Dietary supplementation is better than medicinal supplementation. Do you know the five flavors corresponding to the five organs?

The medical art of ancient China has continued to this day and is known to the world as "Traditional Chinese Medicine." What Traditional Chinese Medicine advocates is not taking medicine, but dietary supplementation. There is a saying: "Dietary supplementation is better than medicinal supplementation."

This is because most of the medicines we consume when treating illnesses have biased properties, while foods are generally mild and balanced, so as long as we properly combine foods, we can achieve the effect of replenishing vital essence and qi.

Foods have five flavors: sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, and salty, which are what we usually call sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty. In the Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon), it is recorded that these five flavors correspond to the five organs.

The sour flavor can nourish the liver, the bitter flavor clears the heart, the sweet flavor is used to nourish the spleen, the pungent flavor nourishes the lungs, and the salty flavor nourishes the kidneys. Did you know these? How many do you know?