In winter, if you are afraid of cold limbs, you should start with tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, strengthen the foundation and strengthen the yuan, and help your body recover.

It is a once-in-a-decade cold winter and a slight cold season, which is the coldest period in recent years. As the saying goes, a slight chill shrinks into a ball. For many people, especially female friends, the phenomenon of cold limbs is obviously aggravated, and even seriously affects sleep and daily life and work.

Fear of cold is a frequently-occurring disease, not a cold day. Although many people suffer from it, they can't see the whole picture, and some even think it is caused by physiological phenomena or natural constitution. In fact, fear of cold is a complex symptom, which needs dialectical thinking.

Fear of cold limbs is mostly caused by "Yuan Qi's weakness"

Fear of cold is mainly manifested in patients' conscious fear of cold. The main clinical manifestations are cold limbs, pale face, fatigue, lying warm, dry mouth, pale tongue with white fur, even spitting water, clearing the valley, muscle and vein contracture and local cold pain.

Winter is the owner of the collection, and silence is the most important thing. It is a normal physiological phenomenon that the human body should not use yang to hide the dragon, and the blood vessels are tight and the limbs are cold and warm.

However, if you are too afraid of the cold and develop into a disease that plagues your life, it belongs to the cold syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine. Clinically, chills are rare, mostly caused by improper diet or exogenous cold evil. Most of them are mainly symptoms of qi deficiency and physical failure.

The primordial qi has a powerful warming function, which regulates the body temperature by warming meat, filling skin and nourishing skin, and adapts to the cold and summer climate changes in nature.

Therefore, the normal movement of primordial qi can keep the body temperature constant and make the viscera and meridians of the body carry out normal physiological activities. Therefore, doctors generally believe that the main causes and pathogenesis of chills are low vitality, insufficient qi and blood, and the body can not resist yin cold, so it is also called deficiency cold.

As the cloud in Su Wen Ci Zhi Lun says, "Qi deficiency is also cold", while "Qi is the fire of life and the foundation of life" in Xunlu.

Starting with nourishing the spleen and kidney, strengthening the foundation and strengthening the yuan, and helping the body recover its vitality.

Based on the above reasons, the lack of vitality is the root of human body's fear of cold, while the theory of traditional Chinese medicine holds that vitality comes from innate essence, and the afterlife valley is subtle. According to the deficiency, the symptoms of fear of cold are also different, and the treatment methods are also very different:

1, all cold is kidney yang.

For deficiency syndrome of chills, kidney yang deficiency and kidney essence filling are common in clinic. Yuanyang in the kidney is the motive force of all functional activities of human body. Kidney yang vibrates, kidney qi is sufficient, viscera can be warmed, bones can be warmed, and all diseases are not born.

Kidney is the root of yang, kidney yang deficiency, life failure, loss of warmth, then cold limbs. Therefore, On Su Wenzhi's Zhen Da says: All cold is kidney.

The main clinical manifestations of kidney-yang deficiency are soreness and pain in the waist and knees; Men's impotence and premature ejaculation, women's palace cold infertility; Cold limbs and edema, especially below the waist, especially the lower limbs; White face, dizziness; Dark complexion, frequent urination, long and clear urine, and more nocturia; The tongue is pale, fat and white with fur, and the pulse is weak and late.

The main clinical treatment is to warm the kidney and strengthen yang, and protect the congenital. The main prescription can be Jingui Shenqi Pill, and some doctors think that the true yin is insufficient in biochemistry and the true yang is passive. Adopting the method of seeking yang from yin, adding Rehmannia glutinosa and Cornus officinalis into the recipe, achieving the purpose of reducing fire and tonifying kidney-yang, and making Yang Can get the help of yin, which is endless in biochemistry.

2. Spleen yang is weak and cold is endogenous.

Spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, in charge of Shui Gu's subtle and body muscles. The spread of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold in spleen and stomach theory points out that if the qi of spleen and stomach is sufficient, it can nourish the vitality ... the qi of spleen and stomach will be hurt, but the vitality will not be full, and diseases will arise.

The acquired essence of spleen yang transport provides energy for viscera activities, making it full of dirty qi, full of human spirit, moving freely, and nourishing limbs, making it full of health and not afraid of cold evil.

If the spleen and yang are weak, the qi and blood are passive, and the body loses temperature and cannot resist yin and cold, the cold comes from endogenous, that is, the theory of cold climate of various diseases says: the husband is dirty and qi-deficient. Then endogenous cold is also.

The clinical manifestations of spleen-yang deficiency mainly include anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, cold limbs, mental fatigue, sallow complexion, dizziness, pale lips, fat and tender tongue, thick and turbid fur and wide pulse. Shen Ling Baizhu Pill is the main treatment, and dried ginger and cinnamon can be added as appropriate to supplement fire and help yang.

The deficiency of spleen and kidney mentioned above is often not an independent event in clinic, because spleen is the foundation of acquired, kidney is the foundation of congenital, and the relationship between spleen and kidney is the relationship between acquired and congenital, and acquired and congenital are mutually supportive and promoting. Congenital warming stimulates the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow nourishes the congenital, kidney-yang deficiency declines, fire does not produce soil, and spleen-yang also declines.

The transportation and transformation of the spleen must be warm and steamed by kidney yang in order to be healthy. Kidney essence can only be filled by the transport of spleen and the subtle supplement of Shui Gu. Weakness of temper is often the gradual decline of kidney-yang deficiency, and it is often the extreme weakness of spleen-yang deficiency. Therefore, the deficiency of spleen and kidney yang is common in clinic, and the treatment method is to strengthen the foundation and strengthen the yuan, and the spleen and kidney are mutually beneficial and promote each other.

I recommend a good medicine for tonifying kidney and spleen-yam: spleen and spleen, spleen and kidney are supplemented together.

Sweet yam can tonify yang, tonify middle energizer, and enter spleen, lung and kidney meridians, which is the main medicine for lung and spleen. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, yam has five functions: benefiting kidney qi, strengthening spleen and stomach, stopping diarrhea, resolving phlegm and promoting fluid production, and moistening skin.

Yam, produced in Huaiqing, Jiaozuo, Henan Province, is the most famous yam, which is the top grade in Shennong's Materia Medica Classic. It is mainly used to tonify middle energizer, tonify deficiency, dispel cold and heat pathogens, tonify middle energizer and promote granulation. It is wise to take long clothes, not hungry, and prolong life. It is an excellent choice for people who are afraid of cold due to qi deficiency. Try to supplement their vitality from the daily diet therapy, and often take Hu Aishan powder to regulate the spleen and kidney.

In addition to using drugs to strengthen the body, strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidney, for people who are obviously afraid of cold in winter, it is sometimes difficult to warm the muscles and joints of limbs due to vasoconstriction, and external treatment can often be used to warm yang and dispel cold and nourish vitality.

Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Warm acupuncture can be used, with Renmai Qihai, Guanyuan, Zhongshan, Mingmen and Dazhui as the main points, Zusanli, Sanyinjiao and Shenshu as the matching points, and the methods of lifting, inserting, twisting and supplementing can be used, and at the same time, the points of Qihai, Guanyuan, Mingmen and Shenshu can be irradiated with external red light, thus invigorating qi and tonifying qi.

Moxibustion: it can gently moxibustion Qihai, Guanyuan, Zhongji, Shenshu and Mingmen: Qihai and Guanyuan are commonly used combinations in clinic, which have the functions of nourishing yuan and benefiting qi, strengthening yang and resolving stagnation; Zhongwan, Shenshu and Mingmen are the places where the fire of Mingmen occurs, and where the kidney qi gathers, the combination of warm moxibustion can play the role of consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, and lead the fire back to the yuan.

Massage: Massage Mingmen, Shenque and Guanyuan points frequently.

Mingmen point: under the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra, it is the foundation of vitality and the door of life, so it is named Mingmen point. When the fire of Mingmen is weakened, cold pathogens will easily invade the human body, causing symptoms such as chills and joint pain. Therefore, this point is often used for strengthening yang, tonifying kidney and dispelling cold.

Operation method: rubbing method (stick thenar, palmar root or thenar of the palm on a certain part and rub it back and forth in a straight line), with heat penetration as the degree, 1.2 times a day.

Shenque point: among the navel, navel is the congenital knot, the acquired qi shed, the foundation of the five internal organs, and the root of qi returning to Tibet, which can invigorate the yang of the whole body and has the functions of warming yang, dispelling cold and dredging collaterals.

Operation method: put your hands together, align your palms and stick them on Shenque point, 15 for 20 minutes each time, 1 time every day.

Guanyuan point: located in the middle of the abdomen, 3 inches below the umbilicus, is the intersection of yin and yang, which can greatly replenish Yuanyang, hence the name Guanyuan point. Guanyuan point has the functions of warming kidney, dispelling cold and benefiting qi, and is a commonly used point for treating deficiency of true yang, deficiency of kidney yang, blood stasis due to cold and stagnation of yin and cold.

Operation method: rubbing method (stick thenar, palmar root or thenar of the palm on a certain part and rub it back and forth in a straight line), with heat penetration as the degree, 1.2 times a day.