Symptoms of cold and hot constitution

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many types of human constitutions, such as cold, hot, deficiency or excess. Therefore, you should understand what kind of constitution you have, and then strengthen good conditioning to improve some bad constitutions. You should be targeted in diet. For example, a hot and irritable constitution includes both cold resistance and warm and hot constitution. You should pay attention to diet and exercise in your daily life.

Symptoms of cold and hot constitution

People's physiques can be divided into cold, hot, weak and strong. First, you need to understand your own physique, and then take foods of corresponding properties to maintain your body. 1. Cold constitution People with "cold constitution" have low heat production energy, so their hands and feet are colder, their face is paler than ordinary people, they sweat easily, their stools are loose, their urine is clear, their skin color is pale, their mouth has no taste, they like to drink hot drinks, and they are rarely thirsty. Even in the hot summer, they will feel uncomfortable when entering an air-conditioned room, and they need to drink a cup of hot tea or put on a coat to feel comfortable. People with this constitution should choose warming foods. People with cold constitution are more afraid of cold and prone to anemia. Eating cold food will make their cold symptoms worse. As the coldness of the limbs increases, poor blood circulation in the extremities will occur, causing numbness in the hands and feet even in the hottest days. The pain will be more severe in winter due to the cold environment.

Tips for distinguishing hot and cold foods:

Generally speaking, you can look at the food’s color, taste, growing environment, geographical location, and growing season. Judging from the color, green plants are close to the ground and absorb moisture from the ground, so they are cold in nature, such as mung beans and green vegetables. Plants with reddish colors, such as chili peppers, peppers, dates, pomegranates, etc., grow close to the ground, but their fruits are exposed to sunlight for a long time, so they are hot in nature. In terms of taste, sweet and spicy foods, such as garlic, persimmon, pomegranate, etc., are hot in nature because they are exposed to sunlight for more time. Foods that taste bitter or sour are mostly cold, such as bitter melon, bitter herbs, taro, plums, papaya, etc. From the perspective of the growing environment, aquatic plants tend to prefer cold weather, such as lotus root, kelp, and seaweed. Some foods that grow on land, such as peanuts, potatoes, yams, ginger, etc., are buried in the soil for a long time, the plants are drought-resistant, and contain less water, so they are hot in nature. From the perspective of their growing geographical location, foods that are in the shade and face north absorb more moisture and rarely see sunlight, and therefore tend to be cold in nature, such as mushrooms and fungus. Some foods that grow high in the sky or in the southeast, such as sunflowers and chestnuts, are hot in nature because they receive more light and heat.