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Z: Y3S1 - Nutrition - basics only > Week 2 > Flashcards

Week 2 Flashcards

0
Q

Examples of hot foods?

A

Ginger, cinnamon, lamb, chilli peppers

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Hot foods do what?

A

Increase yang, speed up Qi, activate, warm, disperse, move upward and outward, warm the bowels and viscera, eliminate external and internal cold, mobilize defensive Qi.

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Warm foods do what?

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Strengthen yang and Qi, warm the body, bowels and viscera, warm and strengthen the middle burner

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Examples of Warm foods?

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Fennel, Chicken, Beef, Oats

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Neutral foods do what?

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Build up Qi and Body Fluids, Stabalize and harmonize the body.

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Examples of Neutral Foods?

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Honey, Rice, Potatoes

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Cool foods do what?

A

Supplement body fluids (jin ye), and blood (xue), slow down Qi, clear heat.

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Examples of cool foods?

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Yoghurt, soy milk, wheat

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Cold foods do what?

A

create cold, cool internal heat and have a calming effect on the Shen.

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Examples of Cold foods?

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Watermelon, dandelion, orange

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are faster growing foods colder or hotter?

A

Colder

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Are high water content foods colder or warmer?

A

Colder

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Are dried foods colder or warmer?

A

Warmer

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Do chemicals in food make it (artificially) colder or warmer?

A

artificial heat reactions

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are warmer colours in foods warmer or colder

A

warmer

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Cooling cooking methods?

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blanching, steaming, salting, boiling in plentiful water

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Heating cooking methods?

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Grilling, frying, roasting, smoking, searing, baking, long simmering in liquid

17
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Organ of Sweet?

A

Spleen/St

18
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Organ of Pungent/Acrid?

A

Lung/ Large Intestine

19
Q

Organ of Salty?

A

Kidney

UB

20
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Organ of Sour?

A

Liver

GB

21
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Organ of Bitter?

A

Heart, Small Intestine

22
Q

Action of Sweet

A

Center

23
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Action of Pungent/Acrid

A

Up and Out

24
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Action of Salty

A

In and Down

25
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Action of Sour

A

In

26
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Action of Bitter

A

Down

Z: Y3S1 - Nutrition - basics only (3 decks)

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