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What is the reason for the cold and hot hands and feet?

When the hands and feet are cold, we generally think that it is due to the weather. In the case of wearing less clothes, it affects the blood circulation in the human body, affects the smooth operation of qi and blood, and then the hands and feet are cold. This can be traced back to the four evils of traditional Chinese medicine, which are generally caused by deficiency of both spleen and kidney and deficiency of yang. From the point of view of modern medicine, cold hands and feet are probably cardiovascular problems, which shows that cold hands and feet cannot be treated as trivial matters. So what is the reason for the cold hands and feet?

1, anemia: Because every woman has a special physiological period, many women have more or less symptoms of anemia and ischemia. For women with obvious anemia, it is easy to have cold hands and feet. For such women, they can eat more hemoglobin and iron-rich foods in their lives to help improve anemia symptoms.

2, stress: due to subjective reasons, the pressure of the body itself is too large, it will also affect blood activity, leading to cold hands and feet.

3. Cardiovascular disease: When the blood vessels at the far end of the body are blocked by blood clots, the calves and feet will feel pain and soreness, and even the hands and feet will be cold when walking. For people with cardiovascular diseases, the symptoms of cold hands and feet at night will be more obvious, and this situation needs treatment.

4, the cause of the disease: for hypothyroidism, neurological dysfunction, hypoglycemia, it is also prone to cold hands and feet, due to endocrine hormone imbalance, local or systemic blood circulation disorders, resulting in cold hands and feet. When gastrointestinal dysfunction also affects the body's absorption of heat, these diseases will appear cold hands and feet, which can not be ignored.

5, the body is too thin: too thin, the peripheral blood circulation in the human body is relatively poor, when the blood circulates to the periphery, it is easy to have cold hands and feet. In addition, the activity of hands and feet is relatively large, because there is less fat, heat dissipation is fast, and hands and feet are easy to be cold.

6, Yang deficiency: Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet is a kind of "closed disease", the so-called "closed" is unreasonable, affected by factors such as cold weather or body cold, resulting in cold liver veins. The hematopoietic function of the liver is affected, resulting in kidney yang deficiency, cold limbs, red or white hands and feet, and even a feeling of pain.