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In winter, more people get effect by cold hands and feet, especially female,
Today we are talking about cold hands and feet in general health conditions, not include caused by catching a cold or vascular thrombosis.
We usually think cold hands and feet because of poor circulation, lack of blood, the blood can’t reach to the limbs. Anemia, during the period, abnormal muscle contractions, low blood pressure, a weak heart, sympathetic dysfunction or reduced basal metabolic rate, such as hypothyroidism and other secretory diseases can lead to have cold hands and feet.
In Chinese medicine, except for the diagnosis of Blood and Qi deficiency which usually have a thin and weak pulse, pale tongue, pale complexion, easy catch a cold, easy feel tired.
The other common diagnosis is Yang deficiency, Yang Qi warm up the body, move the blood, in this case, people feel cold all the time, no matter in the winter or summer, when you touch their hands and feet, there are cold. This type of person may have other symptoms such as shortness of breath, wheeze hold back, diarrhea, abdomen bilges, digestion issue, sterile, infertility.
If a person always feeling the hands and feet are cold, but when you touch it, they are not cold, it can consider as Yang Qi stagnation, the cold feeling only on lower the elbow or lower the knees.
The easiest way to improve is to take a foot bath! Don’t wait, do it start from today.
Suggested herbal cuisines for Yang deficiency, blood and qi deficiency for this winter:
Angelica black chicken soup
Ingredients:
Angelica当归 20g
Notoginseng root 三七 8g
Black chicken 250g
Salt 5g
Oyster sauce 5g
Process:1, Clean the herbs, slice the angelica, and smash the pseudo-ginseng;
2, Clean the black chicken, into boiling water for a minute, rinse in the cold water;
3, Add enough water to cover all the ingredients, boil it, turn to very low heat cook for about 2 hours;
4, Add salt and oyster sauce, or little sugar.
Efficacy: Tonifying blood and qi, improve blood circulation remove blood stasis and relieve the pain; good effect for such as arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia conditions.
Eucommia bark beef soup
Ingredients:
Eucommia bark杜仲 20g
Wolfberry 15g
Beef 500g
Cooking wine 2tsb
Ginger 3 pcs
Green Onion little
Salt little
Process:1, Clean all the ingredients, Beef in the boiling water for a minute;
2, Main ingredients into the pot, add water, cook it to boil, then turn to low heat for hours, till the beef thoroughly cooked;
3, Add salt and green onion.
Efficacy: Tonifying the Liver and Kidney, strengthen the tendons and bones, lower the blood pressure, improve the hearing and sights. Great for tinnitus, deafness, and weakness of the lower back and knees. due to high blood pressure and Kidney deficiency.
Angelica Cistanche stew lamb
Ingredients
Walnut 核桃仁 15g
Cistanche 肉苁蓉 15g
Cinnamomi 桂枝 15g
Black date 黑枣 6pcs
Angelica 当归 10g
Chinese Yam 山药 25g
Lamb 250g
Ginger 3pcs
Rice wine
Salt
Process:1, Clean the Lamb, chop it up, put in the boiling water for a minute, rinse it in cold water;
2, All the herbs on the bottom of the pot, Lamb on the top, add Rice wine, water cover all the ingredients;
3, High heat boil it, turn to low heat cook for about 40 minutes, add salt
Efficacy: Nourishing kidney and strengthening yang, has a therapeutic effect on improving kidney deficiency and male reproductive diseasesPsoralea fruit mutton soup
Ingredients
Psoralea fruit 补骨脂 20g
Cordyceps Sinensis 冬虫夏草 20g
Yam 山药 30g
Wolfberry 15g
Lamb 750g
Ginger 4pcs
Honey date 4pcs
Salt
Process:1, Clean the Lamb, chop it up, put in the boiling water for a minute, rinse it in cold water;
2, All the ingredients into the pot, add water, high heat boil it, then turn to low heat cook for about 3 hours
Efficacy: Tonifying Kidney and Liver, benefit essence, great for female hyposexuality or Malesemenis scarce impotence premature ejaculation
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