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SARAH HAUER: Hi. I'm Sarah Hauer. SIG HAUER: And I'm Sig Hauer and we're professional practitioners
of traditional Chinese medicine. SARAH HAUER: We're here on behalf of Expert Village. SIG
HAUER: And welcome to our video. We'll also talk about the different flavors of the herbs
like sweet herbs. Gou qi berries, for example, is a sweet herb. A sour herb, for example,
would be the gua lou, the Trichosanthes. There are other categories like bitter; huang lian
is a very bitter herb. So, the flavor of the herb is very important as well, and one herb
doesn't necessarily have just one flavor. Sometimes an herb can have five different
flavors. And a perfect example of that, I'll pull one off the shelf here for you, is "wu
wei zu" which literally means five-flavored seed, and it has the five major flavors that
we talk about in Chinese herbs. So, the five flavors is sweet, salty, sour, bitter and
pungent. And there's also a sixth flavor which is neutral, bland but that's not considered
part of this. But again this is called... SARAH HAUER: You keep moving your hand. SIG
HAUER: This is called wu wei zu, literally means five-flavored seed.