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Old 20th, March 2006, 11:14 PM
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Default Re: warm vs cold Foods!

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Originally Posted by navid_o
is there any relation between Arginine (as warm foods) and lysine(as cold food)?
i mean i heard from my grandmother if i got herpes labialis eat more yogurt!
and avoid nuts,...
which foods in our folk names as Warm & which cold foods?
can we linke this old categorising to these Amino Acids which work opposite?
any opinoin?
I think Navid's question's about the humours governing the body. Let me explain more: the ancient physician s and pharmacists –the Greek and the Iranian in particular- believed that there are four humeral systems governing the health, their names were: black bile, blood, yellow bile, and phlegm. They also believed the nature of the foods is different: some are cold, the others are warm.
The four elements making the environment: earth, air, fire, and water. They were linked to the human's health in accordance to the humeral system.
I read in a book that they are like the cholinergic and adrenergic systems. The food has great effects on make them imbalanced by their nature: as I mentioned some food has cold nature while the others have warm nature, so they can cause the humeral systems to react.
Did I explain it in a proper way? I am trying to find more information to put in this topic. So be patient!

PS. form Oxford Dictionary:
humour (US humor) (also cardinal humour): historical each of four fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), formerly held to determine a person’s physical and mental qualities.
– ORIGIN ME (orig. in the sense ‘bodily fluid’, surviving in aqueous humour and vitreous humour): via OFr. from L. humor ‘moisture’, from humere.
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