Due to the change of living habits, the prevalence of air-conditioning, and the popularity of various cold drinks, more and more people have joined the "body cold" team.
Such people often have the following symptoms: 1. Cold hands and feet, afraid of cold, and easy to catch a cold; 2. Fatigue, edema, pale lips, and white tongue coating; 3. Women with dysmenorrhea and low menstrual flow. Have blood clots; 4. Loose stools, easy to diarrhea; 5. Light color, frequent urination, and excessive urine output; 6. Poor appetite, often feeling tasteless when eating.
Causes of body cold
1. External cold injury
The cold of the external environment, for example, the temperature drops in autumn and winter, and the weather is cold. If you don't pay attention to clothes, you will easily feel the wind and cold.
2. Wearing out the inner cold
Short skirts, cropped clothing, halter clothing, bare shoulders, and ankles... These parts are the most afraid of cold, these places are exposed, so they are not cold. Strange.
3. Eat the inner cold What's more, when I wake up in the morning, I get a large glass of ice water, and the fruits are eaten out of the refrigerator. In this way, if you eat for a long time, your inner cold will come out.
Fourth, boil out the inner cold
At eleven o'clock in the evening, the yin qi is at its peak, and the yang qi is first born. If you don’t sleep at this time for a long time, Yin will prosper yang deficiency, and yang deficiency will cause cold.
V. Deficiency of internal cold
Modern people are under high pressure and fast-paced life, and they consume more positive energy in the body. If you don’t pay attention to health preservation, it will consume much more than nourishment, the internal organs will be weak, and the slow operation will breed internal cold.
6. Being lazy with internal cold
Movement is yang, while tranquility is yin. Only by regular exercise can the blood and qi be not blocked. But modern people sit for a day at work and lie down when they come home. If you do not move, the circulation of qi and blood will be weak, and the function of internal organs will be weakened, and cold will be generated internally.
The hazards of body cold
"A hundred diseases are caused by cold". If the cold in the body is not removed in time, it will penetrate into the joints step by step from the skin and the body.Visceral organs, our body will have various problems!
In severe cases, the invisible function declines will form tangible stasis and lumps. The flow of Qi and blood slows down like a river of sediment and stasis, forming nodules and cysts everywhere in the body. It can also cause intractable diseases such as tumors, blood occlusion, and stroke!
How to dispel cold
So, how to dispel cold most effectively?
Danggui Sini Decoction
Zhang Zhongjing has prepared a prescription for this kind of problem, the first prescription for nourishing blood, channeling blood, and saving the body-Danggui Sini Decoction!
" Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" records: "Patients with cold hands and feet, thin pulse, Angelica Sini Decoction is the main one."
Medicine composition: Angelica, Guizhi, peony, Asarum, moxibustion licorice , tongcao, jujube.
Specific prescriptions need to be treated by professional physicians based on syndrome differentiation and guidance of medication.
The weather is getting colder and colder. If you want to force out the cold in the body, besides decoction, there are these methods:
angelica ginger lamb soup
Ingredients: 20 grams of angelica, 30 grams of ginger, 500 grams of mutton, Rice wine and seasoning are appropriate.
Method: Wash the lamb, cut it into pieces, put it in the pot with plenty of water, and remove it for later use. Add angelica, ginger, rice wine and seasonings, simmer for 1-2 hours, eat meat and drink soup.
yam wolfberry mutton soup
Material: 500 grams of mutton,200 grams of yam, 20 grams of wolfberry, and a piece of ginger.
Method: After cutting the lamb, put it in the pot with enough water and remove it for later use, then cut the yam, smash the old ginger and set aside, put the oil in the pot, put the onion and saute after the oil is hot, add the mutton, and after the mutton is over Add water and a small amount of cooking wine, yam and wolfberry. After boiling, simmer on low heat for about an hour. After turning off the heat, add pepper and salt to taste, ready to eat.
Lamb has the effects of nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang, warming up qi and blood, appetizing and invigorating the spleen. Eating lamb in autumn and winter can not only resist wind and cold, but also nourish the body.
moxibustion Shenque, Mingmen, Yongquan
Acupuncture points that communicate energy from the outside world can absorb good energy and can also be invaded by pathogens. Therefore, Chinese medicine is opposed to wearing umbilical clothing.
Use the navel as the standard to make a circle around the waist. The intersection of the midline of the back (the depression under the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra) is the Mingmen point . It is the foundation of vitality and the gateway of life.
Yongquan Point is the foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian Jing point, alias Dichong, located in the anterior 1/3 of the plantar (detoe), and the toe is sunken when plantar flexion.
Moxibustion at each acupoint for about 20 minutes, pay attention to drink more porridge and soup before and after moxibustion.
get more sun
It is best to be in a sunny period from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Go out more in the sun. Helps supplement vitamin D, prevent osteoporosis, and improve cold resistance.
In addition, clothing should also be protected from cold and warm. It is also helpful to exercise properly and soak your feet before going to bed.
Produced by Jilin Daily
Planning: Jiang Zhongxiao
Author: Zhuang Zhuang
Editor: Ma He
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