Date sent: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 08:51:48 +0530
Mango
Dear list, According to information on nutrition, Mango is
considered as cool in property. We in India consider it a hot food.
So when one eats mangoes he or she gets prickly heat or boils.
What is correct? Is it cool or hot?
Kiran Phalke
Phil & Kiran,
I've heard the same thing from my teacher - that eating too much mango
will cause skin irritation. He puts it in the same category as strawberries and pinapple
(and some other stuff I don't remember right now),
I believe the Cantonese word for it is 'dok', which might be du,
or toxin, in Mandarin.
In one of Henry Lu's food books, he says mango is Cool, Sweet, Sour,
strengthens the Stomach, relieves vomiting, promotes urination. There
are some footnotes though, that excessive consumption of mango is
reported to have caused nephritis (I guess would make sense considering
the comment about 'du' above..), eating a mango after a full meal will
cause swelling of the stomach, and mango should not be eaten with
pungent foods (like garlic or green onion) as it will cause jandice &
skin itching. He then goes on to say that to test this centuries-old
belief, he ate 5 mangos with some green onion and had severe skin
itching within 5 hours (I thought that was pretty cool.. almost like
Zhong Ji (was it him?) who poisoned himself several times one day when
he was testing the actions of herbs on himself).
In Maoshing Ni's 'The Tao of Nutrition', he basically says mango is
neutral and generates fluids (implies that it is sweet), but no
footnotes about skin itching.
Not sure what the TCM action would be to cause the skin itching, but
like Kirin said, Indians consider the food hot... but the literature
says it's a cool or neutral fruit! I wonder if this is a situation
where there are different species being talked about (ie, the yellow or
green mangos).
Geoffrey Hudson
Nilton Benfatti [PA-L]
Kiran, Mango is cool and acid. Cool fruits clear Heat! Here in Brazil
we have the same skin problems when some people eat 4 or 5 mangos.
The efects of Mango depends on type of person that eats
it and quantity of Mangos.
Regards Nilton
pineapple
>>Miriam Lee used to tell people to eat a whole pineapple regularly if they had digestive trouble
Alon
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