1, cold hands and feet in winter
1. Eat more iron-rich food
If you think, cold, eat more spicy things, or even drink a little wine can be warmed up, it is wrong. Li Guiming said that this can only serve as a temporary warming effect. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the root cause of cold hands and feet in winter is the lack of yang in the human body, but if you want to be able to cold in winter, then we must pay attention to the conditioning, for example, cold hands and feet in winter, cold, back pain, low sexual function, etc. is mostly a yang deficiency, pay attention to make up for the yang, you can eat with the yang to help the fire, warm the kidneys to help the yang of food such as mutton, dog meat, shrimp, venison, or walnuts, chives, eel, etc., which are for the Improve the cold ability to help a lot.
In addition to this, the diet is rich in iron food. Due to the lack of iron in the body, a variety of nutrients can not be fully oxidized to produce heat, is an important reason for the fear of cold, so pay attention to supplement iron-rich foods, such as lean meat, fish, animal liver, poultry, egg yolk, beans, celery, spinach, shiitake mushrooms, black fungus and so on. Meanwhile, you should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C to promote the body's absorption of iron and improve the body's ability to resist cold.
2. Rub Taixi Point
Regularly rubbing Taixi Point is not only good for chronic kidney disease, but also very effective in treating cold hands and feet of female friends. Every day before going to bed to rub and stimulate this point, adhere to about 1 week, you can have a good harvest.
Taixi point is located on the inner side of the foot, behind the inner ankle, in the depression between the tip of the inner ankle and the Achilles tendon. Use the thumb of the opposite hand to press and knead, you can also use a massage stick or smooth wooden stick to press and knead, pay attention to the power of soft, to feel the degree of soreness, not too much power to avoid injury to the skin.
In addition to improving cold hands and feet, Taixi point also has the function of "nourishing the kidney yin, tonifying the kidney qi, strengthening the kidney yang, the uterus".
3. More exercise to improve blood circulation
Nanning City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine National Medical Hall of the treatment of future illnesses, Li Hongbo, director of the Department of Physicians that the body is thin, cold body of the girls; sitting in the office for a long time, the lack of exercise in the workplace staff are prone to cold hands and feet.
Some types of people with poor peripheral blood circulation, easy to make the mechanism of thermoregulation disorders, and cold hands and feet is precisely the autonomic function of the regulation is not smooth, the blood vessels caused by thinning. And toes, knees, shoulders and fingers and other parts, belonging to the movement of more joint area, because of the fat, blood vessels are relatively less, the heat is easy to dissipate, so people will feel particularly cold.
So you might want to step up your exercise, running and playing ball can all improve poor circulation. For many elderly people, large intensity exercise may not be suitable, it is recommended that the elderly can choose more square dance, brisk walking and other exercise programs.
4. Pay attention to moisture and keep warm
To keep your feet cold, it is very important to keep warm. So everyone back home do not rush to take off the clothes on the body. At home when you change slippers, Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated Ruikang Hospital treatment center director Huang Bin suggested that we wear some of the full enclosure of the cotton slippers, if you only wear slippers with cotton in front, the heel is exposed to the outside, the whole foot will still feel cold. Once the feet are warm, the whole person will warm up.
In addition to warmth, there is attention to moisture. The cold in the south is different from the north, belonging to the wet cold, moisture is heavier. Sometimes the feet sweat, which will lead to wet shoes, the home should have two pairs of slippers more, change to wear, feet must remain dry. Similarly, wearing only one pair of shoes a day, or often wear a pair of shoes, it is easy to cause wet shoes, wet shoes, it is difficult to warm up the feet.
Ideally, one pair of shoes for going out, one pair of shoes for the flat, and another pair of shoes for going home. In addition, shoes and socks should not be worn too tight, socks should not be too thick and too tight, not only affect the blood circulation, but also easy to lead to foot sweating, from the warm indoors into the cold outdoors, the moisture in the shoes after the cold, the feet will feel even colder, and relatively loose socks can be breathable.
5. Bubble hot water feet
"In addition to the daily life of the warm, cold feet more people can also be through the foot bath to warm feet," Huang Bin introduced, the simplest is to use hot water to soak the feet, to promote blood flow, accelerate blood circulation, and drive away the body's cold. If you have the conditions, you can add cinnamon sticks, ginger and mugwort leaves in the water are good.
Guizhouzhi in traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the pungent and warm antidote medicine, has the effect of warming the menstruation and dispersing cold, put 15-30 grams of guizhouzhi when soaking the feet can warm the menstruation and improve blood circulation, so as to play a role in improving the symptoms of cold hands and feet.
Modern medicine believes that ginger can stimulate capillaries, improve local blood circulation and metabolism, fear of cold, easy to cold hands and feet, you can also use ginger (15-30 grams) foot bath.
Women are especially recommended to soak their feet in moxa leaves, which can regulate yin and yang and unclog the meridians.
The Chinese medicine also believes that exercise can make yang qi born, promote blood pressure circulation. So when you get up early in the morning and do exercise properly, you will be energized throughout the day and will not be prone to chills.
2, cold hands and feet in winter
1, peripheral circulation is not good
Cold hands and feet in winter is a normal physiological phenomenon, because the lower temperature will make the blood vessel contraction, blood reflux ability to weaken, making the hands and feet, especially fingertips, feet and other parts of the blood circulation is not good, the peripheral nerves of the circulation caused by the poor The first is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the situation.
Normally, wearing more clothes, eating warm food, and moving more can promote the return of blood flow and relieve the problem of cold hands and feet. But for people with weak vascular reflux and poor peripheral circulation, it is more difficult to warm up the limbs in this way.
2, Yang deficiency body
Most people with cold hands and feet are due to Yang deficiency body. If your hands and feet still feel chilly after adding warm clothes, you should pay attention to whether you have what Chinese medicine calls a 'yangxu' body. "Yang deficiency," also known as deficiency cold, as the name suggests, refers to the body's lack of yang energy, mostly spleen and kidney yang deficiency.
Yang is the essence of life, and warming the body is one of its important functions. If yang qi is insufficient, can not be transported to the hands and feet and other limbs of the trunk of the end parts, there will be cold, cold hands and feet and other phenomena. Therefore, an important way to relieve cold hands and feet is to regulate the body, make up the "yang qi".
3, qi and blood deficiency, spleen yang not vibrant, liver qi depression
Besides the yang deficiency, depending on the symptoms, Chinese medicine that cold hands and feet may also be due to a number of deficiency, real disease.
Experts say that on the deficiency side, qi and blood deficiency, spleen yang deficiency and spleen and kidney yang deficiency can trigger cold hands and feet, and can occur regardless of seasonal changes and mood. On the real side, it is possible to feel the cold evil cause qi and blood stagnation and liver qi stagnation. The former refers to cold extremities when cold, the color of the blue and purple, serious or even feel pain. The latter refers to the usual emotional instability, depression when the hands and feet do not warm, mood calming symptoms can disappear.
4, menstruation and childbirth caused by hormonal changes
In the crowd of people with cold hands and feet, women account for the vast majority. This is the result of hormonal changes that cause subcutaneous vasoconstriction and reduced blood flow by affecting the nervous system, which triggers the chills.
5, disease factors
Mental stress is too much, the heart is overly sensitive, usually excessive worry, often distracted people are also high incidence of cold hands and feet.
6, wearing less
Of course, cold hands and feet are not all caused by physical, disease. Many women who love beauty even in the cold winter, still short skirts, shorts do not leave the body, wearing less, naturally feel cold. Therefore, the women who wear less cold hands and feet, first of all, but also to reflect on whether it is too little to wear!