Just like most things in Oriental traditions, the temperature of your food can fall under one of five classifications. These are hot, warm, neutral, cool, and cold. Achieving balance in the temperature of your food contributes to a healthy and harmonic lifestyle. However, determining what temperature any individual food counts as is not as simple as it may sound. Indeed, when we talk about the temperature of your food, we’re not talking about the actual heat of the food as yo

The summer-heat is one of oriental medicine’s external forces. It is a yang pathogenic factor, characterized by sweltering hot temperatures. When you subject yourself to such temperatures for an extended period of time, your body burns through qi and bodily fluids more quickly than usual, resulting in an imbalance. When affected by the influence of summer-heat, you may experience symptoms like dizziness, vertigo, thirst, dryness, constipation, or concentrated urine. When it c