Body cold is mostly manifested as yin deficiency, which can be divided into the following categories according to the severity of cold pathogens: such as chills and fever, dry cough without phlegm, or blood in phlegm, dry mouth and emaciation, hot flashes and night sweats, which belong to lung yin deficiency; If manifested as abdominal pain, abdominal pain, eating cold food will be aggravated, and emaciation, overeating and hunger are mostly due to insufficient stomach yin; If you have waist and knee pain, cold hands and feet, dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess, premature gray hair, alopecia and other symptoms. Most of them are yin deficiency.
Yang deficiency leads to internal cold. Cold constitution is generally caused by yang deficiency and yang deficiency, which cannot be warmed up. Mainly manifested as chills and cold limbs. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold often have abdominal distension and diarrhea. People with liver and kidney deficiency and cold have low sexual desire, which is often manifested as dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, delayed menstruation and increased leucorrhea. Men, on the other hand, are characterized by cold sperm, nocturnal emission, impotence, premature ejaculation, chills and cold limbs. If the upper lesion is on the upper side, there will be symptoms such as lung qi deficiency and cold, easy to catch a cold, thin phlegm, cough and asthma.
Second, is foot bathing useful for people with this constitution?
People with cold constitution are usually afraid of cold. Even in summer, they will feel cold hands and feet. At the same time, when they eat cold food, they will have abdominal pain and diarrhea. Traditional Chinese medicine theory holds that people with cold constitution belong to yang deficiency, mostly spleen and kidney yang deficiency. You can soak your feet with hot water every night, or you can soak your feet with drugs such as aconite, asarum, cinnamon and cassia twig.
Soaking feet has many advantages, and only reasonable and correct soaking feet can achieve good results. According to personal physique, you can add some drugs appropriately, and the effect will be better. There are many acupoints on our feet. Soaking feet can effectively stimulate various acupoints and promote blood circulation. It can also enhance the function of human organs and improve the immunity of the body. Especially suitable for people with yang deficiency and cold constitution. Soaking feet can dispel cold, thus improving cold constitution and benefiting health.
In fact, body cold is a term of traditional Chinese medicine, which mainly refers to a person's deficiency of yin and yang. Soaking feet with hot water can promote blood circulation, relieve fatigue and improve sleep quality. To be sure, soaking feet can treat body cold. However, it should be noted that the water temperature for soaking feet should be kept at about 43 degrees Celsius, and the time for soaking feet should be kept at about half an hour. Also, we must stick to it and don't stop soaking in a day or two. It won't make any difference.