferous mucus, edema, beriberi,

            fibroid tumors, nodules, lumps, cancer

SQUASH

Nature: cooling

Actions: clears heat, detoxifies, promotes diuresis,

           quenches thirst, relieves fidgetiness

Conditions: skin lesions, difficulty urinating,

            edema, summer heat, irritability,

            thirst

SWEET POTATO / YAM

Nature: cooling

Actions: strengthens spleen and stomach function,

            tonifies chi, clears heat, detoxifies,

            increases the production of milk

Conditions: bloody stools, diarrhea, constipation,

            jaundice, edema, ascites, night

            blindness, diabetes, breast abscess

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