What are the spicy and cold foods? When our body is uncomfortable, we need to avoid spicy and cold food, so that our body can recover faster. Here are some taboos for you.

1 What are the spicy and cold foods? There are many spicy and cold foods. Cold food mainly refers to cold fruits, ingredients or cold drinks, while spicy food mainly refers to foods with heavy taste.

1. Spicy food: Spicy food mainly includes onion, ginger, garlic pepper, pepper and pepper.

2. Cold food: fruits in cold food include watermelon, tomato, towel gourd and so on. The main ingredients are mung beans, seafood, tofu, wax gourd, bitter gourd and so on. Drinks mainly include ice water, ice cream and iced drinks.

In daily life, patients are advised to avoid eating too much spicy and cold food, especially during taking medicine when they are sick. They can choose proper amount of fruits and vegetables, eat some harmless food and do more physical exercise to enhance their immunity and reduce the occurrence of diseases. If the patient has any physical discomfort, please go to the nearest regular hospital for corresponding physical examination immediately, and carry out corresponding treatment according to the examination results. Patients should not blindly use drugs, so as not to cause inevitable physical harm.

What does it mean to avoid spicy and cold eating Chinese medicine?

In fact, Chinese medicine pays attention to taboos, but it is not absolute, which depends on many factors such as the patient's condition, physical condition and the characteristics of Chinese medicine used by doctors.

Generally speaking, spicy food refers to warm and spicy food such as pepper, pepper, garlic and onion, which has the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating the spleen and appetizing, expelling wind and removing dampness, and promoting digestion. However, if the patient's disease is warm and toxic, it is not recommended to use spicy food more.

Cold things generally refer to foods with the function of clearing heat and purging fire, such as chrysanthemum, bitter gourd, kiwi fruit, cucumber, watermelon and other foods. If you are a person with spleen and stomach deficiency, abdominal pain and diarrhea, you should not eat these foods.

Apple is sweet and cool, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, moistening lung, relieving summer heat and appetizing. The degree of coldness is not great, so it can be eaten as appropriate after meals according to your own situation. Yogurt is nutritious and can help digestion. You can drink it in moderation, but for people with weak spleen and stomach, it should be noted that yogurt just taken out of the refrigerator should not be drunk immediately, otherwise it will stimulate the gastrointestinal tract.

There are many kinds of foods to avoid spicy and cold, and different foods are naturally different. In the choice of food, it is suggested to choose some foods that are harmless to the body, such as bananas, crabs, shrimps, seafood, kiwis and watermelons. These foods are cold onions, ginger, garlic and peppers, which are spicy foods and should be avoided.

What are the spicy and cold foods? Spicy and cold foods include onions, garlic and celery.

1. Onion: It has the functions of expelling wind, rising yang and sweating, and can treat and prevent colds. Green onions also have the functions of stimulating appetite, relaxing blood vessels and promoting blood circulation. Its bactericidal effect is also very good, because it contains a lot of capsaicin and other substances, which has a strong bactericidal effect and can stimulate specific glands to achieve the purpose of sterilization and excretion. Rich in selenium, it can reduce carcinogens in the human body and has a certain preventive effect on prostate cancer.

2. Garlic: It has detoxification and insecticidal effects. Garlic is rich in allicin, which can enhance the body's immunity, prevent the formation of lipid peroxide, resist mutation and eliminate intestinal tumors. It also has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and can inhibit and kill a variety of cocci, bacilli and fungi. Therefore, eating garlic regularly has the functions of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, detoxifying and clearing intestines, and sterilizing.

3, celery: celery has the effect of lowering blood pressure, diuresis and calming the nerves. Celery contains alkaline antihypertensive ingredients, which can lower blood pressure. In addition, celery also has diuretic effect, which can effectively eliminate the retention of sodium in the body, diuretic and detumescence, thus lowering blood pressure. It is recommended that people with deficiency-cold constitution eat a small amount.

Taboo raw and cold foods mainly include the following:

1. Cold foods: such as cold drinks, sorbets and cold beer are all raw and cold foods. If you eat too much, it is easy to hurt the yang of the spleen and stomach, and then there will be symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, abdominal distension and indigestion. If you eat too much cold food, it may further hurt the whole body yang, leading to cold hands and feet, mental fatigue and easy fatigue;

2, cold food: food that will damage the human yang is also cold food, such as melons, watermelons, pears and other fruits. If you eat too much, it will hurt your spleen and stomach. In addition, mung beans, celery and bananas are also raw and cold foods, and the intake should be strictly controlled.

3 1 What are the spicy and cold foods? Spicy food (xēn làshíwù) refers to spicy and strongly irritating food, including onion, garlic, leek, ginger, wine, pepper, cinnamon, star anise and fennel.

2. Spicy foods that may have adverse reactions with drugs include ginger, fennel, celery, perilla, dried leaves of deer medicine, ginger powder, ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort, etc. Patients should be careful.

3. Cold food refers to raw food, and uncooked cold food belongs to cold food. It also includes cold foods mentioned by Chinese medicine, most of which have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing yin and reducing fire.

Taboos for certain periods or diseases.

1, patients during radiotherapy:

Because radiation is a "hot poison", it is not advisable to eat spicy and hard foods that are easy to get angry at this time, such as fried food, dog meat, mutton, venison, nuts, lychee, longan, pepper, pepper and star anise, so as not to aggravate the side effects of radiotherapy.

2. Patients with liver cirrhosis and liver cancer:

Because there may be esophageal varices at the bottom of the stomach, it is easy to cause varicose veins to rupture and bleed, which is life-threatening. Therefore, these patients should not eat hard and rough products, such as old corn and iron broad beans. When eating fish and ribs, they also need to be careful and boneless, so they should chew slowly to avoid rough and sharp things piercing the varicose veins on the stomach and esophageal mucosa and causing massive bleeding.

3. Edema patients:

You should eat less salty food and less salt, otherwise it will aggravate edema.

4. Diarrhea patients:

Avoid cold products, such as cold drinks, fruits, greasy foods, and greasy foods such as spinach, radish, leeks and honey, otherwise it will aggravate diarrhea.

5. Patients with renal failure and advanced liver cancer:

At this time, we need to limit the intake of protein, so we should eat less protein-rich foods, including animal protein and plant protein, such as all kinds of meat, seafood, tofu and bean products.