In summer, people with fever in their hands and feet are greatly relieved in winter; People with cold hands and feet at ordinary times not only suffer in winter, but also put their cold hands on others, and they are too cold to hide from others.
Why do some people have cold hands and feet and no temperature in winter?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by blood deficiency and cold coagulation.
When people are in insufficient blood gas at ordinary times, the blood flow is slow and they can't fill the blood vessels. When he encounters cold winter, his blood circulation is greatly affected. Because blood can circulate qi, yang can't reach his limbs due to blood deficiency, and his hands and feet will be cold.
Therefore, it is necessary to nourish blood and dredge veins, warm meridians and dispel cold.
Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases Danggui Sini Decoction has the effects of nourishing blood, dredging veins, warming meridians and dispelling cold. Let's have a look.
Danggui Sini Decoction: Danggui Guizhi Shaoyao Asarum Caotong Jujube Fried Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch
Angelica sinensis is pungent and sweet, which can promote blood circulation and replenish blood. With sufficient qi and blood, the yang will move, and the limbs will be warmed by the yang, so they will not be afraid of cold in winter.
Blood circulates in the pulse, which is the fu-organ of blood, and the heart governs blood. Pulse is weak, insufficient blood gas can't reach his limbs, and his hands and feet are cold. Zhongjing uses Angelica to help him.
Ramulus Cinnamomi, branches, such as human limbs. It can warm and dredge meridians, help yang to transform qi, warm and dredge meridians, help yang to run qi and blood, reach limbs directly, warm limbs and dispel cold.
In addition, cassia twig can induce sweating and relieve exterior syndrome, which is used for cold and cold.
Paeonia lactiflora is bitter and can nourish blood and soften liver. Liver governing muscle, storing blood, Paeonia lactiflora softening liver, promoting blood circulation.
Use angelica to tonify deficiency and nourish blood, angelica to enrich blood and peony to nourish blood to make blood run soft and smooth.
There is also cassia twig, one for activating yang, the other for astringing yin, harmonizing ying and Wei, nourishing blood and activating collaterals.
Asarum, pungent and warm, is slender, which can make the human body have the functions of dredging tendons and veins, being good at escaping and dispelling cold, dispersing yin cold outside, dispersing yin cold inside, warming meridians and dredging veins.
Plus cassia twig, warming hands and feet is more powerful.
Cao Tong, with holes in the middle, such as tendons and veins, is good at dredging, dredging meridians, activating qi and promoting blood circulation.
Jujube nourishes blood and calms the nerves, and Radix Glycyrrhizae preparata can strengthen the spleen, invigorate qi and nourish blood, which can help Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Paeoniae Alba to replenish blood and help Ramulus Cinnamomi and Asari to activate yang.
Summary: Angelica supplements blood and nourishes blood.
Guizhi ascending yang and transforming qi, reaching all limbs.
Asarum Xin San Wen Tong, invigorating the true yang.
Promote grass to benefit and dredge meridians.
Jujube nourishes blood and calms the nerves, and roasted licorice nourishes qi and strengthens the spleen.
Warming yang and dispelling cold are used together, nourishing blood and dredging veins are treated together, and cold hands and feet are relieved. Traditional Chinese medicine says that cold hands and feet are four opposites, and this recipe uses Angelica sinensis, hence the name Angelica Sini Decoction, which can be taken orally and soaked in feet.