TCM Yin Yang Heaty and Cool Food

Category: Wisdom Kingdom | August 26, 2017 - Reading time: 6 minutes

Heaty and Cooling food in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medition) is important and will make or break your health! This is a quick list of which is heaty and cooling.

TCM Heaty Food

Heaty food will give use Yang energy when eaten. This kind of food cause us to feel… well, heaty! Having too much heaty food will create these problems:

Short temper
Rashes
Mouth ulcers
Feelings of irritability
Flushed face or pinkish cheeks
Dark yellow urine
Fever
Nose bleed
Constipation
Need more water
Sore throat
pimples and acne
Indigestion

Heaty foods, in most cases, can be identified using these traits:

hard, dry, spicy
grow under the sun
tastes sweet or pungent
has lots of sodium
have lots of fats
red or orange in color (not all)
very concentrated mass and nutritious (think beans and nuts)

TCM Cooling Food

On the other hand, cool or Yin food will create a cooling effect when consumed. They can counter the Yang food”s effects but too much will cause:

tired
weak
lazy
Need less water and always need to pee
restless

Normally, cool foods are:

salty, sour or bitter
lean
soft and wet
grow in little sunshine
contains lots of potassium
blue or green or light colored (not all)
very light (think orange: full of water/juices)

Here is a whole table of Yin Yang Food…

Heaty Yang Food	Neutral Food	Cool Yin Food
apricots apricot seed black currant blackberries brown sugar cherry chestnut chicken chive cinnamon bark cinnamon twig clove coconut coffee coriander date dillseed durian eel garlic ginger grape grapefruit peel green onion guava ham jackfruit leaf mustard leek longan mandarin orange mangoes mutton nutmeg peach pear Pepper raspberry red and green pepper rosemary shallots shrimp soybean oil spearmint spring onion sweet basil tobacco vinegar walnut	abalone apple apricot beef beetroot black fungus brown rice brussels sprouts carp carrot celery chicken egg yolk corn cuttlefish dates duck fig Honey kidney bean lotus fruit and seed milk olive oyster papaya plum pork potato pumpkin radish leaf raisins raspberries red bean rosemary sage snow peas sunflower seed sweet potato sweet potato sweet rice taro thyme white fungus yellow soybean	Bamboo shoot banana barley bean curd bitter gourd broccoli cauliflower chicken egg white clam corn crab cucumber grapefruit lettuce lotus root marjoram marjoram oyster peppermint persimmon pineapple radish salt seaweed star fruit strawberry sugar cane tangerine tomatoes turmeric water chestnut watermelon yogurt zuccini

Important note: Also, the way a certain kind of food is prepared can change its nature. Frying, Baking or Toasting a Cool Food may change it to Neutral, Warm or Heaty.

This list will be updated from time to time when necessary, adding new food to the list and correcting errors.

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