The performance characteristics of food in the Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon also contain the doctrine of the four sexes. The four sexes refer to the four characteristics of food: cold, hot, warm and cool.
Cold and warm are two opposing relationships, and the difference between cold and cool, hot and warm is only the degree of difference. In addition, there is flatness, which means peace. Generally, cold food has the functions of clearing heat, detoxification, ephemeral fire, cooling blood, nourishing yin and so on. Warm food has the functions of warming, dispersing cold, helping the sun, and replenishing fire.
1. Warm food
Warm foods mainly have the effects of dissipating cold in temperature, replenishing fire and helping yang, strengthening the spleen and kidney, and invigorating qi. It is suitable for people with yang deficiency and cold physique, or patients with cold diseases and qi deficiency and yang deficiency.
Warm foods should be eaten appropriately in summer.
glutinous rice
sorghum
Temperature: glutinous rice, sago, sorghum, oats, grain sprouts, rice sprouts, green beans, peaches, oranges, coconut, apricots, jujubes, lychees, laurel balls, bergamot, lemon, bayberry, pomegranate, papaya, betel nut, pine nut kernel, chestnut, walnut kernel, cherry, green onion, garlic, leek, toon, coriander, snow vegetables, onion, pumpkin, ginger, sand kernel, peppercorn, perilla, cumin, cloves, large ingredients, fennel, rice wine, vinegar, black tea, coffee, vegetable oil, sesame oil, Peanut oil, soybean oil, brown sugar, caramel sugar, osmanthus flower.
chili pepper
mutton
Sexual heat: chili, pepper, cinnamon, mustard, white wine, beef, lamb.
Second, cold food
Cold and cold foods have the effects of clearing heat and fire, detoxifying, laxative, dry and damp. It is suitable for people with yin deficiency and yang and hot constitution, or patients with febrile diseases and yin deficiency.
Cool foods can be eaten frequently in summer, and warm foods are needed in other seasons.
Cold foods should be eaten as little as possible, accompanied by warm foods.
kiwi
Watermelon
Cold: Kiwi, watermelon, banana, persimmon, persimmon cake, grapefruit, mulberry, star fruit, fig, sugar cane, melon, bitter melon, water chestnut, cigu, purslane, hollow cabbage, wood ear vegetables, lettuce, bamboo shoots, gourds, grass melon, kelp, seaweed, grass mushrooms, soy sauce, sauce, salt, honeysuckle, bitter tea, aloe vera, ice cream.
millet
mung bean
Cool: millet, wheat, barley, buckwheat, barley, mung bean, pear, aloe mandarin, orange, strawberry (slightly cool), mango, loquat, monk fruit, lotus heart, lily, tomato, celery, water celery, eggplant, rape, spinach, yellow cauliflower, lettuce (lettuce), cauliflower, aloe, tofu, tofu skin, dried tofu, tofu milk, gluten, lotus root, winter melon, sweet potato, loofah, cucumber, wakame, mushroom, enoki mushroom, green tea, honey, royal jelly, hops, locust flower, locust rice, chrysanthemum, milk, Rabbit meat.
3. Peaceful food
Peaceful food is neither cold nor warm, suitable for regular consumption, has nutritional and nourishing effects, can maintain the health of the body, enhance physical fitness, and prevent diseases. Sex flat foods can be eaten all year round.
corn
apple
Sexual flat: rice, corn, soybeans, cowpeas, rice cowpeas, black beans, apples, plums, sand fruits, pineapples, grapes, olives, sunflower seeds, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, white fruits, hazelnuts, hawthorn, yam, radish, carrots, cabbage, artemisia, tempeh, bird's nest, potatoes, taro, ginger, sea stinger, black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, white sugar, rock sugar, soy milk, eggs, pork, crucian carp, pigeon eggs, goji berries, ganoderma lucidum, silver fungus, corn whiskers, poria, sour jujube kernels.