We know that food has incompatibilities, and although the reasoning is not entirely conclusive, it is advisable to be cautious and treat these as important references. The taboos are:
1. Pork should not be eaten with buckwheat, pigeon meat, crucian carp, or soybeans;
2. Mutton should not be eaten with vinegar;
3. Dog meat should not be eaten with garlic;
4. Pork liver should not be eaten with buckwheat, bean sauce, carp intestines, or fish;
5. Carp should not be eaten with dog meat;
6. Turtle meat should not be eaten with amaranth, alcohol, or fruits;
7. Eel should not be eaten with dog meat or dog blood;
8. Sparrow meat should not be eaten with pork liver; duck eggs should not be eaten with mulberries or plums;
9. Chicken should not be eaten with mustard, glutinous rice, or plums;
10. Soft-shelled turtle meat should not be eaten with pork, rabbit meat, duck meat, amaranth, or eggs. The same applies to medicine;
11. Crucian carp should not be eaten with mustard greens or pork liver; pork blood should not be eaten with soybeans. There are taboos in the combination of foods. The same is true for medicinal diets, mainly including:
1. Pork should not be eaten with dark plum, platycodon, coptis, false coptis, lily, or atractylodes;
2. Pork blood should not be eaten with rehmannia, fo-ti, or honey;
3. Mutton should not be eaten with pinellia or sweet flag, and should not be cooked with copper or cinnabar;
4. Dog meat should not be eaten with phytolacca or apricot kernels;
5. Crucian carp should not be eaten with magnolia bark or ophiopogon;
6. Garlic should not be eaten with rehmannia or fo-ti;
7. Radish should not be eaten with rehmannia or fo-ti;
8. Vinegar should not be eaten with poria.