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A special liking or craving for food of a particular flavor or food of excessively strong flavor. Plain Questions (素问 sù wèn, wǔ zàng shēng chéng piān) states, when one eats many salty foods, the vessels congeal and change color; when one eats many bitter foods, the skin becomes desiccated and its hair drops out; when one eats acrid foods to excess, the sinews become tense and the nails desiccated; when on eats too many sour foods, the skin becomes thick and wrinkled and the lips raised; when on eats too many sweet foods, the bones become painful and the hair drops out. Compare perverted appetite.

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