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
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, food is divided into five types, which are generally flat, cold, cool, warm and hot. In summer, people are encouraged to eat more foods that are flat and cold, such as common beans and fungus. Tofu is more common in cold food, as well as wax gourd and loofah. Cold foods include bitter gourd, tomato and watermelon.
Flat food includes:
Fish include rice, soybean, black sesame, peanut, potato, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, carrot, onion, black fungus, lemon pork, theme, egg, carp, crucian carp, loach, yellow croaker and pomfret. 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.
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According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the reaction of food to human body has four characteristics, namely, cold, cool, warm and hot. In addition, there is another kind of food, which has no obvious cold or warm properties and is called slippery. What is suitable for the body is beneficial, and what is harmful to the body should be taboo. Warm food can treat yin syndrome and cold syndrome; Cold food can cure yang and clear heat. This can achieve appropriate cold and heat, balance yin and yang, and restore health.
1. Hot foods are: mutton, beef, dog meat, chicken, pig head, shrimp, crab, carp, yellow croaker, hairtail, pepper, pepper, ginger, pumpkin, etc.
2. Warm foods include: tortoise, soft-shelled turtle, crucian carp, cuttlefish, squid, milk, goose, ribs, brown sugar, peanut oil, sesame oil, soybean oil, broad bean, potato, japonica rice, glutinous rice, wheat flour, lentils, sword beans, red dates, mushrooms, yellow flowers, winter bamboo shoots, onions and garlic.
3. Sexual foods include pork, pork liver, eggs, tremella, lily, red beans, peas, radishes, lotus seeds, lotus roots, yam, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, beans and gourds.
4. Cold foods include: duck eggs, honey, laver, kelp, mung beans, wax gourd, watermelon, bitter gourd, loofah, bitter vegetables, cucumbers, lettuce, amaranth, bamboo shoots, black fungus, bananas, persimmons, pears and tofu.