What is the term (if any) for heaty and cooling foods in Japanese?


Partially quoted from ["Heaty and Cooling Foods"](http://www.benefits-of-
honey.com/heaty.html):

> When a Chinese uses the terms 'heaty' or 'heatiness' to describe the kinds
> of foods he/she would like to have or avoid, most Westerners would probably
> have no idea what those concepts are or find them strange. In Traditional
> Chinese Medicine (TCM), the notion of heaty (yang)(as opposed to cooling or
> yin) is related to the balancing of ‘yin' and ‘yang'. To most people,
> especially the Chinese, in Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong,
> Malaysia and Singaporeans, such concepts are very much part of the
> indigenous culture and are commonly used as a form of expressing certain set
> of symptoms or sensations often associated with emotional or physical
> reactions ...

For example, as eating much もち can trigger 鼻血 so we can assign もち米 based foods
heaty foods.

Is there such term in Japanese? How about 消化が悪い食べ物? Is it relevant?




The linked article says 'heaty' is _yang_ = 陽 and 'cooling' is _yin_ = 陰. That
led me to some Japanese articles discussing **陰 (or 陰性【いんせい】)** and **陽 (or
陽性【ようせい】)** of foods.

  * [食べ物の陰陽](http://roop119.com/2.html)
  * [人間の陰陽による食物の選び方](http://www.m-biotics.com/macrobiotic-q/riron/2-2-2ningenshokumotu.html)

Apparently these articles are introducing the same thing as the linked
article, but Japanese people are generally not familiar with such a concept.
(And I also feel that those Japanese sites I found are are very "pseudo-
scientific". Read at your own risk.)

消化が悪い食べ物 (poorly-digested food) is probably irrelevant.




The linked article says 'heaty' is _yang_ = 陽 and 'cooling' is _yin_ = 陰. That
led me to some Japanese articles discussing **陰 (or 陰性【いんせい】)** and **陽 (or
陽性【ようせい】)** of foods.

  * [食べ物の陰陽](http://roop119.com/2.html)
  * [人間の陰陽による食物の選び方](http://www.m-biotics.com/macrobiotic-q/riron/2-2-2ningenshokumotu.html)

Apparently these articles are introducing the same thing as the linked
article, but Japanese people are generally not familiar with such a concept.
(And I also feel that those Japanese sites I found are are very "pseudo-
scientific". Read at your own risk.)

消化が悪い食べ物 (poorly-digested food) is probably irrelevant.

