What to do if your hands and feet are cold

Those with cold hands and feet are mostly due to insufficient Yang Qi. The limbs are not warm and cold hands and feet are called Jue syndrome in Chinese medicine. The yin and yang meridians of the human body are connected at the ends of the limbs. If they are not connected smoothly, coldness will occur in the limbs. As the weather turns colder, cold hands and feet appear. This is mostly caused by insufficient yang energy in the human body. The blood cannot be moved by the qi to the ends of the limbs, and the hands and feet cannot be warmed and become cold. There are two types of deficiency of Yang Qi: congenital and acquired. Some people with cold constitution will have insufficient Yang Qi congenitally. Others are caused by acquired disorders, such as eating too much cold drinks in summer and wearing too little in winter, leading to the invasion of cold evil. Menorrhagia in middle-aged and elderly women when they are young can also lead to insufficient Yang Qi and cause cold syndrome. In addition, factors such as excessive mental stress and excessive mental work can also damage Yang Qi and cause cold hands and feet syndrome. 1: Soak your feet in mugwort leaf and peppercorn water; first boil the mugwort and peppercorns in boiling water, then adjust the temperature to about 40 degrees C to soak your feet. It is best to soak until your body becomes slightly damp, but be careful not to wait until you sweat to prevent the qi from leaking out with sweat. 2: Keep warm and eat warm foods; eat less cold foods in your diet and eat more warm foods such as beef, sheep, chicken, Chinese cabbage, radish, nuts, carrots, onions, and bell peppers. When cooking and making soup, it is appropriate to add some warm and cold-dispersing spices, such as aniseed, Sichuan peppercorns, pepper, fennel, nutmeg, ginger, etc., which have a good effect of warming the meridians and dispelling cold.

Proper exercise is also important