🌿 Folk Prescriptions

1. Chili: Avoid eating with lamb liver or pumpkin.
2. Carrot: Should not be eaten with tomatoes, chili, pomegranate, lettuce, or papaya. Best consumed alone or paired with meat.
3. Sweet potato (yam, white yam, ground potato, mountain yam): Do not eat with persimmons or bananas.
4. Cucumber: Avoid cooking with vegetables high in vitamin C, such as tomatoes or chili.
5. Eggplant: Should not be eaten with black beans or crabs.
6. Leek: Avoid eating with spinach—may cause diarrhea.
7. Baby bok choy: Avoid eating with black beans, peanuts, soybeans, celery, or pork.
8. Spinach: Should not be eaten with tofu—may lead to calcium deficiency. Avoid leeks.
9. Pumpkin: Should not be eaten with vitamin C-rich vegetables or fruits. Do not combine with lamb—may cause jaundice and beriberi.
10. Coriander: Avoid taking with tonics. Contraindicated with white atractylodes and peony root.
11. Bitter greens: Should not be eaten with honey.
12. Radish: Strictly avoid eating with oranges—may cause goiter. Avoid carrots. Contraindicated with He Shou Wu and Rehmannia.
13. Celery: Should not be eaten with cucumber.
14. Peanuts: Avoid eating with ferns, hairy crabs, or cucumbers.
15. Tofu: Do not eat with milk or spinach. Avoid using soy milk to prepare eggs. Contraindicated with tetracycline.