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According to chinese medicine the symptoms that you are experiencing, according to my amateur investigations, would be natural eating all raw. I have found that the same thing happens to me if on raw long enough but can be countered by a couple of things. Firstly, fruit and vegetables are considered very yin and cooling and foods eaten cold are also considered cooling. I take my food out of the refrigerator and let it warm up for about an hour before eating it and that helps a great deal. Cold fruit seems to be the worst culprite for me since it is the most yin food eaten and if it is chilled then it is off the chart yin. Another thing that I do is drink ginger tea. It is very warming, is the best digestive herb I've ever found and it definitely heats up the digestive fire. Cayenne pepper is another great herb to help bring digestive fire and circulation to the digestive tract. I love to put it on avocado. You can take it in a pill form called "cool cayenne" if it's too hot for you. Another thing that you can do is eat some warm foods. Soups slightly warmed and food right out of the dehydrator or food placed in the sun or fruit with hot water run over it. That helps me a lot. The two most important things are not to eat cold food and to get some ginger tea. My favorite ginger tea is by the yogi tea company and is called ginger tea but has under it "digestive aid".
Hope that helps!
Greenbunny
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