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What should I do if my hands and feet are cold and afraid of cold?

What should I do if my hands and feet are cold and afraid of cold?

Thank you for inviting me. I'm Barefoot Doctor Chung Kuo Chinese Medicine.

Your condition, I know, before I talk about this condition, I would like you to understand the functions of Yang Qi, Spleen, Kidneys, as stated in Chinese Medicine, which will help you to understand the condition.

According to Chinese medicine, yang qi is like electricity in the outside world, just like the sun in nature. If there is no electricity, all electrical devices, are just for show. If there is no sun in nature, there is no other way but to wander the earth.

Therefore, the Nei Jing says that yang qi is like the sky and the sun, and when it is lost, life is folded and does not shine. It means that Yang Qi is compared to the sun.

Yang is important, isn't it? What's the function of that?

A propulsive effect, two warming effect, three gasification effect, four defensive effect, five consolidation effect, etc.

The human body five viscera and six bowels, and so on all the organs, if you want to play a normal function, there must be sufficient yang qi, that is to say, the total source of energy for the body's vital activities is the yang qi, such as breathing, thinking, talking and so on everything has to be in the yang qi under the action of the function can play a normal function.

Yang energy comes from the digestion and absorption of drinking food by the spleen and stomach.

The function of the spleen, mainly the main transport, the main transport sub-transportation of water and dampness, and the transport of water and grain, transport is the transport, the transformation is to eat pork, to be transformed into human meat Oh.

If the spleen yang is sufficient, the spleen functions normally, transforming dietary substances into qi and blood to spread to all organs of the body. It also expels garbage from the body.

Therefore, it is said that the spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and the spleen is the foundation of the latter day.

If Spleen-Yang is damaged and the function of the Spleen declines, it cannot properly transform dietary substances into Qi and Blood to spread throughout the body and produces a large amount of waste. This is the generation of dampness. Therefore, the spleen is the source of phlegm and dampness.

The function of the kidneys, I'll simply say that the function of the kidneys is to be the main collector, and there are many other functions, and the relationship between the kidneys and the heart is very important. Now the main understanding of the collection it. Neijing said, the kidney is a water organ, subject to the five viscera and six bowels of the essence and hidden. The kidney is the foundation of the innate.

Kidney water rises, heart fire falls, the heart and kidneys intermingle, and the kidneys have sufficient yin and yang. Then the body will be strong and healthy. On the contrary, if the Heart and Kidneys do not intermingle, the condition of heat in the Upper Jiao and cold in the Lower Jiao will be formed.

If the consumption of yang qi in a day is 100, and the yang qi gained from three meals a day is 130, minus the consumption of yang qi in a day, there is still 30 yang qi left, and this extra yang qi will be stored in the kidneys.

On the contrary, a day's consumption of yang energy is 150, while the yang energy gained from three meals a day is 80, subtracting the day's consumption of yang energy is still short of 70, then the shortfall of 70 yang energy will be taken out in the kidneys.

For a short period of time, the deficiency of yang energy is temporarily borrowed from the kidneys, but if it is so for a long period of time, then the body will be unwell, that is to say, it will get sick.

From the above, we can learn that the formation of cold hands and feet is caused by the spleen and kidney yang qi insufficiency caused by the body yang qi deficiency, the heart yang is also insufficient, the heart yang blood transportation weakness, thus causing cold hands and feet.

Of course, there are other reasons, such as qi stagnation caused by the blood, and so on, it is necessary for the physician to carefully analyze, but most of the limbs cold cause or because of the weakness of yang qi caused.

If it can be determined that it is caused by a deficiency of Spleen and Kidney Yang. You can try moxibustion or a foot bath.

Moxibustion selected, Yongquan, foot Sanli, Sanyinjiao, Sea of Blood, Guanyuan, Shenque, Kidney Yu, Spleen Yu, Vital Gate, and other acupuncture points.

Foot bath can use ginger, mugwort leaves, pepper, decocted and added to white wine, and then soak your feet, I recommend that it is the morning or afternoon foot bath, do not soak at night, soak for ten minutes, such as feeling to sweat to stop.

Usually the diet is forbidden to eat cold, add more clothes to protect the cold, rest before ten o'clock in the evening, get up in the morning to exercise, but to the extent of not sweating. Avoid tobacco and alcohol, less room.

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