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Heaty & Cooling Foods
Heaty & Cooling Foods
By Ruth Tan
• Irritability
• Short temperedness
• Fever
• Constipation
• Sore throat
• Nose bleed
• Rashes
• Mouth ulcers
• Indigestion
weak
lethargic
tired
restless
Corn, abalone, apricot, beef, beetroot, black fungus, carp, carrot, celery,
chicken egg yolk, cuttlefish, duck, fig, honey, kidney 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.
Pepper, cinnamon bark, ginger, soybean oil, red and green pepper,
chicken, apricot seed, brown sugar, cherry, chestnut, chive, cinnamon
twig, clove, coconut, coffee, coriander (Chinese parsley), date, dillseed,
eel, garlic, grapefruit peel, green onion, guava, ham, leaf mustard, leek,
longan, mutton, nutmeg, peach, raspberry, rosemary, shrimp, spearmint,
sweet basil, tobacco, vinegar, walnut, jackfruit, durian, leek, shallots,
spring onion, , apricots, blackberries, black currant, mangoes, peaches,
cherry, mandarin orange, grape.
Heaty/yang foods:
• are sweet
• have lots of fats
• rich in sodium
Cold/yin foods:
• are salty
• are lean
• rich in potassium