I hope you understand that my advices do not constitute any medical opinion; they are only common senses in healthy living. I do hope my effort can help people with living a happier life.
In my previous response, when I said cold f & b, I meant temperature cold. The rich varieties of fruit and veggie in Brazil should be quite difficult for my to categorize for you over the internet which is cold in TCM nature and which is not. It is difficult even for most Chinese who grew up with TCM concept around them and yet who have paid little attention to it.
If just by following very simple guidelines there could be some improvement in your situation, I’d be happy for you. That’s why I mentioned things that are cold in temperature that you should avoid. Not only refrigerator cold, but room temperature cold veggie, that means they should be cooked. As for fruits, yes, it is a good idea that they are consumed cooked as well, but it is quite difficult in practice that our daily fruit portions be cooked all the time. So eat them in smaller portions over many times in the day. Or simply eating them not so fast. That is for your systems to deal with them easier.
Raw things in all your diet should not be a good idea for you. I am no expert in weight loss, but it is common sense that a person who has difficulties in water metabolism should avoid raw things because they can cause more “humid evils” (TCM term).
Your sample about carrot vs tomato, if both are uncooked, the tomato is actually a bit warmer than the carrot. Carrot is quite cooling in TCM term. Some other roots are cold, some others are warm, hot, and neutral. The saying that roots are warmer is a bit irresponsible, or ignorant, wherever you have heard it from.
I am sure there is a ton of recipes for cooking veggies in Brazil, and you should not avoid meat either, unless you are a vegetarian. Do try to cook your veggie with a bit of ginger in it, better yet ginger with the skin. It not only helps neutralize the coldness in some veggies, but also to dissipate “humid evils”. There are a lot of herbs that do that, but ginger is a lot more common place and practicable in cooking.
I love ice cream and if you like it too, you do not have to avoid it: eat moderately and add ginger to it! If this is too much, consider candied ginger ;-), I also have some great ginger-milk recipes, which I’ll share later in the site for the benefits of more people.
In terms of tea choices, Rou Gui is suitable for you as are the others, except for Monkey Picked, if it is the green style. It is basically tieguanyin or related imitations.
Baked and roasted are two different ways in processing tea. YOu can read about them in related Tea Guardian chapters.
Hope this helps. Cheers,
