Does Chinese medicine think you can’t eat cold? Why?

Chinese medicine believes that you should not eat too much or long-term consumption of cold, raw and cold products, not that you can not eat cold. It is mainly related to the fact that such food is easy to damage the spleen and stomach.
Chinese medicine believes that we should pay attention to dietary balance, if too much ice cream, cold drinks and other cold food, or crabs, shrimp and other cold food easy to damage the yang qi, leading to the spleen and stomach transport disorder, causing diarrhea, vomiting, acid reflux and other symptoms.
But in the hot weather, or Yin deficiency, hot and humid body, you can choose a moderate amount of cool and moist products, such as mung beans, silver ear, lotus seeds, etc..
It is recommended to adjust the dietary structure according to the individual’s constitution and the different seasons. However, it is not recommended to be too partial to a certain type of food, so as not to affect the health of the body.