For example, foods that make people fat are negative, and foods that make people "long-term" fat are positive; Food that can make people feel calm is negative, and food that can make people cheer up is positive; The food for reducing fire is negative, and the food for removing cold is positive.
The following is a simple classification of yin and yang characteristics of food and other common things:
Cool food, water, cold and peaceful food in winter, night and afternoon (pears and persimmons), captive animals (pork and turtles).
Warm food in summer (longan, litchi), warm food for free-range animals (mutton, crucian carp).
Foods with gloomy and healthy functions (salty, sour, sweet and sour, bitter and astringent) foods with more water (fresh mushrooms) foods and meat.
The skin of food with low water content (spicy, hemp, spicy and sweet food) (dried mushrooms) has the function of yang ascending and descending.
From the perspective of Chinese dietotherapy, the effects of negative food and positive food on human body are as follows:
The main functions of negative food are nourishing, calming, cooling, dispelling fire, astringing and stopping diarrhea.
The main function of positive food is to promote excitement, warm, dispel cold and promote qi circulation.
From the perspective of "tonic" and "diarrhea", negative food and positive food are also different:
Positive food, negative food
Tonifying promotes human metabolism, accelerates energy conversion, nourishes and moistens viscera, and inhibits excessive energy consumption.
Purging and diffusing, sweating, diuresis and eliminating pathogens, eliminating phlegm, relaxing bowels and eliminating pathogens.
The role of Ejiao and Angelica sinensis is too different. If you eat it wrong, it may be counterproductive.
Ejiao is a negative food, so its "tonic" is to supplement nutrition, nourish yin and replenish blood, but it is very negative and difficult to digest. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are prone to damage the stomach and intestines, causing indigestion and suffering from it. Yellow rice wine is positive, so as to alleviate the negative of Ejiao. By the same token, when you eat any food with strong negativity, you must eat some positive food to supplement the body's motivation to digest this negative food, so as not to be hurt by the negativity of food.
Angelica sinensis is a positive food, so its "tonic" is to open the channel of blood circulation, thus stimulating the hematopoietic function of the human body. As the saying goes, "the old ones don't go, and the new ones don't come." Once the old blood stasis melts, it will naturally stimulate the human body to make new blood. If Ejiao is a raw material to supplement human hematopoiesis, then Angelica sinensis is to supplement human hematopoietic energy. Can you just eat angelica to replenish blood? No Must be accompanied by nutritious food. The "supplement" of positive food to human body needs the nutrition of negative food to play an effective role. Not only angelica, but also all positive foods "supplement" the human body, and all negative foods are needed to supplement nutrition in order to play an effective role.
Four simple ways to help you distinguish the yin and yang of food.
If you have yang deficiency, please eat more positive foods, such as peppers, carrots, mutton and crucian carp. If it is yin deficiency, it is necessary to eat more negative foods, such as vinegar, white radish, persimmon, turtle and so on. If exogenous pathogens such as wind, cold and humidity are involved, you should eat some positive foods to balance them, such as onions, ginger and orange peel water. If external evils such as summer heat, dryness and fire are exogenous, then eat some negative foods to remedy them, such as rock sugar stewed pear water.
There are so many kinds of food in front of us that it is really difficult to master all their functions. So, is there a simple way for us to master them at once? Remember the following four points, right away.
First, according to the cold and hot nature of food.
Yang governs heat and yin governs cold. Cold foods are cloudy, such as pears and persimmons; Warm food belongs to yang, such as longan and litchi. There are also some foods that are neither too cold nor too hot, which are called sex foods. In fact, most of them are slightly cold and lukewarm, except for lukewarm food, which can be classified as negative and positive. For example, the radish is flat, but the carrot inside is slightly warm and the white radish is slightly cold and negative.
Second, according to the amount of water in food (fire and water).
Yang governs fire, while Yin governs water. Foods with more water are more cloudy, and dried and dried foods are more sunny. The same radish, white radish has more water and carrots are relatively dry, so white radish belongs to yin and carrots belong to yang. For the same kind of food, fresh food is more turbid than dry food. Fresh mushrooms belong to yin, and dried mushrooms belong to yang.
Third, according to animals that like moving and animals that like being still.
Yang takes the initiative, while Yin dominates quietness. Quiet animals belong to Yin, while active animals belong to Yang. Captive animals belong to yin, and captive animals belong to yang. For example, pork is yin and mutton is yang; Turtle is yin, crucian carp is yang; Caged foreign chickens belong to yin, and free-range Chai chickens belong to yang. One thing to note is that there are too many additives in animal feed now, which will affect the yin and yang of meat food. But whether it is yin or yang, these additives will only disturb the yin and yang of the human body and hurt them.
Fourth, according to the taste of food (according to ups and downs)
Yang dominates the ups and downs, while Yin dominates the ups and downs. "Ascending and descending" is a term used by Chinese medicine to describe the action of drugs. Sedimentation is downward and inward convergence, which can nourish yin and reduce fire, clear heat and relieve constipation. Ascending and floating, that is, rising upwards and outwards, can raise yang, refresh oneself, sweat and dispel cold. These effects are related to the taste of food.
Generally, if it tastes spicy, hemp, spicy and sweet, it will have the effect of rising and falling (up); And the taste is salty, sour, sweet, sour or bitter, which has the function of settling (going down). In this way, the yin and yang of food can be distinguished according to its taste. For example, onions, ginger, garlic, peppers and peppers that are often used at home belong to yang, while salt, vinegar and soy sauce belong to yin; Pepper is positive, bitter gourd is negative; For another example, orange meat is sweet and sour, which belongs to yin, and orange peel is spicy and belongs to yang. Distinguishing between yin and yang means distinguishing between cold and heat, so it can be judged that orange meat is cold and orange peel is warm.
By mastering the method of distinguishing yin and yang of food, we can know fairly well when eating.