For cold winters, some people can easily deal with it, while others will find it particularly difficult. For example, some people feel particularly cold as soon as they enter winter, especially their hands and feet often have cold conditions. Even if they wear very thick shoes and socks and thick gloves, they cannot be relieved in time. For these people, it is very important to master the methods to relieve cold hands and feet.
How to relieve cold hands and feet in winter?
, exercise
Reasonable exercise can make the heart and lung function stronger, and also make the blood circulation smoother, which will prompt the end hands and feet to get sufficient blood and oxygen supply, thereby alleviating the coldness of hands and feet. It is recommended to choose the appropriate method according to your physical condition and hobbies, such as yoga, Tai Chi or Baduan Jin . Exercise until you sweat slightly, and you don’t necessarily need to sweat profusely.
, sunbathing
Cold hands and feet are also closely related to the lack of meridians and insufficient yang energy. Moreover, winter is a season where yin is prone to excessive and yang decline. Therefore, you should bask in the sun appropriately, especially the back more, which can make the meridian qi of bladder become warm and smooth, and encourage the yang energy in the kidney to rise in time, thereby alleviating the coldness of hands and feet.
Traditional medicine believes that The meridians of kidney start from the feet. When the feet are surrounded by warmth, the yang energy in the kidneys can rise faster, which is of some help to relieve cold hands and feet. Therefore, you must develop the habit of soaking feet. If you can add some Chinese medicine to the foot soaking water, such as dodder or epimedium , and rub your feet after soaking your feet, the effect will be more obvious.
, moxibustion
Moxibustion is a commonly used treatment method in traditional Chinese medicine. It can help the human body remove the yin and cold energy and restore the yang energy faster. Therefore, patients with cold hands and feet can perform moxibustion on specific acupoints, such as Dazhui point, Zusanli and Guanyuan point.
5. Develop good eating habits
This type of people should also develop good eating habits. First of all, they should not be on diet. Secondly, they should not be partial or picky in eating, nor should they eat too little. Otherwise, the cold hands and feet will become more serious due to insufficient qi and blood and deficiency of yang energy.
6, diet therapy
Patients with cold hands and feet can also eat more warm and tonic substances appropriately, such as Astragalus , Angelica and other Chinese medicinal materials, or foods with warm and tonic effects such as mutton, chicken, ginger, and jujube.
7. Hot compress dantian
. Dantian is the place around the navel where yang energy gathers. Heat compress here will be of great help to the rise of yang energy, thereby alleviating the coldness of hands and feet. You can use coarse salt bags, medicine bags and other substances to apply hot compress around the dantian, such as Shenque point , Guanyuan point or Qihai point.
Message from the doctor
Cold hands and feet may have a certain relationship with weak spleen and stomach, because such people cannot absorb the nutrients in food in time, and it is easy to cause insufficient yang energy and poor blood supply due to indigestion, which will lead to insufficient temperature of hands and feet. Even if such people consume a large amount of tonic food, the effect is minimal. It is recommended to regulate the spleen and stomach first, which can make the tonic effect twice the result with half the effort. At the same time, you should develop the habit of soaking feet or moxibustion. Pay special attention in diet. If you know the acupoints well, you can moxibustion or hot compress on the relevant acupoints, and the effect will be more obvious.
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