What causes cold extremities

Cold limbs, from the Chinese medicine analysis of its causes are mainly divided into two aspects of deficiency and solid, the main deficiency is spleen and kidney yang deficiency (deficiency of yang qi in the spleen and kidneys), and the main solid is yang qi stagnation. 1. The spleen is the master of the muscles of the limbs. Spleen yang is the basic qi that maintains the spleen’s functions of transporting and transforming water and dampness, elevating and clearing as well as regulating blood. Kidney yang is the root of all yang in the body. Spleen and kidney yang deficiency, the whole body organs function decline, there will be cold limbs, accompanied by cold pain in the waist and knees or lower abdomen, poor appetite (poor appetite), yellowish color (yellow and lusterless), urination is not, the face of the swollen limbs performance. 2. Yang qi stagnation is mainly related to liver qi stagnation (poor transportation of qi and blood in the liver, emotional and emotional depression) and qi dysfunction (poor operation of gases in the body). Yang qi can not reach the end of the limbs, loss of warmth, you can appear cold hands and feet symptoms, often accompanied by emotional upset (emotional upset), upset and insomnia, dry mouth and bitter, easy to sweat symptoms. Normally, we should do more exercise, enhance physical fitness, maintain a relaxed mood, if accompanied by underlying diseases, cold extremities continue to be unrelieved, to actively seek medical treatment by a professional physician.