Cooling Foods

 

Cooling foods have the effect of clearing heat and toxins, cooling and calming the blood and nourishing yin. These types of food are suitable for people who have heat constitutionally or systemically throughout the body and can present in any of the following symptoms: overall feeling of heat, perspiration, thirst, constipation, anxiety, red eyes, red face, headaches, vivid dreams, ulcers in the mouth or tongue, cold sores around the mouth, red tongue with a thick yellow coating on the tongue, rapid pulse, heart burn and dark or yellow urine.

 

GENERAL GUIDELINES:

  1. ·      Avoid greasy, spicy and excessively hot foods
  2. ·      Nourish the body fluids, drink more than half the body weight in ounces of water each day
  3. ·      Avoid caffeine, tobacco and alcohal

·       Grains:  barley, millet

·       Vegetables:  alfalfa sprout, artichoke, asparagus, kelp, mung bean sprout, pea, potato,seaweed,string bean, sweet potato, tomato, water chestnut, yam, zucchini

·       Fruit:  apple, apricot, avocado, banana, lemon, lime, mango, mulberry, pear, persimmon, pineapple, pomegranate, watermelon

·       Beans: adzuki, black beans, black soya, kidney, lima, mung

·       Bean Products:  tofu

·       Nuts and seeds: coconut milk, sesame seed, black sesame seed, walnut

·       Fish:  fish in general but especially clam, fresh water clam, crab, cuttlefish, oyster, octopus, sardine

·       Meat:  beef, duck, goose, pork, pork kidney, rabbit

·       Dairy:  cheese, chicken egg, cow’s milk, duck egg

·       Herbs and spices:  marjoram, nettle

·       Oils and condiments:  coconut oil, honey, malt,

Common supplements:  American ginseng, royal jelly