Ren Xin Tang | TCM | Chinese Medicine | Acupuncture  中文   6-5588-101 enquiry@beijing101hair.com     Types of Heaty & Cooling Herbs The Materia Medica Women Hair Care Our TCM Practitioners Our Services Our Products Chinese Herbology LingZhi Cordyceps Sinensis Bai Feng Wan Ginseng             Visit our sister company Characteristics of food in our daily lives In Chinese diet, the notion of cooling and heatiness is related to the balancing of 'yin' and 'yang'. To most people, especially the Chinese, such concepts are very much part of the indigenous culture and are commonly used as a form of expressing certain set of symptoms or sensations often associated with emotional or physical reactions. The energies of foods refer to their capacity to generate sensations - either hot or cold - in the human body. The five kinds of energy are cold, hot, warm, cool and neutral, and this refers not to the state of the food but its effect on our bodies. For example, tea has a cold energy. This means that when we drink hot tea, it generates cold energy and it is therefore considered a cold beverage. Shortly after you have drunk hot tea, the heat begins to fade quickly and it begins to generate cold energy internally, allowing your body to cool off. Here are some examples of common foods with different energies. Dairy / Beans / Nuts Vegetables Fruits Meat Seasoning Seafood   Heaty Food Glutinous rice Sorghum Ginger Garlic Onion Parsley Chives Coriander Pumpkin Papaya Mango Bergamot Longan Apricot Cherry Pomegranate Lychee Walnut Chestnut Citron Cherry Ebony   Deer meat Chicken Mutton Pig (stomach) Mustard Pepper Chili Eel Mussels Salmon Shrimp Clams Sea cucumbers Multi-spring fish Trout Sea urchins   Neutral Food Oats Milk White rice Brown rice Corn Red beans Green beans Black beans Soya beans Broad beans Black-eye beans Adzuki beans Cashew nuts Peanuts Lentils Peas Snow peas Pistachios Black sesame Eggs Quail eggs Lentils   Sweet potato Lily Spinach Mushrooms Cabbage Carrot Broccoli Black fungus White fungus Crown daisy Eggplant Olive Ginkgo Lotus root   Grapes Strawberry Blueberry Avocado Guava Fig Pumpkin seeds White melon Pig (meat, lung, meat, kidney, hoof) Beef Duck Quail meat Pigeon meat   Fish Cod fish Tuna Octopus Turtle meat Pomfret fish Yellow croakers Dace Carp   Cooling Food Barley Wheat Tofu Millet Mung Beans Cucumber Lettuce Sugar cane Seaweed Water chestnuts Bamboo shoots White radish Asparagus Spinach Celery Watercress Bamboo fungus Arrowhead Kudzu Trickle Vegetables Bracken Nostoc Banana Watermelon Honeydew Lemon Oranges Mangosteen Pineapple Melon Kiwi Star fruit Grapefruit Dragon fruit Bitter melon Persimmon Mulberry Pork Duck Egg Rabbit meat Frog meat   Raw fish Crab Escargot Kelp It is important to know about the energies of food because different energies act upon the human body in different ways and affect our state of health. If a person suffers from cold rheumatism and the pain is particularly severe on cold days, eating foods with a warm or hot energy shall relieve the pain considerably. Or if a person suffers from skin eruptions that worsen when exposed to heat, it is beneficial to eat food with a cold or cool energy to relieve symptoms. To seek a balance in diet, we can define food as predominantly yin (cold) or yang (hot). If you eat predominantly yin foods, your body will be capable of producing only yin energy - darker, slower-moving and colder. In contrast, eating predominantly yang foods produces yang energy - faster, hotter and much more energetic.        © Ren Xin Tang 2009-2020. All Rights Reserved. Website by Whatz Next.