These foods are also good in summer because of their hot energy. Among these are black pepper, cinnamon bark, ginger, green and red pepper and soybean oil. On the other hand, foods which move inward are good in winter, since they are cold energetically and tend to be bitter or salty. Bitter gourd, clams, crab, hops, kelp, lettuce and seaweed are inward moving foods. Exterior foods tend to be yang while interior foods tend to be yin in nature.
Foods also have energies capable of generating the sensations in the body upon consumption.
The five energies of foods are cold, hot, warm, cool and neutral. These energies act upon the body in different ways and can be used to treat conditions which are caused by imbalances in the bodies energy. Symptoms caused by cold conditions can be alleviated by consumption of warm or hot foods, while hot conditions can be helped by cool or cold foods. Mushroom Pork Lamb . Sugar cane Spinach Rice Ginseng .