Why is it getting colder and colder to sleep at night? Chinese medicine tells you what to do

December 13, 2016 taizhou evening news

Now the day is gradually cold, many people sleep at night feet cold, even if the warm measures, is still the more sleep more cold.

What reason is cold of sleeping foot bring about then, whether to have ameliorative method? The reporter consulted Chen shunzhong, director of the classics department of traditional Chinese medicine in the city hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, and asked him to answer questions for the public.

Chen Shunzhong said, from the objective phenomenon, winter cold feet is caused by the temperature drops, the body feel the cold stimulation, the pores of the skin reaction can make blood capillary contraction, limb blood stream is slow, especially the blood circulation of extremity, easy to cause cold feet, under normal circumstances, the through put on more clothes, eat the food of warm and increase activity can promote the backflow, can alleviate the problem of cold feet.

However, it is difficult to warm the limbs of people with weak vascular reflux ability and poor peripheral circulation through the above methods. To find out what causes poor circulation of blood vessels, some people can improve their symptoms by eliminating or treating underlying diseases.

"In clinical practice, there is a large number of people, especially women, without any basic diseases, and it is difficult to find the cause of poor circulation of vascular endings."

Chen shunzhong said, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, cold hands and feet is known as "hand and foot cold", due to the lack of Yang qi or Yang yu yu, Yang qi bi obstruction caused by the body at night Yang qi inside the collection of hidden, hand and foot cold is more obvious, traditional Chinese medicine to take warm Yang, tongyang, jieyu and other methods often have better curative effect.

Common prescription such as angelica four inverse soup, shiquan darbu soup, eight zhen soup, lizhong soup, guiqi jianzhong soup, fuzi lizhong soup, guizhi soup, kudzu root soup, yougui pills and so on. Chinese medicine doctors are usually asked to make prescriptions according to the specific situation after diagnosis and syndrome differentiation.

Chen shunzhong reminds, notice to keep warm even at ordinary times avoid cold, increase dress and shoe socks in time, go out should wear glove, do not go out early in the morning activity. Winter should undertake proper exercise, but do not need too intense motion, can walk, jog, climb stair, practice 8 duan jin to wait, increase the mobile quantity of upper and lower limbs.

Diet can eat more warm tonic food, such as mutton, beef, dog, ginger duck, longan tea, black sesame, sweet dumplings and so on.

Part of the crowd emotional depression, mental pressure is too large, will also lead to cold hands and feet, to pay attention to smooth emotions, relieve pressure, jieyu tongyang, in order to warm hands and feet.

Additional, bubble foot also is to alleviate cold of hand and foot a very effective way, conduce to stimulative ending blood circulates, wen jing disperses cold tongluo. Soak your ankles in hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius every night for 15 to 20 minutes, while kneading each toe with your hands.