Chinese Medicine- Hot Foods/Cold Foods

COLD VEGETABLES: Asparagus * Bean Sprouts * Bok Choy * Cauliflower # Celery * ChineseCabbage Chrysanthemum Cucumber * DANDELION leaf Eggplant SEAWEED Snow peas# Turnip Water chestnuts Whitemushroom* White peony root Zucchini FRUITS: Banana * Blueberry Cantaloupe Cranberry Grapefruit Kiwi Lemon * Mango Mulberry Persimmon Plum# PINEAPPLE* Rhubarb Tangerine Tomato* Watermelon GRAINS: Wheat germ MEAT: Clam * Crab * Octopus SPICES: Salt* White pepper. MISC: Soy sauce* Sugar cane Tofu*	COOL VEGETABLES: Alfalfa sprouts Artichoke Bamboo * Bitter Gourd Broccoli * Cabbage * Carrot# Cook. Lettuce Cooked Onion Corn * Daikon radish Endive lettuce Lotus root Mushrooms* Potato+ Romaine Snow Pea# Soybean* Sprouts Spinach* Swiss chard Tomato* FRUITS: APPLE * Avocado Black currant Cherries# Fig LEMON Oranges* Pear Prunes Strawberries* Tangerine BUCKWHEAT GRAINS Amaranth Barley * Buckwheat MILLET Wheat Wild rice# SEEDS Lima beans Mung bean Soybean MEAT Duck egg + Duck * Goose+ Eggs+ Fresh water snail. Pork Rabbit+ SPICES Cilantro leaf Marjoram MINT Peppermint* Tamarind MISC Cheese+ GREEN TEA Milk# Miso soup Oolong Tea PEPPERMINT* Sesame oil Yogurt	WARM VEGETABLES Bell pepper Chive Cooked Tomato* FENNEL Green bean Green Pepper+ KALE Kohlrabi Leek+ Mustard green Onion+ Oyster mushroom * Parsley Parsnip PUMPKIN Scallions Squash Sweet potato Watercress FRUITS Blackberry COCONUT Dates# Grapes * Hawthorn fruit Kumquat Litchi LONGAN Nectarines Pomegranates Quince Raspberry GRAINS Oats Quinoa Safflower Sweet/glutinous rice# SEEDS Black bean Chestnut Lotus seed Pine nut Walnut+ Peanut+ MEAT Anchovy Beef+ Butter+ Capers Chicken+ Eel * Fresh water fish * Ham+ Lobster Mussels * Pig tripe Sheep+ & goat Sheep's milk Shrimp Turkey+ Venison SPICES Anise Basil Bay leaf Caraway Carob Clove Coriander (also known as Chinese parsley or Pak Chee, in Thai.) Cumin Dill seed Fennel Fenugreek Fresh ginger Jasmine Nutmeg Oregano Rosemary Sage Spearmint Thyme SWEETENERS Amasake Brown sugar+ Malt sugar Molasses Sorghum MISC Black tea Coffee+ Goats milk Plum vinegar Rice vinegar Wine+ Vinegar	HOT VEGETABLES GARLIC+ Green onion Raw onions Red pepper MEAT Deep-fried or grilled meat. Grass fish. * Smoked Fish + SPICES Black pepper+ Cayenne pepper+ Chili pepper+ Horseradish/wasabi Mustard MISC Chocolate+ Cocoa+

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Now for a more in depth look at the energetic and medicinal properties of food in TCM:

Nightshades= Blue (Inflammatory, can cause heat and allergies)

Do not feed to dogs = orange

Hormone or Inflammation adjuster = Green

Lectin Binder/ Low Lectin = Purple

FOOD WITH EXTRA MEDICINAL PROPERTIES – ALL CAPS

Yin Foods: *

(Manifestation, magnetism, down, IN, COLD, WET, dark, earth, metal, female, passive and resting, dull)

Yang Foods: +

(Potential, electricity, UP, OUT, HOT, DRY, light, sun, wood, fire, male, activity)

Neutral Foods: #