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Week 2: Energetics of Food Flashcards

1
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What is the single most important category in oriental medicine in regard to food?

A

The temperature of a food

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What are the qualities of HOT food in TCM?

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  • Speed up qi
  • Increase yang
  • Activate, warm, disperse
  • Move upward and outward
  • Eliminate external and internal cold
  • (Zang Fu) Warm the bowels and viscera
  • Enhance defense qi
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What are examples of hot foods?

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Ginger, cinnamon, lamb, chilli

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What happens if you have an excess of HOT foods?

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Excess creates heat (yang repletion), injures yin and dries out BF

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What is the action of WARM food?

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  • Strengthen yang and qi
  • Warm the body, bowels and viscera
  • Warm and strengthen middle jiao
  • Treatment of cold symptoms
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What are some examples of warm foods?

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Fennel, chicken, beef, oats

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What happens with excess warm?

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Yang repletion

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What is the action of NEUTRAL foods?

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  • Build up qi and BF
  • Stabilize and harmonize the body
  • Treatment of qi vacuity
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What are examples of neutral foods?

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Honey, rice, potatoes

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What is the action of COOL foods?

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  • Supplement body fluids (jin ye) and blood (due)
  • Slow down qi
  • Clear heat
  • Treatment of heat symptoms
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What are some examples of cool food?

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Yogurt, soy milk, wheat

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What are the actions of COLD foods?

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  • Create cold
  • Cool internal heat
  • Calm shen
  • Treatment of heat symptoms
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What are examples of cold food?

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Watermelon, dandelion, orange

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What happens with excess cold?

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Damages qi and yang, thoroughly cools down the body.

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15
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Plants that take longer to grow (eg. root vegetables, ginger) tend to be _______ than fast growing foods (e.g. lettuce, zucchini, tomatoes)

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warmer

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Foods that contain high water content tend to be more ______ e.g.. melon, cucumber, squash

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cooling

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17
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Dried foods tend to be more _______ than their fresh counterparts

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warming

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Some chemicals added to foods may produce ____ _______ as may artificially ripened foods

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heat reactions

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Foods with blue, green or purple colours are usually more _____ than red, orange or yellow

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cooling

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What are cooling cooking methods?

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Blanching
Steaming
Boiling in plentiful water
Salting (pickling in brine)

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What are warming cooking methods?

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Grilling
Frying
Roasting
Smoking
Searing
Baking
Long simmering in liquid
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Longer and slower methods will produce more _______ effects than quicker methods

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warming

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23
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Does microwaving add any heat to food?

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No, but it does alter the molecular structure and cause abnormal changes in human immune systems.

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24
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What is Wu Wei?

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Five flavours

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What is the function of the sweet flavour?

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  • Harmonizes all other flavours and forms the centre of the diet
  • Mildly stimulates circulation of qi and blood
  • Treats deficiency (tonifying and strengthening)
  • Moistens and benefits dryness
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26
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What occurs with excess sweet?

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  • Leads to formation of phlegm and heat.

- Refined sugar will weaken the blood and excess sweet should be avoided with damp conditions.

27
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What are examples of the sweet flavour?

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Pumpkin, rice, beef (most meat), legumes, nuts, dairy and starchy vegetables.

28
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Talk about the generating cycle with excess sweet

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  • Affects lung, cough
  • Adds flesh
  • Creates flesh
  • Weakens connective tissue
29
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Talk about the Controlling cycle for sweet (earth).

A 
Earth overacts on Water
Weakens kidney (bone and teeth disorders)
30
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What are functions of the pungent flavour?

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  • Stimulate digestion
  • Hot pungents open pores through perspiration
  • EPF’s are expelled
  • Loosen emotional stagnation in chest
  • Breaks up phlegm
  • Circulation of qi and blood
  • Disperses stagnation
31
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Excess pungent?

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  • Dry skin and constipation, skin linked to lung and LI

- Exhaust qi and blood

32
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Talk about generating cycle for metal

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Lung to kidney, metal to water

  • Overconsumption will affect kidney yin which will overheat
  • Exaggerated sexual desire and compulsions
33
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Controlling cycle for metal?

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  • Damage LV/GB

- LV yang rising and irritability

34
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Insulting phase for metal

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  • Heart and fire network affected, sleep disorders, hyperactivity and restlessness
  • Ask person what time they finish eating and what they eat before bed
35
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Functions of salty flavour?

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  • Moisture balance
  • Stimulate digestion
  • Moisten, soften, detoxify
  • Inward and downward,
  • Centre and root movement
36
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Excess salty?

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  • Hardens muscles and damages bone
  • Damages fluids and blood leading to hypertension
  • Inhibits heart and spirit
  • Decreased mental abilities and rigid thinking
37
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Is fish salty or sweet?

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Both but more sweet

38
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Functions of sour flavour?

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  • Contraction and absorption
  • Astringent and gathering effect
  • Leaking and sagging conditions (sweating, diarrhea, hemorrhage)
  • Counteracts fatty foods to prevent stagnation
  • Smooth flow of qi and blood
39
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Excess sour?

A

Over-contraction and over-retention of moisture

40
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For a heated up liver and gallbladder what would you recommend?

A

Soothe with sour cooling foods like raspberry and lemon

41
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Generating cycle for wood (sour)

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From LV to HT

  • Good for distracted, unfocused minds
  • Contraindicated with acute external weather conditions as cold will move inward
42
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Controlling cycle for wood

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  • Cannot really have too much sour in terms of LV and SP
  • May cause over contraction but also blood activators
  • Mix vinegar and honey to neutralize
43
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Functions of bitter flavour?

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  • Drains and dries, moves downward
  • Improve appetite, stimulate digestion
  • Draw out dampness and heat
  • Reduce excess conditions
  • Acts mostly on heart but also benefits lung
44
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Excess bitter? Contraindications?

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  • Deplete qi and moisture

- Contraindicated with cold or deficient conditions

45
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Generating cycle for fire (bitter)

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  • Appropriate amount will supplement spleen, pancreas, stomach
  • Spleen qi tonic
  • Preferably during moist, cool weather
46
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Controlling cycle for fire (bitter)

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  • Too much will dehydrate and damage fluids
  • Poor circulation and blood deficiency
  • Dry skin and blood
47
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Insulting cycle for bitter

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Bitter spreads to bones, robbing body of calcium

48
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Sourness enters \_\_\_\_\_
Bitterness enters \_\_\_\_\_\_
Sweetness enters \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Acridity enters \_\_\_
Saltiness enters \_\_\_\_\_
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sinews
blood
flesh
qi
bones
49
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What is the doctrine of signatures?

A

Signatures may refer to colour, texture, form or the environment that the plant may grow in. TCM also recognizes flavour.

50
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Daikon

A
  • pungent
  • moisten lung
  • cut mucous
  • help prevent viral infection
51
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Willow

A
  • Aspirin/ASA
  • Cold/damp environment
  • Worsens arthritic pain
52
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Watercress

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  • Thrives in watery environment
  • Diuretic
  • Signature/form
53
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Walnut

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  • resembles a brain

- omega 3 fatty acids

54
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Cauliflower

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  • white, lung
  • branched,like lungs
  • treats lung yin deficiency
  • treats mucoid conditions in LI
  • brassica genus, cruciferous to treat colon, prostate, breast cancer
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Chickpeas

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  • Contains more iron than any other legume

- Signature is form as it looks like a heart

56
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Eggplant

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  • purple, black
  • eggs, ovaries, gynecology
  • essence kidneys
  • eat sparingly by pregnant women
  • signature looks like a uterus, treats congealed blood
57
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Kale

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  • green good for LV/GB
  • Liver qi
  • high source of chlorophyll, rejuvenates, quells inflammation, detoxifies, renews
58
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Kidney beans

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  • signature is form and colour
  • dark, black
  • looks like kidney
  • water energy
  • nourish yin fluids, used in treating edema and swelling
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Beet

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  • red
  • looks like a heart
  • strengthen heart
  • sedate the spirit
  • improve circulation
  • purify the blood
60
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Avocado

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  • uterus
  • builds blood
  • nourishes yin
  • rich in copper, aids in RBC formation
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Celery

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  • form, looks like a bone
  • high in silicon
  • renew joints, bones, arteries, connective tissues
62
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Pineapple

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  • yellow, sweet
  • habitat, grow in tropical climates
  • help to treat summer heat, sunstroke
  • increases digestion and destroys worms
63
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Apple

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  • cut it in half it looks like a star

- universal symbol for spirit, sustenance, life, secret knowledge, hidden mysteries

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