Chinese Medicine has five tastes: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.
The function of pungent medicine is diffused. It can make the energy run throughout the body. It can cure some diseases which are caused by external fators.
Sweet medicine is restorative. It can reduce pain and emergency. Its indicatiions are deficient syndrome and pains.
Sour medicine can weaken and restrain some deficient symptoms, such as some kind of sweat and diarrhea which is caused by dificient reason.
Bitter medicine is often used to reduce anger of mind and heat of body, and it can expel redundant water of the body and reduce constipation.
The last one, salty medicine can reduce constipation and mass.
