Foods which promote dampness are:
- Dairy products – milk, cheese, yogurts, ice cream; Sheep & Goats products are known to be less
- Wheat – breads, pastry’s, biscuits, all yeast products
- Pork & rich meat
- Processed foods, sugar & sweeteners
- Concentrated juice’s especially Orange & Tomato
- Beer
- Bananas – these are a big NO in Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Saturated fats
- Raw, cold, sweet and rich foods
Dampness can be divided into three kinds:
- Dampness
- Water
- Phelgm
Foods which resolve Dampness
- Adzuki bean
- Alfalfa
- Asparagus
- Barley
- Basil
- Buckwheat
- Caraway
- Cardamon
- Celery
- Clove
- Coriander
- Corn
- Daikon
- Garlic
- Green Tea
- Horseradish
- Jasmine Tea
- Kidney bean
- Kohlrabi
- Lemon
- Marjoram
- Mushroom (button)
- Mustard leaf
- Onion
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Pumpkin
- Radish
- Rye
- Scallion
- Turnip
- Umeboshi plum
Foods which resolve Water
- Adzuki bean
- Alfalfa
- Barley
- Basil
- Black Soybean
- Broad bean
- Celery
- Corn
- Fenugreek
- Grape
- Kelp
- Kidney bean
- Lettuce
- Mungbean
- Pea
- Plantain
- Plum
- Raspberry leaf
- Rice
- Seaweed
- Squash
- Tea
- Water Chestnut
- Watercress
Foods which resolve Phlegm
- Almond
- Apple peel
- Black pepper
- Celery
- Grapefruit
- Lemon peel
- Licorice
- Marjoram
- Mushroom (button)
- Mustard seed
- Olive
- Onion
- Orange peel
- Pear
- Peppermint
- Plantain
- Radish
- Seaweed
- Shiitake
- Tea
- Thyme
- Walnut
- Watercress