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We poured our hearts into creating the Healing Foods Deck because we truly believe food can nurture both your body and soul through Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). We wanted to make it simple, fun and easy for everyone to learn how everyday foods can keep you healthy, using TCM’s special way of healing. This deck is for TCM students, health experts, and anyone curious about staying well with food, helping you feel more connected to a happy, healthy life!

Card Overview

Explore the Healing Power of Foods

Our Healing Foods Card Deck features 300 beautifully designed cards, each showcasing a unique food viewed through the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Perfect for wellness enthusiasts, TCM practitioners, and food lovers, these cards provide a fun and educational way to explore how foods can support your health and balance.

Front View: Each card displays key TCM properties:

Chinese Characters: The food’s name in Chinese for authenticity.
TCM Temperature: Indicates whether the food is warming, cooling, or neutral.
English & Latin Names: For easy identification.
Korean Name: Connecting with Korean herbal traditions.
TCM Taste Property: Sour, Bitter, Sweet, Acrid, or Salty, influencing the body’s balance.
TCM Abilities: The food’s therapeutic effects, such as tonifying Qi or clearing heat.
TCM Entering Channels: The organ systems the food supports (e.g., Liver, Spleen).

Back View: A playful and informative design featuring:

Cute Character: A unique illustration for each food, making learning fun.
English Name: Clear identification.
Elements: Associated with Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water.
Taste: Reinforces the TCM taste property.
Supportive Foods: Foods that harmonize with this food to enhance its benefits. For example, pairing ginger (warming) with jujube (nourishing) supports digestion and Qi.
Disruptive Foods: Foods that may counteract or imbalance the food’s effects. For instance, combining cooling cucumber with warming lamb may disrupt digestion due to conflicting energies.

Understanding TCM Taste

The Boncho Icon: Taste

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the taste of a food is more than flavor—it’s a key to its therapeutic function. Each of the five tastes—Sour, Bitter, Sweet, Acrid, and Salty—corresponds to specific elements, organs, and effects on the body. Understanding these helps you choose foods to balance your body’s energy.

Sour (Wood, Liver/Gallbladder): Sour foods, like lemons or plums, astringe and consolidate energy, helping to retain fluids and stop excessive sweating or diarrhea. They calm the Liver and promote digestion.

Bitter (Fire, Heart/Small Intestine): Bitter foods, such as dandelion or bitter melon, clear heat, dry dampness, and stimulate digestion. They support the Heart and calm the spirit.

Sweet (Earth, Spleen/Stomach): Sweet foods, like sweet potatoes or rice, nourish and tonify Qi, strengthen the Spleen, and provide energy. They harmonize the body and ease tension.

Acrid (Metal, Lung/Large Intestine): Acrid or pungent foods, like ginger or garlic, promote circulation, disperse stagnation, and open the Lungs. They aid in sweating and relieving colds.

Salty (Water, Kidney/Bladder): Salty foods, such as seaweed or miso, soften hardness, moisten dryness, and support the Kidneys. They guide energy downward and aid fluid balance.

TCM Food Synergy

Harmonious and Disharmonious Combinations

In TCM, the synergy between foods can amplify or hinder their healing potential. Our card deck highlights Supportive Foods and Disruptive Foods to guide you in creating balanced, health-promoting meals.

Supportive Foods

Supportive foods work in harmony to enhance each other’s benefits, aligning with TCM principles of balance. For example:

Ginger + Jujube: Ginger’s warming, acrid nature pairs with jujube’s sweet, nourishing quality to boost digestion and strengthen Qi.
Goji Berries + Black Sesame: Both nourish the Kidney and Liver, supporting vitality and essence.
lotus Root + Pork: Lotus root’s cooling, astringent nature complements pork’s warming, tonifying properties to balance Yin and Yang.

These combinations create synergy, amplifying the foods’ therapeutic effects and promoting overall harmony in the body.

Disruptive Foods

Disruptive foods have conflicting energies or properties that may disrupt digestion or balance. For example:

Rosemary + Cucumber: Cucumber’s cooling nature clashes with rosemary’s warming energy, potentially causing digestive stagnation.

By avoiding disruptive combinations, you can optimize the healing power of your meals.

A detailed explanation will be available on Boncho School. (You will be privately invited to access the lifetime digital study card version via email once it’s ready.) See the images below for more information.