Chinese medicine believes that: nine out of ten women have body colds, and most women’s diseases are related to body colds. Cold can cause poor blood circulation and poor skin condition. Cold can directly harm the reproductive system, leading to menstrual disorders and infertility; it may also cause gastritis, joint pain, and diarrhea.
Why do women have body colds?
1. Body weakness
Overwork, physical and mental exhaustion can speed up the body consumption, coupled with insufficient exercise, resulting in body weakness. The main manifestations are generalized weakness, poor sleep quality, and indigestion, accompanied by poor appetite, short temper, memory loss, and so on. Due to the weakness of the body and the internal cold breeding, which in turn caused the body to be cold.
2. Irrational diet
A considerable portion of women favor fruits and cold drinks, so much so that they eat fruits as meals. However, many fruits are cold, such as watermelon, lychee, pears, etc., uncontrolled eating internal cold can take advantage of the weakness.
3. Wear less
Often wear a navel dress or ultra-short skirt, staying in a low-temperature air-conditioned room will cause a cold body.
4. Stay up late or not enough sleep
Often staying up late, and sleeping less than 6 hours a day easy to cause yin and yang deficiency, yang deficiency and promote a body cold.
How to identify the body has no cold?
If there is cold in the body women will be afraid of cold, manifested in frequent urination at night, lumbar and knee pain, lower limb pain and cold, cold pain in the abdomen, hands and feet not warm, and so on. Cold condensation can affect the operation of qi and blood, inducing a variety of pain, manifested as joint pain, headache, lumbar and leg pain, menstrual cramps and pain in the lower abdomen, etc., and the pain is aggravated when cold.
How to warm up the body?
1. Sunbathing
Sunbathing is the simplest way to activate their yang energy and play the effect of cold, especially sunbathing back, head, and legs. The head is a collection of Yang Qi, which can be adjusted to smooth the blood so that the whole body meridians smooth. The back is where the “Dumai” vein circulates, the main body of yang, but also the solar bladder meridian circulation, which can fight against the invasion of foreign evil. Feet and legs are part of the yin sinking, cold hands, and feet and calves suggest that moisture is too heavy, and may wish to sunbathe more.
2. Moderate exercise
Exercise can promote the smooth running of blood and qi, improve blood circulation throughout the body, and speed up the rate of metabolism so that the whole body is warm and comfortable. Cold and weak people at least 3 times a week aerobic exercise, each time up to 30 minutes, such as yoga, cycling, jogging, and walking, etc., can strengthen the body and relieve bad moods but also play a smooth qi and blood efficacy, enhance their immunity.
Warm tips
Every night before going to bed with a 40℃ warm water foot soak, you can add the right amount of Chinese medicine in the water, such as wormwood, which can improve blood circulation, dredge the whole body meridians, and harmonize qi and blood. As the body’s cold is centered in the small abdomen, so you should push and knead the abdomen more often, and pay attention to the small abdomen to keep warm when you go to bed, you can help eliminate the body’s cold.