There are many warm foods, such as leeks, cumin, beans, ginger, scallions and so on.
The properties of food are mainly sex, flavor, and meridian, in which “sex” means the nature of cold, hot, warm, and cool. In fact, there are two major categories: cold and cool and warm and hot. Cold and cool, warm and hot are of the same nature, but only differ in degree.
Cold and cool medicinal food is for warm and hot disease or constitution, with the effect of clearing heat, diarrhea, cooling blood, detoxification, etc. It is used for hot disease caused by Yang heat, fire and poison, such as raw huang, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, water chestnuts, pears and so on. Warm and hot medicinal food has the effects of warming the middle and dispelling cold, warming the meridians and collaterals, warming the yang and removing blood stasis, and warming phlegm, drinking water and dampness, and is used for yin and cold illnesses.
In addition, hot and cold properties are not obvious, between the two categories is called flat. The medicinal properties of the flat medicinal food are not harsh and fierce, and the nature is calm, mostly used for health maintenance and toning, and widely used in medicinal diets.
Among them, hot medicines include mustard, chili, pepper, dry ginger, etc.; warm medicines include glutinous rice, chives, scallions, walnuts and so on.
At each time in the intake of food, you need to control the amount of intake, and at the same time try to keep it light, so as not to form irritation to the body as well as the gastrointestinal tract and so on.