White (musk) gourd: White gourd is sweet in taste or tasteless, and cool in nature. It can promote urination, resolve edema and swelling, clear heat, eliminate poison from the body and resolve phlegm. People with deficiency of Yang should not eat too much white gourd.

Pumpkin: Pumpkin has a sweet taste and a warm nature. It can tonify the spleen and stomach Qi, resolve information, stop pain, eliminate poison and expel parasites.However, the overeating of pumpkin may cause Jiaoqi (beriberi) and jaundice, and people with heat pathogens in the stomach should not eat too much pumpkin.

Cucumber: Cucumber is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It can clear heat, eliminate poison, promote discharge of water, and relieve annoyance and thirst. People with Jiaoqi (beriberi) should not eat too much cucumber, and the intake of cucumber by people with cold pathogens in the stomach may cause abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea because it can stir up the cold phlegm accumulated in the body.

Bitter gourd: Bitter gourd has a bitter taste and a cold nature. It can clear summer heat or heat pathogens, improve vision and eliminate poison.

Sweet gourd: Sweet gourd has a sweet taste and a cold nature. It can clear summer heat pathogens, relieve annoyance and thirst, promote urination and cure dysentery. People with deficiency and cold pathogens in the spleen and stomach, abdominal distension and diarrhea should avoid eating this gourd.

Loofah: Loofah has a sweet taste and a cool nature. It can relieve coughing and asthma, clear heat, eliminate poison, clear heat in the blood and control bleeding. People with cold pathogens in the stomach should not eat too much loofah.

Ficus tikaua: Ficus tikaua has a sweet taste and a cool nature. It can produce saliva and relieve thirst. However, the overeating of ficus tikaua may cause diarrhea.

Snake melon: Snake melon has a sweet taste and a cold nature, and it can promote transportation of food in the stomach and intestines, and relieve annoyance and thirst.

Date: Red date has a sweet taste and a warm nature.
It can tonify spleen and stomach Qi, produce saliva, adjust
Ying (nutritive material) and Wei (defensive energy) Qi and eliminate herbal poison. However, the overeating of dates may injure the teeth, and people with dampness and phlegm, stagnation of food, toothache and parasites should not eat too many dates.
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