Hot foods include: mutton, beef, longan, leek, litchi, ginger, brown sugar and so on.
Warm foods include lentils, vegetables, soybean sprouts, coriander and so on.
The warmth of food is a viewpoint of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese dietotherapy pays attention to the different tastes and effects of food, that is, it uses the superior taste of food to regulate the qi, blood, yin and yang of the human body and enhance the body's resistance to evil, so as to "keep the secret of yin and yang and treat it with spirit."
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The nature of food refers to the "four natures", that is, cold, hot, warm and cool. Hot food is two kinds of "sex" distinguished by traditional Chinese medicine in diet and health preservation. Food has four characteristics: cold, hot, warm and cool. Among them, foods that can alleviate and eliminate cold syndrome are called hot foods. Chinese medicine believes that food has different tastes and functions.
Warm food refers to warm food. People in China pay attention to food supplement, but in food supplement, what they pay attention to is warm, and warm food can be warm. Common warm foods are: flour, soybean oil, wine, vinegar, ginger, onion, garlic and carrot.
Sometimes it is also called warm food, such as chestnuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds, dried litchi, longan and so on.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-hot food? Baidu Encyclopedia-Warm Food