Blood foot is the root of dispelling cold and dampness.
As long as there is enough blood and kidney qi in the body, the blood circulation will be smooth and the whole body will feel warm and comfortable. Cold and dampness have no place in front of sufficient blood and smooth blood flow. Without cold and dampness, there would be no pain, and there would be no spots, acne and tinea.
Feel warm all over after exercise.
People who often exercise, do manual labor and do housework will feel the heat in their bodies is large. This is because exercise generates heat and plays a role in dispelling cold and dampness. However, if you only pay attention to exercise and the blood in your body is insufficient, you will be tired after exercise, your resistance will drop, cold and dampness will take advantage of it, and your body will still be weak and sick.
Proper sweating is the best way to dispel cold.
Proper sweating can dispel cold. Whether sweating after exercise, eating warm food and sweating, or sweating slightly after soaking your feet, you can achieve the effect of dispelling cold.
Diet to dispel cold
Eating spicy and warm food often can dispel the cold. Due to the different geographical climate, each region has its own diet habit of dispelling cold. For example, the north likes to eat warm and high-calorie foods such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, beef and mutton to get rid of the cold; Sichuanese like spicy food; Guizhou people like hot and sour; Hunan people like to fry spicy food; Others like to drink medicinal liquor to dispel cold. Although they are different, their functions are to dispel cold, damp and keep warm.
Hyperthermia to dispel cold
Heat therapy to dispel cold is one of the simple, natural and effective methods used by people since ancient times. Some use hot water bottles, or heated sand, stone, salt and paraffin; Some use moxa sticks to smoke the painful parts, or stick ginger slices or garlic slices on the painful parts or acupoints and then use moxa sticks; Some use traditional Chinese medicine to boil blisters and smoke; Some use various physical therapy instruments to irradiate the cold; Some use scraping, cupping, etc. to dispel the cold. It can be said that there are many methods to dispel cold in hospitals and people, and these methods can alleviate and treat various diseases caused by cold and dampness to a certain extent.
Self-made external medicinal liquor for dispelling cold
Take 50 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum and soak it in 250 ml of white wine (55 degrees). The whole Zanthoxylum bungeanum should be soaked for a week before use. If the Zanthoxylum bungeanum is put into a pulverizer and ground into powder, it can be used after soaking for1~ 2 days. (Zanthoxylum bungeanum should be bought in the supermarket with better quality. Don't buy Zanthoxylum bungeanum powder sold in small roadside stalls to prevent counterfeiting and affect the curative effect. )
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is warm, which can dispel the cold in the middle, remove the cold in the six fu organs, dredge blood vessels, adjust joints and warm the waist and knees. Rub pepper wine on the painful part and rub it up and down. After rubbing, you can directly smoke it with green moxa sticks, or you can put on a hot water bottle. Be careful not to burn it, and you can simmer it through clothes. This method has a good effect on treating low back pain, knee joint swelling and pain, scapulohumeral periarthritis and so on.
Self-made cold-dispelling cotton pad
There is a folk prescription: in the summer days, squeeze ginger into juice, soak cotton in it, squeeze it a little, don't twist it, and dry it directly in the sun. Then wrap the cotton in cloth and sew it into a small cotton pad. In winter, where there is pain, sew a small cloth pad on the corresponding painful part of the close-fitting clothes and wear it all the time. Generally, after half a month of use, change it to a new one. When in use, it will be even better if a hot water bottle is put on the outside of this ginger cotton pad. (Note: Small cotton pads don't have to be made in summer, but they can be made in winter. )
Ginger is warm, which has the functions of warming meridians to dispel cold, warming stomach and stopping vomiting. This method can not only treat pain in neck, shoulder, waist and legs, but also treat chronic bronchitis and asthma, which are the most common diseases of the elderly in winter. Chronic bronchitis and asthma may be caused by kidney deficiency and kidney cold. Old people with chronic bronchitis and asthma must pay attention to keeping warm at the waist. You can put a ginger juice pad on your back and waist, and then put a hot water bottle. You can also make a bag for the hot water bottle, which is more convenient to carry on your back or tie around your waist.