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What are the triggering foods, and how are they classified?
Triggering foods are abbreviated as ‘Fa Shi’, and many people cannot eat triggering foods. Triggering foods are prone to cause allergies, and patients with illnesses should also avoid them. There are many types of triggering foods, and it is necessary to understand these basic categories in diet. Just like some seafood products are basically triggering foods, and it is necessary to pay attention to avoid them.
1. Edible fungi category. Mainly including mushrooms and shiitake. Overeating these foods can easily cause wind and raise Yang, triggering chronic diseases such as liver Yang headache and liver wind dizziness. In addition, they are also prone to trigger or worsen skin boils, sores, and abscesses.
2. Seafood category. Mainly including hairtail, yellow croaker, pomfret, clam meat, shrimp, crabs, and other aquatic products. Most of these foods are salty, cold, and fishy. For people with allergic constitutions, they are prone to trigger allergic diseases such as asthma and urticaria. At the same time, they are also prone to trigger skin diseases such as boils, sores, and abscesses.
3. Vegetable category. Mainly including bamboo shoots, rapeseed, pumpkins, and spinach. These foods are prone to trigger skin boils, sores, and abscesses.
4. Fruit category. Mainly including peaches, apricots, ginkgo, peanuts, mangoes, bayberries, cherries, lychees, and melons. It was pointed out by predecessors that eating too many peaches can cause heat, boils, sores, carbuncles, boils, and other problems. Eating too many apricots can cause boils and injuries to the tendons and bones.
5. Poultry and livestock. Mainly including roosters, chicken heads, pork heads, goose meat, chicken wings, chicken feet, donkey meat, antelope meat, beef, mutton, dog meat, goose eggs, and duck eggs. These foods are active and have an ascending nature, which can easily trigger wind and raise Yang, causing chronic diseases such as liver Yang headache and liver wind dizziness. In addition, they are also prone to trigger or worsen skin boils, sores, and abscesses. It is not advisable to eat too many eggs, generally not more than 2 a day, especially for patients with hepatitis, allergies, hyperlipidemia, fever, kidney disease, and diarrhea. The reason is that eggs contain a large amount of protein, but they are heterologous proteins, and a significant number of people experience pathological reactions after consuming them.
6. In addition, other triggering foods include vegetable oil, lees, rice wine, white wine, broad beans, soybeans, tofu, fermented bean curd, silkworm pupae, scallions, garlic, and chives. Sometimes, meaty and strong-smelling foods are also considered triggering foods.
