1. Disease factors
People with excessive mental pressure, over sensitivity, over worry and uneasiness are also high risk groups of hand foot cold.
2. Hormonal changes caused by menstruation and fertility
Among the people with cold hands and feet symptoms, women accounted for the vast majority. This is the hormone changes through the impact of the nervous system, leading to subcutaneous vasoconstriction and blood flow reduction, leading to chills.
3. Less wear
Of course, cold hands and feet are not all caused by physical fitness and diseases. Even in the cold winter, many women who love beauty still have short skirts and shorts. If they wear less, they will naturally feel cold. Therefore, the women who wear less have cold hands and feet. First of all, they have to reflect on whether they wear too little.
4. Iron deficiency
Studies have shown that people with low cold tolerance have insufficient iron content in their blood and are often accompanied by a decrease in plasma thyroxine. Women's iron deficiency mainly comes from menstruation. Iron deficiency, the human body due to less heme, affect the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood, resulting in tissue energy metabolism disorders, lack of heat, so the human body will be chilly.
5. Or cardiac dysfunction
Cold hands and feet have a lot to do with heart function, because blood is sent out by the heart and carries oxygen to all parts of the body. Only after sugar is oxidized can it generate heat energy and warm hands and feet. Once the heart function is decreased, it will affect the blood circulation, resulting in cold hands and feet. For example, heart failure can lead to a significant reduction in blood supply in the peripheral parts of the body, resulting in a decrease in peripheral temperature.
6. Poor peripheral circulation
Cold hands and feet in winter is a normal physiological phenomenon, because lower temperature will make blood vessels constrict, blood flow ability is weakened, so that the blood circulation of hands and feet, especially fingertips, toes and other parts is not smooth, peripheral nerve circulation is not good.
Under normal circumstances, wearing more clothes, eating warm food and moving more can promote backflow and alleviate the problem of cold hands and feet. However, it is more difficult to warm the limbs in this way for people with weak ability of blood vessel return and poor peripheral circulation.
7. Yang deficiency constitution
Most people with cold hands and feet are caused by Yang deficiency constitution. If the hands and feet still feel cold after adding warm clothes, we should pay attention to whether there is a Constitution called "Yang Deficiency" in traditional Chinese medicine. Yang deficiency is also known as deficiency cold. As the name suggests, it refers to the deficiency of Yang Qi in the human body, mostly due to the deficiency of Yang in the spleen and kidney.
Yang Qi is the foundation of life, and warm body is one of its important functions. If Yang Qi is not enough to reach the extremities, such as hands and feet, there will be chills and cold hands and feet. Therefore, an important way to relieve the cold hands and feet is to recuperate the body and replenish Yang Qi.
8. Deficiency of both qi and blood, stagnation of Spleen Yang and stagnation of liver Qi
In addition to Yang deficiency, according to different symptoms, TCM believes that cold hands and feet may also be caused by some deficiency and solid diseases.
Experts say that in terms of deficiency, deficiency of both qi and blood, deficiency of Spleen Yang and deficiency of spleen and kidney yang can cause cold hands and feet, regardless of seasons and mood. In the aspect of excess, it may be that feeling cold evil causes Qi and blood stasis and liver qi stagnation. The former refers to cold limbs, blue and purple color, and even pain when it is serious. The latter refers to the usual mood instability, depression occurs when the hands and feet are not warm, after the mood subsides, symptoms can disappear.
How to recuperate women's cold hands and feet?
1. Eat American ginseng
This is a kind of good medicine for Invigorating Qi. It is peaceful in nature and tonifying without dryness. You can drink it alone, especially for American ginseng at work.
2. Do exercise
If you eat more and move less, it's easy to store excess fat in your body. At this time, you can do more exercise, which can not only consume too much fat, but also strengthen blood circulation and make your body warm.
3. Don't be too hungry
Don't overeat and lose weight excessively, let the body store some proper amount of fat, which can help maintain body temperature. If you know in advance that you can't eat on time due to busy work today, you can prepare some biscuits, bread, or ginseng tea to replenish calories in time.
4. Take a bath before going to bed
Before going to bed with hot water local bubble hands, feet, not only can promote the circulation of vascular endings, but also help sleep. May wish to use a bucket filled with hot water, rice wine and ginger (hot water and rice wine ratio 1:1), used to soak feet, help to improve the phenomenon of women afraid of cold. But after soaking and drying, you should immediately put on cotton socks to keep warm. You can also wear them when you sleep.
5. Finger massage
Zhiyin and Yongquan can be used for finger pressing. Zhiyin is located on the outside of the growth place of the fifth toe nail. Yongquan is in the center of the sole near the toe. When the toes are all bent, it is in the center of the herringbone wrinkles formed by the sole of the foot. Knead each toe so that it feels warm. You might as well add some lotion or baby oil to promote blood circulation and tender hands and feet.
6. Taking traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine also has fixed prescriptions to treat cold hands and feet, such as Shiquan Dabu decoction, Bazhen decoction, Sijunzi Decoction, Siwu Decoction, Lizhong decoction, Guiqi Jianzhong Decoction, Fuzi Lizhong decoction, Guizhi Decoction, Gegen decoction, Mahuang Decoction, Danggui Sini Decoction, Shenqi Pill, Yougui Pill, etc. These traditional Chinese medicines are usually more suitable for people with deficiency cold constitution. If you are not sure, you can ask a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to prescribe them.
7. Drink honey
Taking the right amount of honey every day can supplement various elements needed by the human body and enhance the body's immunity. You can choose to nourish and regulate the secretion of honey, such as motherwort honey, longan honey, jujube honey, Baihua honey, etc. It's best to buy fresh pure honey from the bee farms you know. Most of the honey sold on the market has been processed and can't be taken for a long time.
8. Keep warm
Don't wear less warm clothes because you love beauty or are afraid of being laughed at by others. All kinds of warm keeping measures, such as coats, fur hats, gloves, scarves, masks, sanitary clothes and socks, should be worn completely when the weather is cold. Before taking off the added coat, make sure the weather is hot. Don't take off the warm clothes immediately because you are upset, nervous, hot, or feel hot after activities.
Don't wear too tight clothes, too tight clothes will hinder blood circulation. Before going to bed at night, remember to put on warm socks to help your feet keep cold. Pay attention that if your feet lose temperature, it's not easy to fall asleep
9. Essential oil bath
When you have time, you can take more baths, and add ginger or chamomile, basil, cinnamon, rosemary and other essential oils, hot pepper bath agent in hot water, all of which can promote blood circulation and warm the body.
When taking a bath, the hands and feet can be rinsed alternately with cold water and hot water, and the blood flow can be unblocked by the scaling of blood vessels between cold and hot. Before going to bed with hot water bubble hands and feet, can also promote peripheral blood circulation, help sleep. Don't forget to dry your feet immediately with a towel and put on warm socks as soon as possible.