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Chinese Food Culture: Incompatible Food Combinations

Food Combination: snail and ice
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: snail and pork
Ailment Caused: loss of eyebrow
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: snail and edible tree fungus
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: lotus roots

Food Combination: snail and clam
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: coriander

Food Combination: milk and spinach
Ailment Caused: dysentery
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: milk and sashimi
Ailment Caused: poisoning 
Remedy: green beans 

Food Combination: milk and vinegar
Ailment Caused: milk curdling in the stomach
Remedy: purified underground water or green beans

Food Combination: eel and vinegar
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: black beans and liquorice

Food Combination: eel and beef liver
Ailment Caused: choking by wind
Remedy: black beans and liquorice

Food Combination: boiled eel and red dates
Ailment Caused: hair loss
Remedy: crab

Food Combination: boiled eel and burnt mulberry twig
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: eel and dry plum
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: eel and cow’s liver
Ailment Caused: drooling
Remedy: black beans and liquorice

Food Combination: eel and pumpkin
Ailment Caused: depressed nose
Remedy: crab

Food Combination: pumpkin and shrimp
Ailment Caused: diarrhea
Remedy: black beans and liqourice

Food Combination: pumpkin and dried bonito
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: black beans and liquorice

Food Combination: pumpkin and mitten crab

Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: mitten crab and citrus
Ailment Caused: inability to stand up
Remedy: garlic juice

Food Combination: mitten crab and tangerine
Ailment Caused: soft abscess
Remedy: garlic juice

Food Combination: mitten crab and loach
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: mitten crab and raw peanuts
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: mitten crab and ice
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: lotus roots

Food Combination: mitten crab and eggplant
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: lotus roots

Food Combination: mitten crab and melon
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: citrus peel

Food Combination: mitten crab and malt sugar
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: mitten crab and honey
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: honey and green onion
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: honey and soybean curd
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: mitten crab and persimmon
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: lotus roots

Food Combination: persimmon and arrack
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: persimmon and octopus
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: clam and tangerine
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: cow milk and spinach
Ailment Caused: diarrhea
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: cow milk and snakehead fish
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: bamboo shoots and malt sugar
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: bamboo and mutton
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: game meat and animal liver
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: breast milk and soy sauce

Food Combination: beef and catfish
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans or human milk mixed with fermented soybean juice

Food Combination: beef and Chinese chive
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: breast milk and soy sauce

Food Combination: beef and leek
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: human milk mixed with fermented soybean juice

Food Combination: brown sugar and uncooked oyster
Ailment Caused: poisoning 

Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: Chinese celery and turtle
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: olive juice

Food Combination: sweet potato and pomegranate
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: Chinese chive juice

Food Combination: crucian carp and honey
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: black beans and liquorice

Food Combination: red and dried plum
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: cassava starch and sesame oil
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: pork and liquorice
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: green beans

Food Combination: rice and lizard droppings
Ailment Caused: poisoning
Remedy: purified underground water

Food Combination: dog meat and garlic
Ailment Caused: blood disease/scurvy
Remedy: human breast milk mixed with fermented soybean juice

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