Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.
Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy; 1), London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 187: