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Wu xin cai (five-pungent dish)

五辛菜wu xin cai
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Recorded as a New Year dish to stir the qi of the five viscera, warm the centre, dispel foul qi, aid digestion and downbear qi.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷二十六·荤辛·五辛菜·主治

References
  • functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
  • WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
  • public pharmacopoeia & botanical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).
Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：岁朝食之助发五脏气；常食温中去恶气、消食下气。

Nature, flavor & meridians

Nature & flavor: 辛，温，无毒。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷二十六·荤辛·五辛菜·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷二十六·荤辛·五辛菜·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its nature & flavor.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷二十六·荤辛·五辛菜·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.