Many people have cold hands and feet, especially in cold-weather months. Adopt some of these habits to get your blood moving.

Causes of Cold Feet and Hands

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine（TCM）, the main reason for cold hands and feet is the lack of yang qi in the body.Cold feet, hands and limbs happen when yin and yang energies cannot connect in the body. Yang energy moves energy to the limbs, while yin conveys energy to the organs. These two energies link up inside the human body, but when they do not, cold extremities happen.

Nourishing yang and promoting blood circulation

Yang is the creative, transformative energy that can warm and activate the body. There are various reasons why our yang energy becomes depleted: long exposure to cold, over-eating cold food and drink, over-working exceeding your body’s ability to recover in the available time, and being in chronic stress state and suffering emotions like fear, and women may cause the situation of irregular period.

To relieve the problem, incorporate the following foods or Chinese Medicine:

You should eat more foods that nourish yang qi and activate qi and blood, such as mutton, beef, codonopsis, angelica, red dates, yam, etc.They can improve your physical condition.

In addition, people with cold hands and feet should pay attention to keep warm. A good way to relieve cold hand and feet is to soak your feet in hot water before going to bed,or put a hot water bottle next to you while sleeping.

Methods like chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, scraping, aerobic exercise, foot soaks, and nourishing foods can help relieve the problem. Regular aerobic exercise promotes blood circulation and metabolism, so it can relieve cold limbs. Jogging, tai chi and rope skipping are good exercises. Heavy exertion should be avoided since heavy sweating results in “leaking” of yang energy and aggravates the problem of chilled extremities.  #TCM #acupuncture #acupuncturedubai #herbalmedicine