The 5 Tastes for balance

The five tastes have direct influence on your organs. Your diet should have a good combination of the five tastes in order to promote internal balance & harmony and good health.

The 5 tastes are:

1. Sweet - Spleen & Stomach
2. Sour - Liver & Gall bladder
3. Bitter - Heart & Small Intestine
4. Salty - Kidney & Bladder
5. Pungent - Lungs & Large Intestine

I don't know enough about the 5 tastes to talk about them, but at one time I was drinking a lot of cranberry & pomegranate juice for all the antioxidants and had lots of problems with headaches and breathing. I added some sweets (dates, watermelon & apples) and slowed down on astringent foods & juices and it cleared up.