Is tsaoko hot or cold?
Amomum tsao-ko is warm. Nature and taste of tsaoko: pungent, warm, spleen and stomach meridian, non-toxic.
Has the effects of eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, eliminating phlegm, stopping malaria, invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
Indications: malaria, phlegm fullness, epigastric cold pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and dyspepsia.
Hot food
Hot food is two kinds of "sex" distinguished by traditional Chinese medicine in diet and health preservation. Food has four characteristics: cold, hot, warm and cool. Among them, foods that can alleviate and eliminate cold syndrome are called hot foods. Chinese medicine believes that food has different tastes and functions.
cold drink and snack
Cold food refers to food with pharmacological effects such as clearing away heat, purging fire and detoxifying. Cold food and cold food are basically the same in nature, but in different degrees, so they are also called "slightly cold food".
Common cold foods are millet, wheat, coix seed, mushrooms, cucumbers, wax gourd, spinach, pears and so on. It is suitable for "heat" symptoms such as internal fire and deficiency heat caused by yin deficiency or hyperactivity of yang, or external evils such as summer heat, heat and dryness.
light food
Flat food is a kind of food relative to cold and warm. Its cold and heat properties are not obvious and relatively peaceful, and it can be used regardless of cold syndrome or heat syndrome.
Sexual foods include: rice, soybeans, black sesame, peanuts, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, noodles, soybeans, sweet potatoes, apples, Chinese cabbage, carrots, onions, black fungus, lemon pork, eggs, carp, crucian carp, loach, yellow croaker and pomfret. In addition, the milk we drink in our daily life is also a flat 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.