The feeling of cold hands and feet in winter is really annoying. As if your hands and feet don't belong to you. What can I do to get rid of the cold feeling?
Acupoint massage: the soles of the feet are opposite, rubbing the Yongquan point on the soles of the feet can drive away the cold. If you find it difficult to rub your feet, rub your feet with your hands. Yongquan point is on the sole of the foot, which is a depression where the toes bend and the sole appears.
Dietary assistance: Eat foods rich in vitamin E, iron and protein, as well as hot foods such as sesame, litchi and longan. Also, when it's cold, it's more direct and immediate to drink a little wine and feel the warmth. But don't drink too much.
Exercise: This is the best way. Because exercise can make blood circulation smooth, promote metabolism and help cold hands and feet. Such as jogging, cycling, swimming, etc. Of course, it is best to achieve the effect of sweating, panting and rapid heartbeat.
It is common for some people to feel cold hands and feet in winter. This is mainly because the natural temperature drops, the yang is insufficient, the human body itself is also insufficient, and the body appears yang deficiency. In addition, due to the cold weather, the ability of vasoconstriction and blood return will be weakened, which will make the blood circulation of hands and feet, especially fingertips, not smooth, which is often called "poor circulation of nerve endings", resulting in the feeling of cold hands and feet. This situation generally happens to women, especially women over middle age. Mental workers are more likely to have cold hands and feet than manual workers, but they are rare among healthy young men.
Generally speaking, anemia and gastrointestinal diseases, malnutrition or hypothyroidism cause systemic or local poor blood circulation, or limb peripheral blood circulation disorder will lead to cold hands and feet. Especially in the menstrual period of pregnancy and childbirth, women are more likely to cause cold hands and feet because of their weak constitution.
In medicine, frequent and long-term cold hands and feet can be called "chills".
It can be prevented and self-regulated if it is not very serious (generally not very serious, not unbearable biting cold).
First, strengthen physical exercise.
Especially those who sit for a long time or stand for a long time, we must pay attention to intermittent exercise, do more hands and feet and waist activities, and strengthen blood circulation.
Second, pay attention to diet.
Eat more warm food to improve the body's cold tolerance. Common warm foods are: cow, sheep, dog, chicken, garlic, pepper, ginger, onion, yam, longan and so on.
Third, three recipes
1. Fried mutton with shredded ginger
Slice the mutton. Shred ginger.
Add a little oil to the pot and bring it to a high fire. When the oil smokes, add pepper and star anise, stir-fry until fragrant, add shredded ginger, stir-fry, add mutton slices, add salt and monosodium glutamate, and pour sesame oil out of the pot.
2. Red dates and wolfberry mutton soup
Cut the mutton into eight pieces and soak the bleeding water in a boiling pot for later use. Wash jujube and wolfberry for later use.
Add water to the pot, add mutton, onion, ginger and aniseed and cook together. When it is half cooked, add jujube, medlar and salt, and then cook. If you don't like the taste of mutton, you can add one or two pieces of orange peel to increase dates to reduce the smell.
3. Three spice peppers
Red pepper (choose pepper varieties according to the spicy degree of food), put it on the fire and dry it until it is close to burnt; Peanuts, fried until crisp (sesame seeds are also acceptable); Bake the scallion on the fire until the outer layer is burnt, and peel off the outer layer.
Mash the above three raw materials in a mortar, then mix them together and add salt and monosodium glutamate.
For friends who like spicy and coarse grains, this dish is the most delicious-the participation of three spices in pancakes and stuttering is the most enjoyable. When eating "Golden Pagoda" (Wotou), it is also a pleasure to put three spices in the hole of Wotou!
The above dishes must be useful for friends who are afraid of the cold. Try them. Circulatory disorder
1, weak heart, unable to supply blood to peripheral parts of the body.
2. Anemia: insufficient circulating blood volume or low hemoglobin and red blood cells.
3. The vasoconstriction and blood reflux ability of human body will be weakened, which makes the blood circulation of hands and feet, especially fingertips, poor, which is often called peripheral circulation.
deficiency of yang
Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet is a closed disease, that is, closed. Affected by factors such as cold weather or body cold, the liver pulse is cold, and the hematopoietic function of the liver is affected, resulting in kidney yang deficiency, chills in limbs, redness or whitish hands and feet, and even a feeling of pain.
Hormonal changes caused by menstruation and fertility
Women in the menstrual period, pregnant women and other extraordinary physiological periods, due to physical weakness, are more likely to cause cold hands and feet.
Disease factors
Raynaud's disease, Raynaud's syndrome's disease and Takayasu's arteritis mostly occur in young women. Thromboangiitis obliterans mostly occurs in middle-aged men.
In addition, people with excessive mental stress, excessive psychological sensitivity, usually worrying, and often making uneasy voices are also high-risk groups of hand, foot and mouth disease syndrome.
Lycium barbarum is rich in anthocyanins, which can improve blood circulation, restore lost microvascular function, strengthen fragile blood vessels and make them more elastic. Drinking Lycium barbarum soaked in water every day can play a good role in regulating the symptoms of cold hands and feet.