Eat more tonic (cold) food: it can reduce fire, clear heart, clear away heat and moisten dryness, quench thirst and produce fluid. It is suitable for those with yin deficiency and heat excess, and it is forbidden for those with yang deficiency and cold. This kind of food includes millet, mung bean, buckwheat, bean sprout, bean curd, pear, sugarcane, apple, banana, wax gourd, eggplant, sweet potato, watermelon, cucumber, wax gourd, bitter gourd, rabbit meat, duck eggs, snail and so on.

Cold food: animals-horse meat, crabs, oysters and clams.

Plants-eggplant, lotus root, cucumber, cabbage. Fruits-persimmon, watermelon, pineapple, pear.

Seasoning-vermicelli, salt, yellow sauce, soy sauce.

Cold food: commonly used are pear, banana, plantain, ginkgo, olive, chrysanthemum, loofah, cucumber, rape, amaranth, celery, bamboo shoots, water bamboo, spinach, lotus root, taro, eggplant, radish, water spinach, tofu, fungus, green vegetables, mung beans, snake gall, rabbit meat and so on.

Cold food: animal eggs, quail eggs.

Plants-bamboo shoots, cauliflower, radish, spinach, coix seed.

Fruits-oranges, melons, cantaloupes and apples.

Have tea.

Try to eat less spicy food: commonly used are pepper, pepper, cinnamon, dried ginger, wine vinegar, fennel, broad bean, coriander, mutton, dog meat, cat meat, venison and so on.

Warming food: it can generate heat, warm the stomach, help yang, benefit qi, keep out cold and keep warm, and is suitable for those who are afraid of cold due to yang deficiency. However, those with excessive heat due to yin deficiency should not use it, otherwise it will aggravate internal heat and cause symptoms such as dry throat, bitter tongue, toothache, bloody stool and constipation. This kind of food includes flour, soybean oil, glutinous rice, vinegar, pepper, ginger, leek, longan, walnut, litchi, jujube, peach, dog meat, mutton, shrimp, carp and so on.

Traditional Chinese medicine has the principle of "cold is hot, heat is cold, deficiency is tonic, and it is actually diarrhea". After people know the nature and taste of various foods, they can choose foods reasonably according to this principle of traditional Chinese medicine.