Is eating raw food healthy? It is quite healthy, but is it completely healthy? Is the definition of a healthy diet eating only raw food?

Traditional Chinese medicine has an interesting point of view on food. Raw food is considered as "cold food" and that is important because...

As always you shouldn’t be that strict. Raw food has a lot of benefits but there’s that other side of the coin that hasn’t been discussed that much.

Sometimes eating raw food is not just what you need.
In ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine or TCM temperature of the food has a key role in the whole story about the benefits a diet brings you.

Raw foods, eggs, tofu, whole wheat, green tea… they all have a cooling effect on the body and it doesn’t matter whether you consume them hot or cold.
On the other hand, dates, chicken, squash, cinnamon, ginger… These have the opposite, warming effect on your body.

Imagine your stomach as a pot of soup on a stove. In TCM the spleen is the fire underneath the pot. If you put cold ingredients in the pot you’ll need much more energy and time to heat it up and to cook the soup. In terms of your body, this means excess heat coming around.

This means that consuming a total raw food is basically consuming just the cooling food. That way huge amounts of energy get lost meanwhile. This can lead to something called spleen qi deficiency or lack of vital force energy in spleen and excess dampness – this one is the moment when the heat under the pot is not enough and the soup is not completely cooked as it should be.

So if you experience heavy feeling in head, brain fog, sweets cravings, nausea, sweating with no exertion, weakness of any kind you might deal with qi deficiency.

You might need to reconsider your diet plan.