Beet and Avocado Salad---Beauty in a tupperware dish

I got this recipe from my school mate Lori Sherlock, who can I say has amazing style.  She has purchased the new Betsey Johnson boots that came out this fall and are these boots are everything I have looked for in a boot.  Sigh.  Well anyway back to this delicious recipe.  I would literally say this is beauty in a bottle.  The avocado is great for regulation of hormones, and beautifying skin.  The beets are great for a women's menses.  Regulate a woman's menses and the woman is even more beautiful then they were before.  Why?  Less crabby, or emotional, more energy and they just look and feel better.  So adding these two ingredients together is so beautifully harmonizing.  If you are a man, don't shy away from this recipe.  Especially if you are prone to dry skin, dry hair, nosebleeds, hemorrhoids, and are a vegetarian.
P.S.- I didn't have tarragon and the recipe will still just as good with out it.  I just added more lemon and used a garlic wine vinegar
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Serves: 4
Time: 20 minutes (with precooked beets)
Ingredients:  3 or 4 medium boiled beets. Cooled, peeled and sliced.   2 ripe but firm avocados, peeled, pitted, and sliced.  1 small red onion, minced. ½ cup extra virgin olive oil. 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar. ¼  cup freshly squeezed lemon juice. 1 fresh tarragon leaf, minced. Salt and pepper.

• Arrange the beets and avocados in alternating layers in a dish or shallow bowl. Mix together the onion, olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, and tarragon. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.

TCM Analysis:
Beets- Sweet, neutral. Enter the spleen, stomach, liver, heart. Strengthen middle jiao, nourish blood, calm shen.
Avocado- Sweet, bland, cool. Enters lung, large intestine.  Strengthens spleen and stomach, nourishes yin and blood, clears heat, promotes fluids.
Onion- Pungent, neutral. Enters the lung, stomach and large intestine. Clears heat, relieves toxicity.  Transforms phlegm and damp.
Lemon- Cooling, very sour, astringent.  Generates fluids, resolves phlegm.
Red wine vinegar- Warming, moves blood, circulates liver qi, resolves dampness.
Olive oil- Lubricates intestines
Tarragon- Acrid, warming. Circulates qi
Salt- Salty, cold. Enters the kidney. Eases bowel movement, clears heat, nourishes kidney
Pepper- Pungent, warm. Enters stomach, large intestine.  Warms middle jiao, expels damp and cold.