heaty 熱氣

heaty
繁：熱氣
简：热气

中醫講究陰陽平衡，陽就是身體內的能量，陰就是營養身體的部份，包括血、津液（即各臟腑組織內的體液）、淚腺的分泌。陰陽一定要平衡，當陰的部份減少，陽的那邊增加，就會出現虛火、燥的情況。當食了一些熱氣食物，例如炸雞，就會令身體偏向燥熱，陽的比例增加了，熱氣就產生。

【科健籽】破解熱氣　惟有戒口（2015年6月26日）。蘋果日報，取自 https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/special/daily/article/20150626/19197887

Such notions are widely held in most Chinese communities, including that in Hong Kong, where mothers often scold child­ren for eating fried food, “Don’t eat that: it’s yiht hei!” Because if you consume too much food that is yiht hei (“heaty, causing internal body heat”) you are liable to develop symptoms such as a sore throat, cough, mouth ulcers, acne, sore eyes and tiredness.

How ‘heaty’ and ‘cooling’ made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. (2017, February 2). South China Morning Post. Retrieved from http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2067467/how-heaty-and-cooling-made-it-oxford-english-dictionary