Diet and health should first talk about "sex". "Sex" (or "Qi") means that food has different properties such as cold, cool, warm and hot, which is called "four natures" or "four qi" in Chinese medicine.

Cold or cold food suitable for febrile constitution and diseases belongs to cold or cold food. Such as watermelon suitable for fever, thirst, irritability and other symptoms; Suitable for pears with cough, chest pain, excessive phlegm and other symptoms, all of which belong to cold food.

Warm or hot is the antonym of cold or cold, and any food suitable for cold constitution and diseases belongs to warm or hot food. For example, ginger, scallion and coriander are suitable for symptoms such as cold, fever, aversion to cold, runny nose and headache; Dried ginger and black tea suitable for abdominal pain, vomiting and hot drinks; Pepper, wine, etc. , suitable for cold limbs, chills, rheumatic joint pain, etc., all belong to warm food.

The nature of flat food is between cold food and warm food, which is suitable for general physique and can be chosen by people with cold and heat diseases. Vegetarian dishes are mostly general nutrition and health care products. Such as rice, noodles, soybeans, sweet potatoes, radishes, apples, milk and so on.

From the analysis of more than 300 kinds of commonly used foods recorded in traditional Chinese medicine dietotherapy books, it is found that most of them are flat foods; Temperature and heat are second; The cold is behind. Generally speaking, all kinds of foods have nutritional and health care functions, and cold foods are negative, which have the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. Warm food is positive and has the effects of dispelling cold, warming meridians, dredging collaterals and supporting yang.

Neutral and peaceful food

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Sexual food includes: rice, soybean, black sesame, peanut, potato, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, carrot, onion, auricularia auricula, lemon pork, theme, egg, carp, crucian carp, loach, yellow croaker and pomfret in fish. In addition, the milk we drink in our daily life is also a flat food.

Cold food:

Buckwheat, corn, white radish, wax gourd, mushrooms, celery, lettuce, rape, oranges, apples, etc.

Cold food:

Millet, mung bean, kelp, mung bean sprout, bitter gourd, tomato, cucumber, banana, watermelon, wax gourd, etc.