Xīn 心 — Fire / red foods
Bitter and red food affinity
The Heart and Fire phase are conventionally paired with red foods and the bitter flavour in five-phase dietetic correspondences. The chest point supplies an editorial target-organ projection and does not substitute for pattern diagnosis, dose, preparation, or biomedical nutrition evidence.
Point 2 of 5 in Wǔ Xíng Food Therapy — Five-Phase Dietetics
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Yinshan Zhengyao (飲膳正要) (primary_canonical)
The Yuan court dietetic manual gives food preparation, regimen, and therapeutic diet guidance; its food classifications ground the food-therapy frame used here, while the five-organ colour layout is an editorial synthesis with Neijing correspondences.
Huangdi Neijing · Suwen (黃帝內經素問) (primary_canonical)
Suwen ch. 23 (Xuanming wuqi) discusses the five qi and five flavors in relation to the zang; ch. 5 supplies the wider five-phase correspondence frame. This is the canonical basis for the flavor-to-organ affinities represented here.
Bob Flaws, The Tao of Healthy Eating (secondary)
A modern English-language food-therapy guide that organises dietary choices through TCM pattern and food-property language; it is used for the accessible explanatory layer, not as a classical anatomical map.