Hot foods: mustard seeds, trout, cinnamon, chili peppers and peppercorns.
Warm foods: glutinous rice, sorghum rice, chestnuts, jujubes, walnuts, almonds, leeks, cumin, coriander, pumpkin, ginger, scallions, garlic, cinnamon, lychee, papaya, cherries, pomegranates, umeboshi, scented rafters, Buddha's hand, eel, bighead carp, silver carp, shrimp, sea cucumber, goose eggs, chicken, mutton, dog meat, venison, and so on.
Plain foods: rice, corn, peanut rice, soybeans, fava beans, red beans, black soybeans, peas, lentils, white potatoes, potatoes, taro, lotus seeds, hazelnuts, gorgonzola, mushrooms, fungus, black fungus, cabbages, capers, dasheen, cabbage, carrots, onions, plums, figs, grapes, yellow fish, pomfret, mackerel, carp, carp, crucian carp, Haliotis gigantea, eel, loach, eggs, Milk, beef, pork, goose, turtle, turtle, duck and so on.
Cool food: millet, barley, wheat, buckwheat, barley, mung beans, tofu, rhododendron, mushrooms, eggplant, white radish, winter melon, squash, rape, spinach, amaranth, celery, tangerines, oranges, apples, pears, duck eggs and so on.
Cold foods: bitter melon, tomatoes, cucumbers, ferns, bamboo shoots, wild rice, lotus root, water chestnuts, sugar cane, persimmons, bananas, mulberries, watermelon, melons, seaweed, kelp, razor clam, snails and so on.
Food according to its "taste" can be divided into five categories: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Among the five flavors, sweet food is the most abundant, followed by salty and sour, less pungent, and the least bitter.
Sweet food: rice and grains, vegetables, dried fruit, chicken, duck, fish and meat.
Sour food: tomatoes, hawthorn, grapes, apricots, lemons, oranges and so on.
Pungent foods: ginger, scallions, onions, chili peppers, leeks, etc.
Salty foods: seafood, pork, dog meat, pig offal, etc.
Bitter foods: bitter melon, bitter vegetables, etc.
Normal diet should be based on sweet food, and the other four flavors to harmonize the taste. When the climate is cold or the wind is cold, you can increase the consumption of hot and pungent food in order to dispel the cold and relieve the surface. When the climate is hot or suffering from feverish diseases, some bitter or cold foods can be added to clear heat and reduce fire. Sour and bitter flavors can be added to the diet to stimulate the appetite and eliminate food. Dietary discretionary addition of salty foods have the effect of tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence.
The so-called food "to the meridian", Dacheng College of Huangdi Neijing health research refers to the different food on the body of the five viscera and six bowels of the body to produce different nourishing and therapeutic effects. For example, the traditional health science that wheat, mung beans, red beans, watermelon, lotus seeds, longan meat, etc. attributed to the heart meridian, have the effect of nourishing the heart and tranquilize the mind. Millet, rice, soybeans, barley, hawthorn, apples, jujubes, etc. are attributed to the spleen meridian, have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Tomatoes, cherries, greens, parsnips, etc. belong to the liver meridian, have the effect of soothing the liver and regulating qi. White radish, carrot, celery, persimmon, ginger, scallion, etc. belong to the lung meridian, beneficial to the lungs to relieve symptoms. Poultry eggs and meat, mulberry, black sesame, wolfberry, etc. to the kidney meridian, have the effect of tonifying the kidney and essence. Traditional health science will also be divided into different types of food, food for nourishing the following four main categories:
Qi tonic food: rice, millet, yellow rice, glutinous rice, barley, wheat, oat, soybeans, white lentils, peas, potatoes, white potatoes, yams, carrots, mushrooms, chicken, beef, rabbit, mackerel, chub fish, etc..
Blood tonic foods: carrots, longan meat, lychee meat, mulberry, blood tofu, animal liver, animal meat, sea cucumber, flatfish and so on.
Yang tonic food: leeks, beans, cowpeas, walnuts, mutton, dog meat, venison, animal kidneys, pigeon eggs, eel, sea shrimp, tamarind and so on.
Yin-nourishing foods: cabbage, pears, grapes, mulberries, goji berries, black sesame, silver ear, black fungus, lily of the valley, milk, pork, turtle, turtle meat, squid fish and so on.