[Plus Size] Healing Foods Deck

Healing Foods Deck

300 Cards | Learn Food Energetics Through the Wisdom of TCM
🌿 Physical Deck + Lifetime Digital Access

💛 Nourish Your Body and Soul with TCM Food Therapy

We poured our hearts into creating the Healing Foods Deck because we truly believe food can nurture both your body and spirit through Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

We wanted to make it simple, fun, and easy for everyone to understand how everyday foods can support balance, prevent illness, and promote long-term wellness using TCM’s timeless wisdom.

This deck is made for TCM students, wellness practitioners, nutrition enthusiasts, and anyone curious about staying well with food — helping you feel more connected to a happy, healthy life. 🥰

🥗 Explore the Healing Power of Foods

The Healing Foods Deck features 300 beautifully designed cards, each showcasing a unique food viewed through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Perfect for TCM practitioners, acupuncturists, herbalists, and food lovers, these cards make learning food energetics interactive and visual — showing how food temperature, flavor, and meridian entry all affect your health and balance.

🍎 Front View

Each card displays key TCM properties to help you study and remember food energetics:

• Chinese Characters: Authentic Chinese names to connect you to traditional roots.
• English & Latin Names: Easy identification for Western learners.
• Korean Name: Honoring Korean herbal and dietary traditions.
• TCM Temperature: Indicates if a food is warming, cooling, or neutral.
• TCM Taste Property: Sour, Bitter, Sweet, Acrid, or Salty — the five flavors that guide the body’s balance.
• TCM Abilities: The food’s therapeutic actions (e.g., tonifying Qi, clearing Heat, nourishing Yin).
• TCM Entering Channels: The organ systems each food supports (e.g., Liver, Spleen, Lung).

🍵 Back View

A playful and informative design featuring:

• Cute Character: An original Boncho character illustration for each food — making study visual and memorable!
• English Name: Clear and simple identification.
• Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water — connecting food energetics to the Five Elements.
• Taste: Reinforces the food’s flavor-based property and element relationship.
• Supportive Foods: Foods that harmonize with this item to enhance its benefits.
  Example: Ginger (warming) + Jujube (nourishing) = strengthens digestion and Qi.
• Disruptive Foods: Foods that may counteract or imbalance effects due to opposite energetics.
  Example: Cooling cucumber with warming lamb may disrupt digestion.

🧠 The Boncho Icon: Taste

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, taste isn’t just about flavor — it’s a window into function.
Each of the Five Tastes corresponds to an element, an organ pair, and a therapeutic action:

• Sour (Wood / Liver–Gallbladder) – Astringes and consolidates energy, retains fluids, calms Liver Qi, aids digestion.
• Bitter (Fire / Heart–Small Intestine) – Clears Heat, dries Dampness, supports the Heart, calms the Spirit.
• Sweet (Earth / Spleen–Stomach) – Tonifies Qi, strengthens the Spleen, harmonizes the body, eases tension.
• Acrid (Metal / Lung–Large Intestine) – Promotes circulation, disperses stagnation, opens the Lungs, relieves colds.
• Salty (Water / Kidney–Bladder) – Softens hardness, moistens dryness, supports Kidneys, balances fluids.

Understanding these taste relationships helps you select foods that balance your body’s energy naturally.

🌿 Why You’ll Love It

• Simple & Visual: Study food energetics the Boncho way — through charming illustrations and intuitive icons.
• Educational & Fun: Learn the “why” behind what you eat and how food temperature, flavor, and element affect your body.
• Practical for Clinic & Home: Perfect for patient education or mindful meal planning.
• Beautiful Collectible: Completes your Boncho Friends study deck series — made with love and attention to detail.

🩷 From the Boncho Friends Team

We believe learning TCM should be joyful, visual, and accessible.
The Healing Foods Deck helps you reconnect with nature through what you eat — and reminds you that every meal can be a form of medicine.

Let’s study, cook, and heal together — one card (and one bite) at a time. 🍚🌱