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It is common for some people to feel cold hands and feet in winter. This is mainly because the temperature in nature is reduced and the yang is insufficient, and the human body's own yang is also insufficient, and the body appears yang deficiency. In addition, because of the cold weather, the ability of blood vessel contraction and blood return will be weakened, which makes the blood circulation of hands and feet, especially fingertips, not smooth, which is often called "poor circulation of nerve endings", which leads to the total feeling of cold hands and feet. This situation generally occurs in women, especially in women over middle age. Mental workers are more likely to have cold hands and feet than manual workers, but rarely in healthy young men.
Cold can make people's whole body or local blood circulation poor, or the blood circulation of limbs is blocked, which will lead to cold hands and feet. Often long-term cold hands and feet, can be called "cold syndrome." Traditional Chinese medicine theory holds that this is a reaction of qi deficiency, qi stagnation and yang deficiency. Women are more likely to cause cold hands and feet due to physical weakness during special physiological periods such as menstruation, pregnancy and childbirth. If not prevented in time, it will lead to poor spirit, body chills, and serious varicose veins of lower limbs.
1.Eat American ginseng. This is a good medicine for invigorating qi, which is peaceful, nourishing but not dry. You can drink it in water alone.
2. Eat sesame seeds and peanuts. Rich in vitamin E and various nutrients, it can help the absorption of vitamin B and strengthen the nerve's ability to resist cold. Vitamin E also has the function of dilating blood vessels, which can strengthen the blood circulation of extremities.
3. Eat onions, peppers and other foods that can help the body generate heat and promote blood circulation.
Other measures:
Usually use hot water to soak your feet, which can not only keep your body warm, but also relieve tired nerves.
Methods to improve cold hands and feet in winter
Clinical manifestations of kidney-yang deficiency:1.Low back pain and chills. 2. Cold hands and feet and frequent urination.
The foods suitable for people with kidney-yang deficiency are seafood and leek seeds. Kidney can be supplemented by Jinkui Shenqi Pill and Wuzi Yanzong Pill.
In the case of kidney yin deficiency, the fire is easy to flourish, and the fire is prosperous due to yin deficiency. If those warm aphrodisiac drugs are used again at this time, it is equivalent to adding fuel to the fire, and the patient's heat is even greater. On the other hand, if the patient has kidney-yang deficiency and is afraid of cold, if you use some yin-nourishing drugs again, it will add insult to injury, and the patient can't stand it either.
The human body temperature is maintained between 36 and 37 degrees Celsius. When the skin of the human body comes into contact with the outside temperature, it will be directly transmitted to the life center of the brain, which controls breathing, heartbeat and body temperature. When it is hot, the body temperature control center will dominate the excitement of sympathetic nerves, making the skin capillaries and sweat pores open to dissipate heat and sweat; When you feel cold, the sympathetic nerve will cause shivering in all parts of the limb, including the muscles near the jaws, so that the muscles and fat cells will generate heat energy due to contraction and resist the chill, which is why people will tremble when they feel cold.
People are warm-blooded animals, so basically there should be no question of "who is more afraid of the cold". At the same temperature, some people may be particularly afraid of the cold because of their different subjective feelings. Of course, the fat layer can isolate the low temperature, but because the effect of fat cells on heat production is worse than that of muscles, people with thick fat are not necessarily less afraid of cold, but may be more afraid of cold!
Some diseases will affect the body's inadaptability to cold and heat. For example, patients with hyperthyroidism have excessive metabolism due to excessive excitement of sympathetic nerves, so they are quite heat-intolerant; On the contrary, patients with hypothyroidism cannot generate enough heat energy to keep out the cold because of poor sympathetic nerve function.
There are also people who smoke for a long time. Because of the lack of oxygen in the body, the surrounding microvessels are easy to circulate poorly. When it is arterial microvessels that are not smooth, it is easy to feel cold. However, if the vein microvasculature is not smooth, although there is no special feeling of being afraid of cold, the blood vessels can not expand and the blood can not circulate, resulting in local hypoxia, and the hands and feet are prone to cold.
At ordinary times, urban "lazy people" who "don't sit when they can lie down and don't stand when they can sit" will also have the problem of not being cold-tolerant because of the decrease of basal metabolic rate.
Women are afraid of cold, make up some iron.
Generally speaking, women are more afraid of cold than men. Not long ago, two experts from a human health research institute in the United States conducted a grouping experiment on female volunteers. The experimental report found that people with low cold tolerance had obviously insufficient iron content in their blood. The main cause of iron deficiency in women is menstruation, which leads to a large loss of iron.
As we all know, iron is an important raw material for producing hemoglobin, which is the main functional substance in red blood cells and is responsible for the transport and metabolism of oxygen in the body. Iodine and tyrosine are the main raw materials for making thyroxine. Iodine needs to be continuously ingested from food, while tyrosine is generally synthesized by itself in the body. Long-term iodine deficiency will affect the synthesis of thyroxine, and the body's ability to keep out the cold will also be reduced.
How can I warm my hands and feet
● Soaking hands and feet locally with hot water before going to bed can not only promote the circulation of vascular endings, but also help sleep.
● After taking a shower or soaking in hot water, put on socks to keep warm immediately after drying.
● If women often have cold feet in winter, they can put hot water, rice wine and ginger slices in a bucket (the ratio of hot water to rice wine is1:1). In winter, when watching TV or after work, it helps to improve women's fear of cold.
Doing exercise is not afraid of the cold.
When the weather is cold, if you eat more and exercise less, it is easy to accumulate excess fat in your body. At this time, you can do more exercise, which can not only consume excessive fat, but also strengthen blood circulation and warm your body.
What to eat is not afraid of cold.
In winter, choose warm food or medicinal materials for tonic, so that the body's blood circulation is smooth and qi and blood are active, which can achieve the effect of keeping out the cold. Foods with warming function are generally red and sweet foods, or spicy condiments and foods. These foods have the effect of warming the body, nourishing the body and promoting metabolism. Warm and hot food suitable for winter.
Meat: mutton, beef, shrimp, sea cucumber, oyster, eel, venison, chicken liver and other meat rich in lipids and protein.
Fruits and vegetables: leek, perilla, green pepper, mustard, cabbage, pepper, onion, pumpkin, litchi, peach, longan, onion, ginger, garlic, etc.
Others: brown rice, sorghum, sesame seeds, and nuts, cashews, walnuts, chestnuts and other drupe foods.
When cooking or eating cold food, you can add some hot seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, pepper, ginseng, astragalus, dried tangerine peel or Chinese herbal medicines to reconcile. For example, when eating cold crabs, you can fry crabs with hot ginger to reduce the coldness of crabs. Common cold foods are loofah, wax gourd, celery, cucumber, kelp, frozen watercress, cabbage, etc. When cooking, you can use appropriate amount of onion, ginger, garlic and other seasonings to achieve the effect of neutralizing cold. In addition, wolfberry fruit, red dates, ginseng, longan pulp or ginger can also be used to brew tea for drinking, which can also play a role in keeping out the cold.
Winter medicinal diet warms the body and mind.
[Danggui Boiled Eggs] Ingredients: Danggui10g, 2 eggs, and appropriate amount of sugar. Practice: decoct angelica in water to remove residue, beat in eggs and cook, and add sugar. Can be eaten on an empty stomach in the morning. Function: nourishing yin and enriching blood. Angelica sinensis is an essential medicine for enriching blood and promoting blood circulation, while eggs nourish yin and blood. The combination of the two has a good blood-enriching effect. Treating blood deficiency can not nourish skin, numbness, coldness and itchy skin caused by meridians. [Huangqi Jujube Porridge] Ingredients: 20 grams of Huangqi, 20 grams of jujube, 50 grams of white rice, and appropriate amount of sugar. Practice: Radix Astragali is decocted in water to remove residue, then add jujube (removing core), white rice and porridge, and then add sugar. Function: supplementing qi and deficiency. In the prescription, Astragalus membranaceus tonifies qi and consolidates exterior, jujube tonifies spleen and stomach, stem rice tonifies middle energizer, tonifies spleen and regulates stomach. It can be used for breakfast of people with numbness of hands and feet due to qi deficiency.