What kind of constitution do people who are afraid of cold and heat have?

In outpatient clinics, we often see people who say that they are "afraid of eating cold food. If they eat something cold, their stomach will feel uncomfortable and their mouth will water. They can't eat hot food because it will cause a sore throat if it is too hot." Easily get angry." As a result, these patients are very confused and often ask their doctors whether they are "cold or hot"?

In fact, it is very rare for a person's physique to have only cold and hot. It usually has both cold and hot, but the location and amount of cold and hot are different. There is a very famous prescription in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" written by Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty called "Banxia Xiexin Decoction", which is composed of pinellia, dried ginger, coptis, skullcap, ginseng, red dates, Zhigancao, etc. From the composition of the prescription, we can see that pinellia pinellia and dried ginger are hot in nature, while Coptis chinensis and Scutellaria baicalensis are cold in nature. This prescription contains both cold and hot drugs, which are used to treat the simultaneous presence of cold and heat in the human body. There are many more such recipes in this book.

It shows that whether a person is healthy or sick, the body is hot and cold at the same time. This is a common state. It cannot simply be said that a person's physique is "cold base". ”, or “hot bottom”.

In the "Huangdi Neijing", it has been recognized that a person is a whole of yin and yang, "there is yin in yang, and there is yang in yin", "yang defends the outside and is solid, and yin stores essence" "Qi Ji Ye"... all emphasize the integrity of yin and yang, and neither side can exist alone without the other.

The human body is a whole of yin and yang. For example, the surface of the human body belongs to yang and the inside belongs to yin; the top belongs to yang and the bottom belongs to yin; the back belongs to yang and the front belongs to yin...

Cold and heat also have their own yin and yang attributes. Cold belongs to yin and heat belongs to yang. Therefore, cold and heat exist at the same time inside a person's body, which is why many people can't figure out whether they are cold or hot.

So, when a person is unclear about his own constitution, he must not take supplements casually, because adjusting the cold and heat in a person's body is a very complicated matter. Their parts are different. The degree is different. If the supplement is not appropriate, it will not be effective and may produce many side effects!

Common cold and heat constitution types

1. Cold spleen and stomach, liver and gallbladder heat

This type of constitution has both cold and heat. It is relatively common and occurs in many people. Eating something cold will cause stomach pain, bloating, bad stools, and drooling. . . Eating hot food can easily lead to insomnia, dreaminess, irritability, anger, tinnitus, dizziness, etc.

People with this kind of constitution have insufficient Qi in the spleen and stomach, and the spleen and stomach are relatively weak and cold. Therefore, after cold things enter the stomach, the gastrointestinal tract cannot bear it, and various discomforts will occur. The liver and gallbladder have relatively strong fire. This fire is mainly caused by the lack of "liver blood", which cannot balance the "fire" of the liver and gallbladder. It is often seen in women who usually have scanty menstruation, delayed menstruation, or even amenorrhea. They are in a state of "blood loss", so eating hot things, such as chili peppers and fried things, can easily cause you to get angry. Use some fire-clearing medicine to make your stomach and intestines easily uncomfortable.

For this kind of people, warming the spleen and stomach, nourishing the liver and blood, and slowing the liver fire are the main treatments. The proportion and combination of drugs must be determined based on the individual situation.

2. Hot above and cold below

This type is also very common. This type of people are prone to dry throat, sore throat, tonsil inflammation, flustered and irritable, and cough with yellow phlegm. And the lower part of the body is very cold.

Some people are prone to getting angry on the upper part, and prone to edema in the lower part of the body. They are afraid of cold in their legs, feet, knees, frequent urination, and frequent nocturia...

This kind of situation occurs frequently. It is caused by excessive heart fire and kidney deficiency. Traditional Chinese medicine says that "fire-based inflammation is on the upper side, and water-based inflammation is on the lower side." That is to say, the body's deficient fire is concentrated in the upper part of the human body, especially above the chest; while water-cold Qi is concentrated in the lower part of the human body, resulting in a state of "water and fire deficiency" .

Traditional Chinese medicine says that "water and fire are signs of yin and yang", "left and right are the paths of yin and yang", "the way of heaven turns right and the way of earth turns left", which means that the yin and yang represented by water and fire should originally be directed by water. Going up, fire goes down. After water and fire blend, a state of balance between water and fire is presented. If this state of balance is lost, fire does not go down but only goes up, and water does not go up but only goes down, then there will be a state of hotness above and coldness below.

This state is mainly a heart and kidney problem. The treatment method is to warm the kidney water and reduce the heart fire, but cannot use the method of clearing the fire. The clearer the fire, the colder the kidney water will be, and the heart fire will be reduced. Can't come down.

3. Cold outside, hot inside

This type is also relatively common. Many people will have hands, feet or body that are afraid of cold. The hands and feet are cold, but the inside of the body is very hot and very hot. It is easy to get angry, have sore throat, mouth sores, insomnia and dreaminess, and be easily upset and irritable... The main reason for the occurrence of this kind of situation is that the communication channel of yin and yang in the human body is blocked. , Yang Qi should be on the surface of the body, warming the body, and Yin Qi should be inside the body, nourishing the organs and meridians.

Due to some reasons, such as blocked meridians, irregular Chongmai, cold on the body surface, blocked lung qi, etc., the paths of yin and yang qi in and out are blocked, so yang qi cannot spread to the body surface normally. , accumulates in the body, forming fiery heat. At the same time, the body surface loses the warming effect of Yang Qi and becomes cold.

It is indeed a very common situation to be unable to stand the heat or the cold. It is necessary to distinguish the type of cold and heat constitution based on personal circumstances, and who has more cold and heat in the body. , identify the parts where cold and heat exist, figure out the causes of this state, and then make targeted adjustments.

Only by understanding the types and causes of your cold and heat constitution can you make targeted adjustments to your personal living and eating habits in your daily life and diet.

Adjusting this kind of physique through medicine is also relatively slow, some take one or two months, and some take half a year or even longer. Therefore, you must be patient when adjusting your physique. This is completely different from treating acute illnesses such as colds and diarrhea!

If cold and heat are obvious, you can take Chinese medicine decoction first, because the decoction has a fast effect and has a rapid onset of effect; after your physical condition has improved to a certain extent, you can then take Chinese medicine pills, ointments, etc. to consolidate the curative effect. , completely adjusted.