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Which foods are warm and which are cold?
Chinese dietotherapy attaches importance to the different tastes and functions of food, that is, it adjusts the qi, blood, yin and yang of the human body with the superiority of food taste, and strengthens the body's resistance to evil, with a view to "yin and yang are secret, and spirit is the rule."
The nature of food refers to the "four natures", that is, cold, hot, warm and cool. Cool and cold, warm and hot, have certain similarity in function. Only slightly different in the size of the role. In addition, some foods have a peaceful diet, which is called flatness. Foods that can alleviate or eliminate heat syndrome are cold and cool; Foods that can alleviate and eliminate cold syndrome are warm. It is generally believed that cold and cool foods have the functions of clearing away heat, purging fire and detoxifying, and are often used for heat-induced diseases. Most warm foods have the functions of warming middle warmer, supporting yang and dispelling cold, and are often used for cold syndrome. Plain food has the functions of strengthening the spleen, appetizing and tonifying the body.
Warm foods include: ginger, scallion and coriander, which are suitable for cold, fever, aversion to cold, runny nose and headache; Dry ginger and black tea suitable for abdominal pain, vomiting and hot drinks; Suitable for chilli and wine with symptoms such as limb cold, chills and rheumatic joint pain.
Sexual foods include: rice, soybeans, black sesame, peanuts, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, carrots, onions, black fungus, lemon pork, theme, eggs, carp, crucian carp, loach, yellow croaker and pomfret in fish. In addition, the milk we drink in our daily life is also a kind of flat food.
Cold foods include buckwheat, corn, white radish, wax gourd, mushrooms, celery, lettuce, rape, oranges, apples and so on.
Cold foods include: millet, mung beans, kelp, mung bean sprouts, bitter gourd, tomatoes, cucumbers, bananas, watermelons, melons and so on.
1, alkaline food
Alkaline foods contain more metal elements such as sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium. It should be understood that all sour fruits and bean products are alkaline foods instead of acidic foods, and alkaline foods are considered as foods with cosmetic effects.
Tofu, milk, celery, potatoes, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, carrots, kelp, mung beans, bananas, watermelons, strawberries and most vegetables and fruits are alkaline.
The "acidity and alkalinity" of food will affect the posture and skin fitness.
It has been determined that the weakly alkaline foods are: tofu, peas, soybeans, mung beans, rape, celery, sweet potatoes, lotus roots, onions, eggplant, pumpkins, cucumbers, mushrooms, radishes, milk and so on. The alkaline foods are spinach, cabbage, cabbage, lettuce, carrot, bamboo shoot, potato, kelp, citrus, watermelon, grape, banana, strawberry, millet, persimmon, coffee and wine. There are also some foods that people mistakenly regard as acidic foods because they taste sour, such as mountain plants, tomatoes, vinegar, etc. In fact, these things are typical alkaline foods.
Eat more alkaline food. It is found that eating more alkaline food can keep the blood weakly alkaline, reduce acid substances such as lactic acid and urea in the blood, and prevent them from depositing on the tube wall, thus softening blood vessels. Therefore, some people call alkaline food "a cleaner for blood and blood vessels". The acidity and alkalinity mentioned here is not the nature of the food itself, but the nature of the elements left in the body after digestion and absorption. Common acidic elements are nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, etc. Common alkaline elements are potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and so on. Some foods taste very sour, such as tomatoes and oranges, but they are all strongly alkaline foods, because the final element after their metabolism in the body is potassium.
2. Acidic food
Acidic food refers to the food that contains inorganic salts such as phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and other elements that can form acid in human body, and can make body fluids acidic. Common foods include meat, fish, poultry, eggs, peanuts, hazelnuts and walnuts in cereals and hard fruits in protein. Specifically: pork, beef, chicken, egg yolk, carp, eel, dried squid, shrimp, rice, flour, bread, barley, beer, asparagus and so on. Although you lack acidic food in your body, you can't just supplement it, because medicine has proved that when we eat a large amount of acidic food containing chlorine, sulfur, phosphorus and so on, it is extremely difficult for our blood to maintain a weak alkaline state, which is prone to acidosis.
The so-called "warm" food refers to the food that can warm the body, such as onion, leek and cabbage. The so-called "hot" food means that it is easier to warm the body than warm food, which generally refers to some spicy spices and the like. Chinese medicine believes that warm food is good for the skin, and in autumn, we should pay more attention to protecting the yang. Therefore, the autumn diet can be warmed up, and eating more beef and mutton, lotus seed porridge, medlar and other foods can warm up the qi and blood, moisturize the viscera, and care for the skin. Warm foods that dispel cold and help yang are often high in calories, and it is easy to accumulate heat in the body after eating. Regular eating will lead to vigorous lung fire, manifested as dry mouth and dry tongue. How can we suppress the dryness? Chinese medicine believes that it is best to choose some "sweet and cold" foods, that is, foods with cooler properties. And "cold" food refers to the food that can make the body cold, including eggplant, tomato, cucumber and other foods. If the nature of food is between "warm" and "cold", it is called "flat" food. For example, white radish and eggs are "flat" foods.
There are many cool foods in daily life, such as rabbit meat, chicken, duck meat, eggs, kelp, honey, sesame, tremella, lotus seeds, lily, white radish, Chinese cabbage, celery, spinach, winter bamboo shoots, bananas, apples and so on. Professor Gan said that these foods are best eaten with warm foods, which is good for the body. Cucumber vegetables, except pumpkin and cucumber, are warm, and others, such as bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, vegetable melon, watermelon and melon, are cool vegetables. Tomato, eggplant, celery, chrysanthemum brain, sunflower (purple leaf), lettuce, asparagus, watercress, cold potato, etc. are also cool vegetables.
The warm and cold properties of fruit
Hot fruit: suitable for cold constitution
Liulian, black jujube
Warm fruit: suitable for cold constitution
Mango, litchi, peach, longan, rambutan, peach, chestnut, Sakyamuni, coconut meat, kumquat, ebony, cherry, jujube,
Plum (tepid)
Flat fruit: suitable for all kinds of physique
Passion fruit, lemon, guava, avocado, pineapple, grape, lotus mist, orange, sugarcane, papaya, olive, plum and Indian jujube.
Cool fruit: suitable for hot constitution
Pitaya, pear, apple, carambola, mangosteen, grapefruit, strawberry and loquat
Cold fruit: suitable for hot constitution
Tomato (slightly cold), watermelon, banana, kiwi fruit, melon, grapefruit, orange, persimmon, coconut water and mulberry.
Food attribute
Cold food: animal-horse meat, crabs, oysters and clams.
Plant-eggplant, lotus root, cucumber, cabbage. Fruit-persimmon, watermelon, pineapple, pear.
Seasoning-vermicelli, salt, yellow sauce, soy sauce.
Cold food: animal-eggs, quail eggs.
Plants-bamboo shoots, cauliflower, radish, spinach, coix seed.
Fruits-oranges, melons, cantaloupes and apples.
Drink-tea.
Sexual food: animal-egg yolk, milk, carp, flatfish, cod, sea urchin yellow, squid.
Plants-carrots, cabbages, broad beans, peas, yams, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, mushrooms, japonica rice, wheat, soybeans and adzuki beans.
Fruits-peanuts, ginkgo, figs, strawberries and plums.
Seasoning-honey, sugar.
Temperate food: animal-beef, chicken, mutton, pork liver, eel, salmon, herring, sardines, tuna, shrimp and scallops.
Plant-leek, garlic, onion, pumpkin, asparagus, sesame.
Fruits-walnuts, chestnuts, apricots, plums and dried tangerines.
Seasoning-anise and mustard. )
Hot food: animal fat, cheese, ham, sausage.
Seasoning-ginger, pepper, pepper, wine, coffee and vinegar.
Cold food: commonly used are mulberry, purslane, dandelion, bitter vegetable, Chinese cabbage, day lily, wax gourd, watermelon, bitter gourd, crab, seaweed, kelp, salt and so on.
Hot food: commonly used are pepper, pepper, cinnamon, dried ginger, wine vinegar, fennel, broad bean, coriander, mutton, dog meat, cat meat, venison and so on.
Warm food: commonly used are mustard, pumpkin, green onion, onion, garlic, leek, carrot, ginger, peach, litchi, longan, orange, papaya, plum, lotus seed, sugar, jujube, grape, glutinous rice, walnut kernel, dark plum, scented tea, oolong tea, honey, beef, chicken and duck.
Cold food: commonly used are pear, banana, banana, 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.
Plain food: commonly used are soybeans, sesame seeds, yams, peanuts, lilies, soybeans, corn, peas, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, gourds, lentils, wheat, japonica rice, glutinous rice, apples, loquats, tamarind, mushrooms, honey, sugar, carp, turtles, eggs, duck eggs and pork.
Five characteristics of fruit
"Cold, cool, flat, warm and hot" are the five characteristics of fruit. The classification of five natures can make you more obviously choose to eat fruits with different natures according to your physique. If you belong to a cold constitution, you are not suitable for eating too many cold fruits, otherwise it will only make things worse, which will lead to physical discomfort and violate the original intention of fruit health.
U cold and coolness
Cold and cool fruits can clear away heat and fire, moisten the lungs and remove dryness. After eating, it will reduce the energy metabolism rate of the human body and promote the decrease of calories. It is suitable for people with heat constitution and heat symptoms.
Cold and cool fruits include: melon, watermelon, persimmon, banana, coconut, strawberry, pear, loquat and so on.
U temperature and thermal properties
Warm and hot fruits can dispel cold and tonify deficiency, eliminate cold syndrome, increase human heat and promote energy metabolism. Suitable for people with cold constitution and cold symptoms.
Warm and hot fruits include bayberry, pomegranate, peach, mango, longan, litchi, jujube and so on.
U flatness
Flat fruit can stimulate appetite, strengthen spleen, tonify deficiency and strengthen kidney, and is easy to digest. It is suitable for people of any constitution, and can be eaten for a long time by those who are physically strong.
Flat fruits include: grapes, apples, lemons, olives, pineapples, carambolas, coconuts, etc.
Fruits containing cold are: watermelon, pear, grapefruit, grapefruit, coconut, orange, hard persimmon, mangosteen and tomato.
Hot fruits include longan, litchi, mango and durian.
The fruits are guava, apple, grape, orange, papaya, strawberry, cherry and mulberry.
When the body is uncomfortable, there is a cold phenomenon, and cold and hot fruits should be eaten less. At this time, you can eat a little more fruit.
What are warm and cool foods?
I. Food Group
Warmth-flour, sorghum, glutinous rice, coix seed and their products.
Cold and cool-buckwheat, millet, barley, highland barley, mung bean and their products.
Sex-rice, canned rice, corn, sweet potato, red bean and their products.
Second, the vegetable group
Warm nature-lentils, vegetables, yellow sprouts, mustard greens, coriander, pepper, leek, pumpkin, garlic sprout, garlic moss, garlic, green onion, ginger, cooked lotus root and cooked white radish.
Cold and cool-celery, wax gourd, raw lotus root, raw radish, amaranth, cucumber, bitter gourd, eggplant, loofah, water bamboo, arrowhead, laver, day lily (dried), kelp, bamboo shoot, winter bamboo shoot, chrysanthemum, wormwood herb, Malantou, potato, mung bean sprout, spinach and rape.
Sex-cabbage, tomato, cowpea, string bean, taro, chicken hair, cauliflower, coconut flower, black fungus, sword bean, tremella, yam, pine nut, sesame, carrot, onion, mushroom, shiitake mushroom, broad bean, peanut, edamame, soybean and soybean sprout.
Third, the animal food group
Warm sex-mutton, dog meat, Monopterus albus, river shrimp, sea shrimp, sparrow meat, goose eggs, pig liver.
Cold and cool-duck meat, rabbit meat, river crab, snail meat, snail meat, horse meat, oyster meat, duck eggs, clam.
Sex-pork, goose, carp, herring, crucian carp, silver carp, eel, shad, yellow croaker, hairtail, abalone, turtle, loach, jellyfish, squid, chicken blood, eggs, pigeon eggs, quail meat, quail eggs, sea cucumber and bird's nest.
Four, milk and dairy products, soybeans and soybean products group
Warmth-cheese.
Cold sex-milk.
Sex-soy milk, soy products.
V. Fruit Group
Warm sex-litchi, longan, peach, jujube, bayberry, walnut, apricot, orange and cherry.
Cold and cool-bananas, watermelons, pears, oranges, persimmons, fresh lilies, sugarcane, grapefruit, hawthorn, mango, kiwi, kumquat, Siraitia grosvenorii, mulberry, carambola, cantaloupe, raw water chestnut and raw water chestnut.
Flat-apple, grape, lemon, ebony, loquat, olive, plum, sour plum, begonia, pineapple, pomegranate, fig, cooked water chestnut, cooked water chestnut and fig.
Six, other foods
(1) Dried fruits:
Warm category-chestnuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds, dried litchi, longan.
Sex-peanuts, lotus seeds, euryales, hazelnuts, pine nuts, lilies, ginkgo, jujube, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, sesame seeds and olives.
(2) Condiments:
Warmth-wine, vinegar, fermented grains, brown sugar, maltose, mustard, fennel, pepper, sweet-scented osmanthus, black tea and coffee.
Cold and cool-sauce, rose, lobster sauce, salt, green tea.
Sex-sugar, honey, cocoa.
Seven, according to the attributes of food, reasonable arrangement of meals.
People's physique has different attributes, some are hot in summer dishes and some are cold; Food also has different natural properties: warmth, coldness and peace. People with different constitutions should choose foods suitable for their constitutions.
For example, people with heavy internal heat choose flat or cold food dishes to make home-cooked dishes, and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach choose warm or flat food. Flat food is suitable for a wide range of summer dishes. Summer dishes can be eaten regardless of physical fitness.
The food for three meals a day should not be all hot or all cold, so we should pay attention to the reasonable collocation of summer dishes and keep the balance of food attributes. If the dishes you eat are hot, you can eat cold or flat fruits.
In addition to the nature of food, different cooking methods and cooking materials can change the nature of food to varying degrees. If the recipes such as stewing, roasting, stewing, frying, burning and stewing are used, the cold food can become warm; Choosing pictures of seasoning dishes such as onion, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, pepper and cooking wine can also change the nature of cold food.
We should flexibly and dynamically allocate different attributes of food, delicious dishes, dishes, pictures, dishes and dishes according to our actual physical condition, and choose reasonable cooking methods. Such as braised eggplant with garlic, so that the nature of the dish will not be too cold; Red hot pot summer dishes, home-cooked dishes, can choose cool celery, spinach, mushrooms, river fish slices and other dishes to make, in order to maintain a balance of home-cooked dishes delicious dishes, to overcome the negative impact of diet on health.
Generally speaking, in cooking, we should choose flat and cool foods as the main home-cooked dishes and delicious dishes in summer, but the opposite is true in winter.
It is very simple to judge the attributes of seasonal vegetables, that is, vegetables grown in summer are generally cooler, while summer dishes and recipes are hotter in winter, and so are fruits; Some vegetables and delicious dishes grown in greenhouses are home-cooked dishes, and their seasonality is no longer obvious, but their food attributes are basically preserved.
However, this seasonal principle is generally home-cooked dishes. Although it is winter and summer dishes to make pictures of home-cooked dishes, the recipes for a week in a row are hot and will be harmful to the health. A better way is to properly adjust the arrangement of breakfast, lunch, dinner or recipes within a week, so that the food attributes tend to be balanced, and it is also easy to implement the principle of food diversification.
Bitter gourd, tomato, Zizania latifolia, water chestnut, water chestnut, lily, lotus root, bamboo shoot, arrowhead, konjac, water spinach, dandelion, Patrinia, houttuynia cordata, purslane, bracken, sowthistle, shepherd's purse, Toona sinensis, water shield and snakehead.
Tropism and eating method of warm food
Tropism of warm food:
Glutinous rice: warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Zongzi, glutinous rice porridge, glutinous rice pancakes, glutinous rice wine,
Sorghum: warm in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, and belongs to spleen and stomach meridians. Sorghum wine, sorghum porridge, sorghum rice stew,
Leek: warm in nature, sweet and pungent in taste, entering kidney, stomach and liver meridians. Vegetable code, scrambled eggs, fried shrimps, stuffing (jiaozi with leeks and eggs or steamed stuffed buns or pies, jiaozi with leeks and pork), soup,
Coriander: warm in nature, pungent in taste, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Make soup, stuffing,
Garlic: warm in nature, pungent and sweet in taste, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians.
Onion: warm in nature, pungent in taste, entering lung and stomach meridians. Chopped green onion, dipping sauce, stuffing, chopped green onion cake,
Ginger: slightly warm in nature, pungent in taste, and enters the lung, stomach and spleen meridians. Ginger syrup,
Pumpkin: warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to spleen and stomach meridians. Pumpkin stew rice, steamed pumpkin, stir-fry, pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie,
Litchi: slightly warm in nature, sweet and slightly sour in taste, and belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridian.
Fructus Citri Tangerinae: slightly warm in nature, pungent and sour in taste, entering lung, stomach and liver meridians. It can resolve phlegm, quench thirst, regulate qi and relieve depression.
Pig liver: warm in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, entering liver meridian.
Pork belly: warm in nature, sweet and slightly sour in taste, and belongs to spleen and stomach meridians.
Yellow beef: warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to spleen and stomach meridians.
Mutton: warm in nature, sweet in taste, spleen and kidney meridians entered. Mutton bread in soup, mutton fried with onion, radish mutton soup, instant-boiled mutton, roast mutton, mutton skewers, mutton balls, mutton jiaozi, mutton offal soup, braised mutton soup, braised mutton.
Dog meat: warm in nature and salty in taste, and belongs to spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.
Chicken: warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the spleen and stomach.
Chicken liver: mild in nature, sweet in taste, liver and kidney meridians entered.
Grass carp: warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to spleen and stomach meridians.
Hairtail: warm in nature and sweet in taste, entering the spleen and stomach meridians.
Shrimp: warm in nature, sweet in taste, entering liver and kidney meridians. Boiled shrimp, shrimp dumplings, shrimp soup, shrimp rape, fried shrimp.
Sea cucumber: warm in nature, sweet and salty in taste, entering liver and kidney meridians. Stewed chicken with sea cucumber, fried sea cucumber with scallion, sea cucumber bean curd pot,
Wine: warm in nature, pungent and sweet in taste, and belongs to heart, heart, lung and stomach meridians. Stir-fried dishes, stewed chicken, stewed ribs,
Brown sugar: warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridian. Ginger syrup, brown sugar water, boiled eggs dipped in brown sugar.
Maltose: warm in nature, sweet in taste, entering the spleen, stomach and lung meridians.
Chestnuts: warm in nature and sweet in taste; Meridian of spleen, stomach and kidney. Nourishing stomach and spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Boiled chestnuts, fried chestnuts, chestnut porridge.
Snow mustard: warm in nature and sweet in taste; Meridian of human liver, stomach and kidney.
Scallion: pungent, warm. Return to lung and stomach meridian.
Papaya: sour, warm. Liver and spleen meridian.
Fennel: Xin, Wen. Liver, kidney, spleen and stomach meridian.
Alpinia officinarum: pungent, warm, spleen and stomach meridian.
Clove: pungent, warm, spleen, stomach and kidney meridians entered.
Kidney bean: sweet, warm. Entering stomach and kidney meridians.
Litchi seed: sweet, astringent, warm. Liver and stomach meridians entered.
Bergamot: pungent, bitter and warm. Liver, spleen, stomach and lung meridians entered.
Orange peel: pungent, bitter and warm. Spleen and lung meridian.
Hawthorn: sour, sweet, slightly warm. Enter spleen, stomach and liver meridians.
Chinese rose: sweet and warm. Meridian of liver.
Almond: Bitter, slightly warm and slightly toxic. Return to lung, large intestine meridian.
Maltose: sweet, warm. Spleen, stomach and lung meridian.
Jujube: sweet, warm. Spleen and stomach meridian.
Lentils: Sweet, slightly warm. Spleen and stomach meridian.
Yam: sweet, flat. Enter spleen, lung and kidney meridians.
Codonopsis pilosula: sweet, slightly warm. Spleen and lung meridian.
Leek seed: pungent, sweet and warm. Liver and kidney meridian.
Yellow dog kidney: salty and warm. Meridian of kidney.
Walnut meat: sweet, warm, lung, kidney and large intestine meridian.
Ridge: Bitter, sweet and warm. Liver and kidney meridian.
Longan meat: sweet and warm. Return to heart, spleen meridian.
Polygonum multiflorum Thunb: sweet, bitter, astringent, slightly warm. Liver and kidney meridian.
Pomegranate skin: sour, astringent and warm. Return to stomach, large intestine meridian.
Garlic: pungent, warm, spleen, stomach, lung and large intestine meridian.
Roses: sweet, slightly bitter, warm. Liver and spleen meridians entered.
Old duck, sweet, warm and non-toxic, enters the spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians. Function of nourishing yin and enriching blood.