Let's talk about "sex" in diet. "Sex" means that food has different properties such as cold, cool, warm and hot, so it is called "four natures". So what kind of people are cold, cool, warm and hot? How do you tell the nature of food?

Coolness or coldness is suitable for heat constitution and diseases. Such as fever, cough, chest pain, thirst, irritability and excessive phlegm. Most cold or cold foods have the functions of clearing away heat, purging fire and detoxifying.

Warm or hot is just the opposite of cool or cold, which is suitable for cold constitution and diseases. Such as cold, fever, aversion to cold, runny nose, headache, etc. Most warm or hot foods can help yang, warm and dispel cold.

After understanding the characteristics of "four natures", do you know how to distinguish the "four natures" of food?

1. Distinguish the hot and cold food from the taste.

Sweet and spicy foods are hot because they receive more sunlight, such as garlic, mango, litchi and longan. These foods are suitable for people who are afraid of the cold.

Bitter and sour food is mostly cold. For example: bitter gourd, plum, papaya and other foods.

2. Distinguish the cold and hot food from the growing environment.

Aquatic plants are mostly cold, such as lotus root, kelp, seaweed and other foods.

Some plants that grow on land and are buried in the soil have little water and are drought-tolerant, so most of them are hot. Such as ginger, potatoes, yam, peanuts and so on.

? 3. Distinguish the hot and cold food from the geographical location

Cool food, which is not exposed to the sun for a long time, has heavy moisture and low calories, so it is mostly cool food. For example: black fungus, mushrooms and so on.

Plants that grow in the sky, or foods that grow in the southeast, are hotter because they receive more sunlight and have a long sunshine time, such as sunflowers, chestnuts and red dates.