Are milk and soybean milk cold?

1 According to the nutritional components of milk and the dialectical eating viewpoint of TCM nutrition, milk, like eggs, is between cold and warm.

2 Soybean milk is cool, as recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Soybean milk is beneficial to underwater qi, can control wind and heat, and relieve all poisons". The secret record of prolonging life also records that soybean milk "grows skin, benefits qi and color, fills bone marrow, adds strength and supplements deficiency." According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, soybean milk is flat and sweet, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. "A bowl of hot soybean milk in autumn and winter can drive away the cold and warm the stomach and keep healthy." Drinking soybean milk often is good for your health.