Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine nutrition, the cooling nature of cucumber can be used to clear heat and detoxify. From this perspective, it can be consumed to balance the body during the warmer season, or to treat symptoms such as inflammation and skin conditions, presenting with signs of heat (Kastner, 2021, p. 112).

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the goji berry (Lycii Fructus) — known as Gou Qi Zi — is part of the category of “herbs that tonify the blood,” meaning it has a nourishing quality for presentations related to a deficiency of blood. Through this lens, blood deficiency is recognized by various signs and symptoms that guide diagnosis and treatment, including the clinical use of herbal medicine. (Bensky, Clavey, & Stöger, 2015, p.743)