Why is the shoulder neck problem more serious in winter? There are 3 ways to ease the pain

Family doctor online on November 19, 2018

Entering winter, the skin texture of the human body began to relax, cold air is more likely to invade the body, resulting in a series of diseases. At this time, the north has already been snow fly, although yangcheng is sunny, but because of the temperature difference between morning and night, should pay attention to health care.

In winter, many people will have problems such as colds, coughs, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, etc., and the aggravation of old problems of unknown reasons. Professor Edwin van der - fai of the second middle school hospital of guangdong province pointed out that in winter, when main seal reservoirs, natural yangqi seals below the surface, and less yangqi in the surface presents cold. Heaven and human correspondingly, the human body Yang qi is also relatively sealed in the body, body surface Yang qi relative insufficient.

People with plain body Yang deficiency are vulnerable to the outside wind and cold. "wind, cold, wet, three air complex, and combined to become bi".

"If you don't work, you can't cure the disease." fan pointed out that curing disease is better than preventing disease. Cold weather will naturally lead to the convergence of Yang qi and the weakened circulation of qi and blood.

Professor fan suggested that in daily life, people can use traditional Chinese medicine methods such as nourishing food and soaking their feet to warm up Yang qi and strengthen the body.

Professor fan recommended supplements

1. Angelica ginger and mutton soup

Ingredients: 20g angelica, 20g ginger, 1000g mutton, 1 carrot, salt, chicken essence.

How to do it: simmer over medium heat for 2 to 3 hours.

Efficacy: repair deficiency in temperature and relieve pain. Used for spleen-stomach deficiency and cold, acute abdominal pain, flank pain, dysmenorrhea, or dysmenorrhea.

2. Dried ginger pig's foot soup with aconite

Ingredients: 20 g of aconite, 20 g of dried ginger, 500 g of pig's feet, suitable amount of chicken essence with salt.

How to do it: first cook dried ginger for 2 hours, then put pig feet together and cook for 2 hours.

Efficacy: enrich qi and fill deficiency, warm under the temperature. It is more suitable for lumbar and knee acerbity soft, drowsiness and fatigue, kidney deficiency and impotence, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.

Professor fan recommended traditional Chinese medicine foot formula

1. Lumbar and knee pain and weakness

Medicinal materials: cinnamon 50g, dogwood 50g, ginger 50g, onion 50g, pepper 80g

Usage: with sand cloth wrapped boiled for 10 minutes, add hot water, water temperature dropped to 40 ℃ or so, with a foot bath soak for 30 minutes, once a day.

2. After apoplexy, hand and foot constriction: tendons, permeable and red flower, 10g each

Usage: add the medicine to 5kg water, boil for 10 minutes, then add the warm water, soak the feet for 30 minutes in the foot bath, 1-2 times a day, 1 month is 1 course of treatment.

The expert reminds when foot bath

(1) the medicine should be added into hot water after frying to prevent scald skin. The temperature should be between 42 and 45 degrees Celsius, and the time should be half an hour.

(2) in order to keep water temperature constant, wooden bucket is preferred. And the chemical composition in metal basin is not stable, do not recommend to use.

(3) the water amount of soak feet cannot be too little, so it is better to soak the lower leg, and the water level reaches the foot three li point below the knee.

(4) should not bubble foot within half an hour after a meal, it can affect the supply of blood in the stomach and make people malnourished in the long run.

(5) do not sweat much when soaking your feet, and do not sweat too much when soaking your feet.

(6) people who should not soak their feet: children, some acute infectious diseases, hemorrhagic diseases, and patients with frostbite should not burn their feet; Some patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should choose according to the doctor's advice.