Although the summer cold fruits are more, but in many fruits, like lychee, cinnamon, apricot, etc. belong to the warm is also quite popular. Summer warm fruits: lychee, peach, longan, guava, cherry, coconut, durian, apricot and so on.
From the nutritional point of view of Chinese medicine, fruits can be divided into two categories: cold and hot. Usually, some of the "fire" more prosperous people metabolism, sympathetic nerve sensitivity, sweating, easy mouth ulcers or constipation, often eat cold fruits can help reduce the fire detoxification, but excessive consumption of cold fruits will lead to qi deficiency and spleen and stomach discomfort. Therefore, patients with weak qi deficiency should be more cautious when consuming cold fruits in moderation.
What Chinese medicine calls hot fruits refer to fruits that are high in calories and sugar. For example, jujube, hawthorn, cherry, pomegranate, lychee, green fruit, durian, papaya, orange, mandarin, white fruit, etc. are all warm and hot fruits. There are also:
Cool fruits: watermelon, melon, pear, citrus, orange, banana, sangkan, persimmon, water chestnut and so on.
Neutral fruits: grapes, apples, peaches, apricots, pineapple, longan, sugar cane, umeboshi and so on.
Additionally, there are hot and cold vegetables:
Summer vegetables, except for pumpkins and squash, which are warm, most of them are cool vegetables. Such as bitter melon, cucumber, watermelon, melon, squash, vegetable gourd, tomato, eggplant, celery, purple horn leaf, lettuce, asparagus, lettuce, asparagus, etc., are cool vegetables. There are also mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, cabbage, lotus root, and more.
Hot vegetables: chili peppers (know less, hot get more food)
Warm vegetables: garlic, pumpkin, ginger, capers, green onions, leeks, parsley, onions.