Please read down patiently to learn more about cold and dampness. Foot bath medicine containing ginger juice can show cold and dampness. The following symptoms or characteristics of the body indicate that there is cold and dampness in the body: * Pale, blue, dark and black, indicating that there may be cold in the body. The darker the color, the heavier the cold and dampness. * White tongue coating indicates cold and dampness in the body. * Recurrent oral ulcers represent cold in the body. * When the breath is bad, the tongue coating is white, indicating that there is cold in the body. * When coughing, the sputum is thin and white, indicating that there is cold in the body. A runny nose indicates cold in the body. * Sweat coming out is cold sweat, indicating that there is cold in the body. I like sneezing, especially when I get up in the morning. Sneezing in the wind shows that I have a cold. * When you have a cold and a fever, you feel cold all over, which means there is cold in your body. * Frequent abdominal pain and diarrhea indicate that there is cold in the body. * acne and spots on the face indicate that there is cold in the body. * cold hands and feet all the year round, indicating that there is cold in the body. * Ankle edema, representing kidney deficiency and kidney cold. * Symptoms such as joint pain of limbs, neck and shoulder pain, scapulohumeral periarthritis, backache, etc. It means there is cold and dampness in the body. The more painful parts, the longer the time, and the heavier the cold and dampness in the body. The method of eliminating cold and dampness. Blood foot is the root of dispelling cold and dampness. Only when the body has sufficient qi and blood and kidney qi can the blood circulation be guaranteed and the whole body will feel warm and comfortable. Cold and dampness have no place in the face of sufficient blood and smooth blood flow. Without cold and dampness, there would be no pain, and there would be no spots, acne and ringworm. Feel hot all over after exercise. People who exercise regularly, do manual labor and do housework will feel a lot of heat in their bodies. This is because exercise generates heat, which plays a role in dispelling cold and dampness. However, if you only pay attention to exercise, you will be tired after exercise, your resistance will drop, cold and dampness will take advantage of it, and your body will still be weak and sick. Proper sweating is the best way to drive away the cold. Whether sweating after exercise, eating warm food or sweating slightly after soaking feet, you can achieve the effect of dispelling cold. Cold diet, often eating spicy and warm food can dispel the cold. Due to the different geographical climate, each region has its own cold-dispelling eating habits. For example, the north likes to eat warm foods with high calories such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, beef and mutton to drive away the cold; Sichuanese like spicy food; Guizhou people like hot and sour; Hunan people like to stir-fry spicy food; Others like to drink medicinal liquor to drive away the cold. Although different, their functions are to dispel cold, damp and keep warm. Hyperthermia is one of the simple, natural and effective methods to dispel cold since ancient times. Some use thermos bottles, or heated sand, stones, salt and paraffin; Some use moxa sticks to smoke the painful parts, or stick ginger slices or garlic slices on the painful parts or acupoints and then use moxa sticks; Some use traditional Chinese medicine to boil blisters and smoke; Some use various physical therapy instruments to irradiate cold compress; Some use scraping and cupping. Dispel the cold It can be said that there are many methods to dispel cold in hospitals and folk, which can alleviate and treat various diseases caused by cold and dampness to a certain extent. Soak 50 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in 250 ml of Chinese liquor (55℃). The whole pepper should be soaked for a week before use. If the pepper is put into a pulverizer and ground into powder, it can be used after soaking for 1 ~ 2 days. (Zanthoxylum bungeanum should be bought in the supermarket, with better quality. Don't buy pepper powder sold by roadside stalls to prevent counterfeiting and affect the curative effect. ) Zanthoxylum bungeanum is warm, which can disperse the middle cold, dispel the cold of six fu organs, dredge blood vessels, adjust joints and warm the waist and knees. Rub pepper wine on the painful part and rub it up and down. After wiping, you can directly smoke with green moxa sticks or put on a hot water bottle. Be careful not to burn, you can simmer through the clothes. This method has a good effect on treating low back pain, knee joint swelling and pain, scapulohumeral periarthritis and so on. There is a folk prescription for homemade cold-dispelling cotton pad: in summer, squeeze ginger into juice, soak cotton in it, squeeze it a little, don't twist it, and dry it directly in the sun until it is dry. Then wrap the cotton in cloth and sew it into a small cotton pad. In winter, where there is pain, sew a small cloth pad on the corresponding pain part of the close-fitting clothes and wear it all the time. Generally, after half a month of use, a new one is replaced. When in use, it would be better if you put a hot water bottle outside this ginger cotton pad. (Note: Small cotton pads don't have to be made in summer, but they can also be made in winter. ) Ginger is warm, which has the functions of warming meridians to dispel cold, warming stomach and stopping vomiting. This method can not only treat neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, but also treat chronic bronchitis and asthma, the most common diseases of the elderly in winter. Chronic bronchitis and asthma may be caused by kidney deficiency and kidney cold. Old people with chronic bronchitis and asthma must pay attention to keeping their backs and waist warm. You can put ginger juice on your back and waist and put a hot water bottle. You can also make a bag for the hot water bottle, which is more convenient to carry on your back or tie around your waist. Quickly dispel cold and dampness. This is the fastest method I use the most, and it is only for adults. The method is as follows: 1. Slice ginger, steam in a pot, and steam until soft. 2. Use 6-8 green moxa sticks in summer (8- 10 sticks in winter), buy a big clip in a stationery store, hold the moxa sticks, or tie the moxa sticks in a row with tape and light them. 3. Stick the steamed ginger slices on your back (as shown on the right). Light the rows of moxa sticks, keep a distance of half an inch to one inch from the ginger slices, and slowly move up and down. Usually smoked for 30 ~ 40 minutes. When you feel pain, try to stay away. At the beginning of smoking, some people will feel obvious burning sensation and pain, because the meridians are blocked, and a lot of heat cannot be distributed quickly. If the meridians behind are clear, even if the whole row of moxa sticks is close to the back, you won't feel any pain, only warmth and comfort. Take out the ginger slices after smoking. If the skin under the ginger is wet, the ginger is also wet, indicating that the body is cold and wet. For people with less cold and dampness in the body, ginger slices should be smoked with a lot of green moxa sticks for dozens of minutes, and the skin should be crisp and dry. 4. Stick the ginger slices around the lower abdomen and navel (as shown below) and smoke them up and down for 20 ~ 30 minutes. 5. Draw 10 ~ 20 times on the outside and inside of both calves, from ankle to knee, up and down, back and forth. (as shown below) 6. On the outside of both arms, pump Waiguan point up and down for 20 ~ 30 times. Generally, after one hour of whole-body moxibustion, patients will feel warm, comfortable and relaxed because of the warmth of moxibustion, and the dark gray on their faces and hands will be reduced and their faces will become brighter and more shiny due to severe cold and dampness and meridian obstruction. The method of smoking moxa sticks all over the body has obvious effect on promoting blood circulation. People with less blood in the body will feel chest tightness, palpitation and dizziness after smoking. Therefore, people who are older and have serious diseases are not suitable for smoking, especially in the back and legs. If you want to smoke, you can only smoke the lower abdomen to the navel. People with weak constitution should smoke less every time. It can only be smoked once a month for health care, and winter is the collection season. It is best not to smoke the whole body, only the abdomen. Because of the use of moxa sticks, the smoke is heavy, so it is best to treat it next to the range hood in the kitchen, so that you can finish smoking in time. Why is the body very cold, but it feels very hot? Everyone has the experience of getting angry. For example, the hot weather in summer leads to fever, and after eating the food that gets angry, the mouth and tongue are sore and the stool is dry. There are also people who are grumpy and angry, and those who have not recovered from a long illness are all "yin deficiency and excessive internal heat". Traditional Chinese medicine divides "fire" into real fire and virtual fire The treatment of excess fire is the lower method of clearing heat and reducing fire, while the treatment of deficiency fire is the tonic method. As long as it is a real fire, all kinds of drugs commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials and anti-inflammatory drugs in western medicine are symptomatic, and even eating for three days will definitely reduce the fire. But now there are fewer and fewer people who simply have real fire, and most of them are virtual fire. Huangdi Neijing said: "Those who suffer from husband fever today are all typhoid fever ..... those who suffer from cold injury are also sick with heat." It is pointed out here that a cold is the cause of fever. If the cold pathogen is excessive, what is manifested in the body is fever, which means that the virtual fire is actually caused by cold. Why does severe cold cause "fire"? As mentioned above, the direct consequence of severe cold in the body is kidney injury, which leads to kidney yang deficiency and kidney qi deficiency, leading to organ function decline and blood deficiency. Kidney belongs to water in the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine. Water irrigates and moistens the whole body. When the water in the human body is insufficient, just like the water in the earth, the body will dry. The same is true of organs. Every organ needs work and exercise. If this kind of exercise lacks water, it is easy to rub and generate heat. The most typical is the liver, which belongs to wood and needs water most. Once water is lacking, liver dryness and liver fire are very obvious. If the liver is given enough water to keep it moist all the time, it will not be dry and there will be no fire. And the head and face are also the easiest to get angry. Because the kidney governs the medullary brain, when the kidney yang is insufficient and the kidney qi is insufficient, the medullary sea will be empty, and the farthest head will be ischemic first, that is, "water shortage". The natural reaction is dry symptoms, such as dry eyes, dry mouth, dry tongue, dry throat and sore throat. In addition, the mouth, throat, nasal cavity and ears are all organs exposed to the air and are more susceptible to bacterial infection. When the blood supply to the neck and head and face decreases, the immune function here will decrease and various discomforts will occur, so the probability of suffering from rhinitis, pharyngitis, periodontitis, tonsillitis and otitis media will increase. Because there is not enough blood supply, it is difficult to cure all kinds of inflammation, and it will recur repeatedly, becoming various chronic diseases that have not healed for a long time, such as chronic rhinitis, chronic pharyngitis, chronic periodontitis and chronic otitis media. When modern people eat a large number of cold fruits and vegetables by mistake regardless of seasons, when people use air conditioners for a long time in summer, and when ladies try to wear less clothes to show their figure, a large amount of cold and dampness are quietly entering the body, and natural kidney fire is getting less and less, and virtual fire is getting bigger and bigger. At present, cold medicines for purging fire, clearing fire and reducing fire are widely used for treatment, which makes the coldness worse, the deficiency fire worse, and the more you treat it, the greater the fire. There is actually no symptomatic treatment. But if you want to get rid of cold and dampness in the body and tonify the kidney, you must use warm food. Hyperthermia, isn't this adding fuel to the fire? Indeed, people who have a virtual fire generally have "virtual failure to make up", but this situation of virtual failure to make up is only an illusion. If it is a patient with severe fire, it is still a virtual fire after general massage to dredge the meridians. I will let them soak their feet with wormwood water, apply garlic to their feet, or eat raw loach to reduce the fire. Especially after eating a few raw loaches, the virtual fire in their bodies can be completely eliminated soon. After the illusion in the body is removed, it is cold. At this time, blood and kidney are supplemented by diet therapy, and no matter how you eat, you will not get angry. When the blood is quickly replenished and the body is no longer attacked by cold, your kidney-yang fire and kidney-qi are constantly enriched. When the kidney is full of qi and blood, the body will naturally be strong, all kinds of deficiency fire will naturally subside, and all kinds of chronic inflammation will naturally be easily cured. Heavy cold and dampness in the body can easily lead to obstruction of meridians, difficulty in heat dissipation, and easy to feel sultry. Compared with the elderly, children's channels and collaterals are unobstructed and dissipate heat quickly, so children are least afraid of heat in summer and still play in the sun on a hot day. However, the meridians of the elderly are not smooth and it is not easy to sweat. If the heat can't dissipate, it will be stuffy in the body, and people will be very uncomfortable and irritable. Only when you eat cold food will you feel better. Of course, the physical dryness and heat caused by the obstruction of meridians does not only appear in the elderly. Nowadays, people are generally greedy for cold and exercise less, which will naturally slow down the speed of blood flow and easily lead to blockage of meridians. The blockage of meridians brings people all kinds of pains, as well as acne and spots on the skin. Looking around, how many people can say that they are healthy and have never had backache, leg pain and arm pain? Look at the skin of people around you. How many of them are shiny, elastic and free from spots and acne? These are all related to long-term greed.