The following tips are applicable to you if you have been diagnosed with a condition called heat in Chinese medicine. Recommended foods: Vegetables: lettuce, eggplant, cucumber, celery, cucumber, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, water chestnuts, soy sprouts, leeks, beet, spinach. Carbohydrates: millet, barley, corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, wheat bran and oats Preferred type of bread: rye Fruits: watermelon, pear, banana, melon, mandarin, peach, bitters-lemon, grapes, per