Lettuce

Lettuce

lettuce

Chinese Name: 莴苣

Thermal Nature: Cooling

Flavor: Sweet, bitter

Organ Meridian: Stomach, small intestine

Properties: Promotes urination, increases breast milk supply, cools the body, helps with detoxification

Best Use For: Increasing urination frequency, boosting breast milk supply

Serving Per Day For One Person: 30 to 60g

Dietary Caution: People with weak stomach and spleen (loose stools) should avoid consuming lettuce. Consuming too much lettuce will cause blurry vision.

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution

Long Yellow Daylily

Long Yellow Daylily

long yellow daylily

Chinese Name: 黄花菜

Thermal Nature: Cooling

Flavor: Sweet

Organ Meridian: Liver, kidney

Properties: Cools the body, promotes urination, relieves discomfort in chest area, cools the blood, helps with detoxification

Best Use For: Improving sleep quality, treating short urination (strong yellowish color)

Serving Per Day For One Person: 15 to 30g

Dietary Caution: It is safer to consume dried long yellow daylily

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution, Dampness and heat body constitution, Yin deficiency body constitution

Water Spinach

Water Spinach

water spinach

Chinese Name: 空心菜

Thermal Nature: Cold

Flavor: Sweet

Organ Meridian: Stomach, intestine

Properties: Cools the body, promotes urination, helps with detoxification

Best Use For: Treating nose bleed, blood in stools and urine due to heat in blood

Serving Per Day For One Person: 60 to 120g

Dietary Caution: People with weak stomach and spleen (loose stools) should avoid consuming water spinach

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution, Dampness and heat body constitution

Spinach

Spinach

spinach

Chinese Name: 菠菜

Thermal Nature: Neutral

Flavor: Sweet

Organ Meridian: Liver, stomach, large intestine, small intestine

Properties: Nourishes the blood, stops bleeding, balances liver, moisturizes the body

Best Use For: Relieving headache, giddiness, pain in eye area due to liver heat

Dietary Caution: People with loose stools should limit consumption of spinach. People with kidney stones or inflammation must avoid consuming spinach. 

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution

Cabbage

Bok Choy

Bok Choy

bok choy

Chinese Name: 小白菜, 小油菜, 小青菜

Thermal Nature: Cooling

Flavor: Sweet

Organ Meridian: Lung, stomach, large intestine

Properties: Cools the body and encourages production of fluids, clears lungs and dissolves phlegm

Best Use For: Treating heat-type cough, relieving constipation and overeating

Dietary Caution: People with weak stomach and spleen (loose stools) should avoid consuming bok choy

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution

Chinese Cabbage

Chinese Cabbage

chinese cabbage

Chinese Name: 大白菜, 黄芽白

Thermal Nature: Neutral

Flavor: Sweet

Organ Meridian: Stomach

Properties: Aids digestion, protects stomach and promotes urination

Best Use For: Treating flu, long term cough and loss of voice

Serving Per Day For One Person: 100 to 500g

Dietary Caution: People with weak stomach and spleen should reduce consumption of chinese cabbage

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution

Amaranth

Amaranth

Amaranth

Chinese Name: 苋菜

Thermal Nature: Cold (Slight)

Flavor: Sweet

Organ Meridian: Large intestine, small intestine

Properties: Cools the body and helps with detoxification, relieves constipation and difficulty in urination

Best Use For: Relieving constipation, promoting urination

Serving Per Day For One Person: 30 to 60g

Dietary Caution: People with weak stomach and spleen (loose stools) should avoid consuming amaranth

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution

Water Celery

Water Celery

water celery

Chinese Name: 水芹

Thermal Nature: Cooling

Flavor: Sweet, pungent

Organ Meridian: Lung, liver, bladder

Properties: Cools the body, helps with detoxification, promotes urination, stops bleeding

Best Use For: Treating heat-type flu, difficulty in urination, blood in urination

Serving Per Day For One Person: 30 to 60g

Dietary Caution: People who have weak stomach and spleen (loose stools) should avoid consuming raw water celery juice

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution, Dampness and heat body constitution

Celery

Celery

celery

Chinese Name: 旱芹

Thermal Nature: Cooling

Flavor: Sweet, pungent, bitter (slight)

Organ Meridian: Liver, stomach, lung

Properties: Harmonizes the liver, cools the body, expels wind, promotes urination, stops bleeding, helps with detoxification

Best Use For: Relieving dizziness (due to heaty liver), headache due to wind and heat, pain during urination

Serving Per Day For One Person: 30 to 60g

Dietary Caution: People with loose stools (most of the time) should avoid consuming celery

Suitable For: Balanced body constitution, Dampness and heat body constitution