There are more "sweet and cold" foods to choose from in winter. For example, licorice, poria cocos and other cool medicinal materials can be added to hot food for tonic, so as to reduce calories and avoid being too hot after tonic. In the usual diet, you can also choose cold foods, such as soft-shelled turtle, soft-shelled turtle, rabbit meat, duck meat, goose meat, chicken, eggs, kelp, sea cucumber, honey, sesame, tremella, lotus seeds, lilies, white radish, Chinese cabbage, celery, spinach, winter bamboo shoots, bananas, pears, apples and so on. Many people like beef stew in winter, so it is better to add some radishes. There is a folk saying that eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor to prescribe. This is because radish is sweet and flat, and has the effects of reducing qi, resolving food stagnation and resolving phlegm. It can be balanced with the "warm dryness" of beef, which can not only replenish qi, but also promote digestion.
Although cool food has the functions of calming, cooling and diminishing inflammation, it is not suitable for all people. According to Professor Gan Aiping of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, people who usually have symptoms of yin deficiency such as dryness and heat, hand and foot fever and night sweats. You can choose "sweet and cold" food appropriately. For example, duck meat is cool, which can tonify deficiency, clear heat, harmonize viscera, and benefit waterways. It is more suitable for cardiovascular patients with weak body and low fever, dry stool and edema. Generally speaking, people with spleen deficiency and stomach cold should not eat cold food and cold tonic. Instead, you can eat some hot pot that ordinary people should not overeat, such as dog meat and mutton hot pot. However, we should also be careful not to make up too much. Excessive intake of calories is concentrated in the body, which is easy to get angry, leading to the leakage of yang, which will destroy the nutritional balance of the human body.