Different kinds of food

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.