Beginning of winter has passed, and the cold winter has come. It's natural to feel chilly when the north wind blows when you go out, but some people are not only freezing outside, even in a heated room, their hands and feet can't stay warm under the quilt all night. Doctors believe that this excessive fear of cold may not only be related to the weather.
Doctors believe that excessive fear of cold may be a symptom of the disease.
From the point of view of western medicine, there are many reasons for being afraid of cold. For example, people with iron deficiency have less heme, which affects the oxygen carrying capacity of blood and leads to the disorder of tissue energy metabolism, and people will feel extremely cold because of insufficient heat generated. People with low blood pressure have insufficient peripheral blood circulation, and human tissues can't get enough oxygen and energy, and they are also afraid of cold. In addition, when the secretion of thyroid hormone in the body is insufficient, the blood circulation in the skin and other parts slows down and the heat production is insufficient. These people will react more strongly to the cold than the average person. The estrogen level in menopausal women is low, which affects the stability of nerves and blood vessels and is prone to chills in the waist, abdomen, hands and feet and the whole body.
Traditional Chinese medicine explains the fear of cold from the perspective of insufficient yang. Zong, director of the Chinese medicine department of Friendship Hospital, said that the human body is a whole with a balance of yin and yang, and it is healthy under the balance of yin and yang, but if one party declines, people will have adverse reactions. Fear of cold is actually the result of "yang deficiency leading to internal cold", which is manifested in poor ability to keep out the cold in the body. Even if you wear more than others, your hands and feet are still cold, or your abdomen is very sensitive to temperature, which is easy to have loose bowels and joint pain. Women also have symptoms such as dysmenorrhea.
This kind of problem has a lot to do with ordinary living habits. Some girls love beauty, even if they are shivering with cold, they wear very little in winter and look slim. Children love to eat cold drinks, hurting the spleen and stomach; People who are "attacked" by air-conditioning diseases in summer may hurt their yang, which will inevitably bury hidden dangers to their bodies over time. As the saying goes, "young people find a doctor, old people find someone."
-Physical exercise and food supplement are good ways to preserve yang.
For normal people, regular physical exercise is the best way to preserve yang, and walking, running and swimming in the morning can achieve good results. Besides, washing your face or rubbing your body with cold water can also exercise your cold tolerance. However, our understanding of anything should not be too one-sided. Some people take a cold bath for exercise, and if the sun is not enough, they will find a cold first. In fact, you might as well wash your face with cold water first to exercise your ability to keep out the cold, and don't wash your face with cold water at once, but step by step. Soak in hot water today and cool it a little tomorrow until you are completely used to cold water, so as to achieve the effect of exercise.
Winter is more suitable for eating warm meat, such as beef and mutton, venison, longan, etc., and it also has good results. Food supplements should also pay attention to the temperature. The weather in the north is not suitable for nourishing herbs such as ginseng. American ginseng is mild and not easy to get angry, but eating it for the first time will definitely have an impact on the body. It's best to eat one or two tablets first, and then gradually increase it to the right amount according to your body's reaction. At the same time, the food should be eaten while it is hot, and you should not be greedy for cold food or eat cold rice or cold dishes.
Patients who want to make up for the deficiency of yang by taking tonic medicine must take the medicine under the guidance of a doctor. Every patient has different sources of yang deficiency and needs to tonify the kidney for different reasons. If the spleen and stomach are not good, it is necessary to strengthen the spleen and eat tonics indiscriminately, which is easy to cause symptoms such as getting angry. It's bad for your health, on the contrary. In addition, dressing appropriately is also one of the elements to preserve yang.