Cold food helps the body to get rid of heat. It also helps to remove toxins in the inner environment. People who have an inner environment with a cold manifestation are likely to have the following symptoms: Feel cold, cold hands and feet, aching knees resulting from coldness, like hot weather and dislike cold weather, inconstant urine, faeces with undigested food in it, deficient in energy, depressed, need lots of sleep, in favour of hot food, pale face
Hot food helps to warm up the stomach , clear coldness, and strengthen the body. People who have an inner environment with a hot manifestation are likely to have the following symptoms: like cold weather, dislike hot weather, hot in five “little centres” (two palms, two feet and chest), thirsty with dry throat, feel stressed, upset and nervous, insomnia, like to eat cold food.
Hot food
Meat: beef, pork, chicken, duck.
Seafood: Prawns, butterfish, carp
Vegetable: Ginger, garlic, onion, leek, carrot, pumpkin, taro, sweet potato, corn, cabbage, spinach, broccoli, potato, chilli, green beans, beans.
Fruit: Plum, papaya, grape, jujube, orange, peach, apple, rockmelon, litchi, walnuts, fig, mango, grapefruit, cherry
Soybean oil
Cold food
Seafood: Clams, crab, oyster
Vegetable: Chinese cabbage, bai cai, cucumber, melon, fresh mushroom, bamboo shoot (Australian), radish, kelp, seaweed, celery, tofu, bitter melon, eggplant, tomato, bean sprouts
Fruit: Pear, watermelon, kiwi, banana, pomegranate, apricot, loquat, mandarin, persimmon, lemon, strawberry, pineapple.
Cool food
Cucumber, apple, barley, bean curd, chicken egg white, Chinese wax gourd, common button mushroom, eggplant, Job's tears, lily flower, loquat, mandarin orange, marjoram, mung bean, oyster, pear, peppermint, radish, sesame oil, spinach, strawberry, tangerine, wheat, wheat bran, cream, yogurt and cheese.
Neutral food
Corn, abalone, apricot, beef, beetroot, black fungus, black sesame seed, black soybean, cabbage (Chinese), carp, carrot, castor bean, celery, chicken egg yolk, cuttlefish, dry mandarin orange peel, duck, fig, grape, honey, horse bean, kidney bean, kohlrabi, licorice, lotus fruit and seed, milk, olive, oyster, papaya, peanuts, pineapple, plum, rice, pork, potato, pumpkin, radish leaf, red bean, rice bran, Japanese mushroom, sour plum, sunflower seed, sweet rice, sweet potato, taro, white fungu, sugar, yellow soybean.
Warm food
Chicken, apricot seed, brown sugar, caraway, carp, cherry, chestnut, chive, cinnamon twig, clove, coconut, coffee, coriander (Chinese parsley), date, dillseed, eel, fennel, garlic, ginger (fresh), ginseng, grapefruit peel, green onion, guava, ham, kumquat, leaf mustard, leek, litchi, longan, maltose, mutton, nutmeg, peach, raspberry, rosemary, shrimp, spearmint, squash, star anise, sweet basil, sword bean, tobacco, vinegar, walnut, wine.
Foods for fighting Cold
Turmeric, Garlic, Pumpkins, Ginger, Honey, Hot Peppers, tomatoes
Chicken Soup, Sweet Potato
Oranges, Grapefruit
Green tea
A daily routine of high-fat, high-sugar junk foods, skipped meals and lots of caffeine can make you more susceptible to minor illnesses like colds and flu. Instead, make sure you eat plenty of whole grains, fruit, vegetables and low-fat protein to keep your immune system strong.
