When a Westerner hears the term ‘heat’ or ‘heat’, they will probably ask what it is. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this is a common concept related to the balance of ‘yin’ and ‘yang’. Most people, especially Chinese in Asian countries like China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, are familiar with this notion of hot (yang) (as opposed to cool or yin) as it is a Chinese way of expressing a certain set of things. of symptoms or sensations often associated with emotional or physical reactions such as:
o Feelings of irritability;
or bad temper;
Fever;
or Constipation;
o Flushed face or cheeks;
Or dark yellow urine;
or Sore throat;
or nosebleeds;
o Outbreak of pimples and acne;
or Rashes;
o Mouth ulcers;
or indigestion.
Excess “cold” energy in the body, on the contrary, will make us feel weak, lethargic, tired and restless.
Each person’s constitution is influenced by congenital factors as well as acquired lifestyle (eg, diet, stress level, amount of exercise and sleep, living environment), and this varies from person to person . In other words, different foods act on the human body in different ways and affect our state of health. The body’s metabolism, organ function, and organ structure all combine to determine our susceptibility to these hot and cooling effects of food.
Examples of hot and cold foods:
Cool foods (yin):
Bamboo shoot, banana, bitter gourd, clam, crab, grapefruit, lettuce, persimmon, salt, seaweed, star fruit, sugar cane, water chestnut, watermelon, lotus root, cucumber, barley, tofu, chicken egg white , marjoram, oyster , pear, mint, radish, strawberry, tangerine and yogurt, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, corn, tomato, pineapple, turmeric.
Neutral foods (balanced yin and yang):
Corn, abalone, apricot, beef, beetroot, black fungus, carp, carrot, celery, chicken egg yolk, cuttlefish, duck, fig, honey, bean, lotus fruit and seed, milk, olive, oyster, papaya, pork , potato , pumpkin, radish leaf, red bean, plum, sunflower seed, sweet rice, sweet potato, white fungus, yellow soybean, brussels sprouts, snow peas, sweet potato, taro, dates, figs, raspberries, raisins, sage, rosemary , thyme , brown rice, apple.
Hot foods (yang):
Pepper, cinnamon bark, ginger, soybean oil, red and green pepper, chicken, apricot kernel, brown sugar, cherry, chestnut, chives, cinnamon stick, cloves, coconut, coffee, coriander (Chinese parsley), dates, dill seed, eel, garlic, grapefruit peel, green onion, guava, ham, mustard green, leek, longan, lamb, nutmeg, peach, raspberry, rosemary, shrimp, spearmint, sweet basil, tobacco, vinegar, walnut, jackfruit, durian, leek, shallots, spring onion, apricots, mulberry, black currant, mango, peaches, cherry, tangerine, grape.
It also matters how a food is prepared. For example, beef is considered neutral, but if you eat it fried or grilled, it will be considered spicy. In addition, there are some interesting general guidelines to determine if a certain food is hot or cold:
Hot/yang foods:
or grow under the scorching sun;
where they are sweet;
or has a lot of fat;
or rich in sodium;
or they are hard, dry or spicy.
Cold foods/yin:
or grow in little sun;
or are salty;
or they are thin;
or rich in potassium;
or soft and moist;
The heat and cooling effect of food refers to its ability to generate sensations, whether hot or cold, in our body. They do not refer to the state of food but to its effect on our body. For example, tea is a refreshing food. This means that it generates cold energy in our body. To find a balance in the diet, we can efficiently classify foods into yin or yang. Therefore, if you eat yin food efficiently, your body will be able to produce only cold energy, in contrast, eating yang food efficiently produces hotter energy. If a person suffers from cold rheumatism, it would be helpful to eat food with a warm or hot energy. If a person suffers from acne breakouts due to consuming fried foods, it is beneficial to eat cooling foods to counteract the heat and alleviate the symptoms.
The concept of heat is neither significant nor relevant in the Western medicine paradigm. However, some parallel is believed to exist with acid (heat) and alkaline (cooling) balance, or protons and positive charges (heat) and cooling (electrons and negative charges). Medicine evolves. Conventional doctors in the West have long since begun to integrate and learn about alternative medicines or treatments and incorporate them into their practice. Today they believe that these new medical approaches are beneficial and effective in many ways.
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