The five flavors are simple and can be known with the tongue, but many retired people don't know how to distinguish the "cold and hot" nature of food. Don't worry, today I will introduce some simple tips to teach you to easily distinguish whether food is cold or hot!
Five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. In addition to the five flavors, there are light and astringent flavors. It is more effective to master the different functions of five kinds of foods, and to eat reasonably according to physical fitness and maintain health.
Spicy food
Spicy food has the effects of promoting qi and blood circulation, expelling wind and cold, and dredging meridians. For example, people suffering from exogenous cold should eat spicy ginger, onion and perilla.
sweet food
Sweets can harmonize the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood, and relieve pain, but eating too much sweets is easy to get fat, especially for diabetics.
Sour food
Sour food has the function of astringing and promoting fluid production, which can stimulate appetite, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite. If you are too full and tired, you can eat hawthorn to strengthen your stomach and promote digestion.
Bitter food
Bitter food has the functions of clearing away heat and reducing fire, detoxifying and relieving annoyance, and is often used to treat damp-heat. Bitter gourd, tea, wine, vinegar, orange peel and lily are all common bitter foods.
Salty food
Salty food can soften hard mass, relieve constipation, like the sea has the function of softening hard mass and resolving phlegm. Other common foods are salt, laver, jellyfish, sea cucumber, pig blood, pork and so on.
Different foods have different effects on human body. Generally speaking, pungent enters the lung, sweet enters the spleen, sour enters the liver, bitter enters the heart and salty enters the kidney. Liver diseases should be pungent, lung diseases should be bitter, heart and kidney diseases should be salty, and spleen and stomach diseases should be sweet and sour.
According to the body reaction after eating, Chinese medicine divides food into four types, also known as four qi, that is, "cold, cool, warm and hot", and the deviation between cold and hot is not obvious.
Cool and cold
Cold food is suitable for hot constitution and diseases, such as fever, thirst, cough, excessive phlegm and other symptoms.
● Most cold foods have the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, detoxifying, cooling blood and nourishing yin.
Common cold foods include coix seed, mung bean, wax gourd, tomato, apple, pear, crab, duck blood, honeysuckle and balsam pear tea.
Temperature or heat
● Warm or hot food is suitable for cold constitution and diseases, such as wind chill, runny nose, abdominal pain, vomiting and rheumatic joint pain.
● Most warm foods have the functions of warming the middle warmer, helping yang, dispelling cold and supplementing fire.
● Common warm foods include mutton, chestnut, glutinous rice, coriander, pepper, litchi, longan, carrot and leek.
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In addition, some foods have a peaceful diet, which is called blandness. Suitable for general physique, regardless of cold syndrome and heat syndrome.
● Plain food has the functions of strengthening the spleen, appetizing and nourishing the body.
● Light foods are generally nutritious and healthy products, such as rice, flour, soybeans, sweet potatoes, radishes, apples and milk.
Eating should be different all year round. Eat cold in spring and cool in summer to nourish yang. Eat warm food in autumn and hot food in winter to nourish yin.
Judging from the color.
● Plants with greenish colors, such as mung beans and vegetables, are close to the ground and absorb the water on the ground, so they are cold.
Plants with reddish colors, such as pepper, pepper, jujube, pomegranate, etc. They are all close to the ground, but the fruit is exposed to the sun for a long time, so it is hot.
Judging from the taste.
◆ Sweet and pungent foods, such as garlic, persimmon and pomegranate, are hot because they are exposed to the sun for a long time.
Bitter and sour foods are mostly cold foods, such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, taro, plum and papaya.
Judging from the growth environment
? Aquatic plants are cold, such as lotus root, kelp and laver.
? Foods that grow on land, such as peanuts, potatoes, yam, ginger, etc. The reason why it is hot is that plants are drought-resistant and have less water content after being buried in the soil for a long time.
From the geographical location of growth,
◆ The food with the shade facing north absorbs moisture heavily, and rarely sees sunlight, so it is cold, such as mushrooms and fungus.
Some foods that grow in the sky, or foods in the southeast, such as sunflowers and chestnuts, are hot because they receive enough light and heat.
Judging from the growing season
● Foods grown in winter are cold because of their heavy coldness, such as Chinese cabbage, mushrooms, white radish and wax gourd.
● Foods that grow in summer are subject to much rain, so they are cold, such as watermelon, cucumber, pear and grapefruit.
In addition to the nature of food, different cooking methods and cooking materials will change the nature of food to varying degrees.
? If you stew, roast, stew, stir-fry, burn, simmer and other methods, cold food can be warmed;
? Choosing seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, pepper and cooking wine can also change the nature of cold food.
? If food is treated by fire, its nature will tend to be hot, so the food treated by burning, roasting, frying, frying and roasting is hot and dry.
? Like peanuts, they are all flat foods, but the peanuts we usually eat, if fried or fried, are all hot foods.
? White radish and honey are cold foods when eaten raw, and warm foods when cooked.
? In addition, western-style foods with high calorie, such as chocolate and candy, are easy to get angry after eating and should be classified as hot foods.
We should flexibly and dynamically match foods with different attributes and choose reasonable cooking methods according to our actual physical condition. Such as braised eggplant with garlic, so that the nature of the dish will not be too cold; Red hot pot, you can choose cold celery, spinach, arrowhead, river fish fillet and so on. To maintain a balance and overcome the negative effects of diet on health. Have you learned?