Cold fruits: tomato (slightly cold), watermelon, banana, kiwi fruit, melon, grapefruit, orange, persimmon, coconut water and mulberry. Suitable for hot constitution.
Cold and cool are consistent in nature, but the degree is different. Cold food is helpful to clear away fire and detoxify, and can be used as an auxiliary treatment for fiery disease. All the symptoms of excess fire, such as red face and red eyes, crazy dryness, delirium, stiff neck, erosion of mouth and tongue, swelling and pain of gums, thirsty mouth, liking cold drinks, short and red urine, dry stool, yellow and dry tongue coating, and rapid pulse, can be cooked and eaten as raw materials, which is helpful to clear fire and eliminate diseases.
Diet and health should first talk about "sex". "Sex" (or "Qi") means that food has different properties such as cold, cool, warm and hot, which is called "four natures" or "four qi" in Chinese medicine.
Cool or cold foods that are suitable for hot constitution and diseases belong to cool or cold foods. Such as watermelon suitable for symptoms such as fever, thirst and irritability; Suitable for pears with symptoms such as cough, chest pain and excessive phlegm, which are all cold foods.
Warm or hot is the opposite of cool 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 cold, fever, aversion to cold, runny nose, headache and other symptoms; Dry ginger and black tea suitable for abdominal pain, vomiting and hot drinks; Pepper, wine, etc., which are suitable for cold limbs, chills and rheumatic joint pain, are all warm foods.
The nature of flat food is between cold and warm food, which is suitable for general physique and can be selected by people with cold and hot diseases. Plain food is mostly a general nutrition and health care product. 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 in past dynasties, it is found that flat foods are mostly; Temperature and heat are the second; Cold and coolness are behind. Generally speaking, all kinds of foods have nutritional and health care effects, and cold and cool foods are negative, which have the effects of clearing away heat, purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. Warm food is positive, which has the effects of dispelling cold, warming meridians, dredging collaterals and helping yang.