Green nourishes liver, red nourishes heart, yellow nourishes spleen and stomach, white nourishes lung and black nourishes kidney.
Common green foods for nourishing liver are mung beans, spinach, broccoli, cucumber, loofah, celery, leek, green pepper, Artemisia, bamboo shoots, cabbage, rape, mung beans, beans, water spinach, auricularia auricula, green vegetables, radish fungus, vegetables, bitter gourd and fruits.
Broccoli, spinach, cucumber, celery, beans, lettuce, leek, fungus,
Chrysanthemum, green pepper, bitter gourd, shepherd's purse.
Yellow is good for the spleen and stomach.
Common yellow foods-soybean, cowseed, sweet potato, coix seed, leek, pumpkin, apple, egg yolk, millet, corn, etc.
Soybean, leek, coix seed, pumpkin, millet, egg yolk, burdock, corn, apple.
Red casing
Common red foods-red beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, red peppers, red dates, tomatoes, hawthorn, Toona sinensis, strawberries and so on.
Red beans, tomatoes, red dates, sweet potatoes, red peppers, hawthorn, carrots, Toona sinensis,
strawberry
White moistening lung
Common white foods-white beans, white gourd, pear, white radish, tremella, lotus root, lily, sunflower white, lotus root, rice flour, tofu, cauliflower, bamboo shoots, yam, cold potato, etc.
White bean, white radish, lily, yam, white gourd, lotus root, tofu, cold potato, tremella, water bamboo, cauliflower and pear.
Black tonifying kidney
Common black foods-black beans, black rice, black sesame seeds, black fungus, walnuts, seaweed and kelp.
Soybean, leek, pumpkin, coix seed, burdock, corn.