Cold hands and feet when fever commonly appear in Chinese medicine cold wind-cold bundled surface type, while the hands and feet fever for the symptoms of yin deficiency cold, the two have different causes, symptoms and treatment.
1. Cold hands and feet are mainly due to the wind-cold evil outside the bundle of muscle surface, resulting in the body’s guarding the external yang stagnation, so the cold (cold) heavy, fever light, so there are cold hands and feet; but the yin deficiency cold yin deficiency, coupled with the feeling of the external evil drums, resulting in the relative yang exuberance, and there is a fever hands and feet of the performance of the heat of the deficiency.
2. Cold hands and feet are usually accompanied by nasal discharge, coughing up white phlegm, white tongue coating and no sweat and other symptoms, but the fever of the hands and feet fever is a small amount of sweating, dry mouth and little phlegm and tongue reddish and other heat symptoms.
3. Fever with cold hands and feet can be treated with addition and subtraction of Jing Fang Shi Tao San to relieve the surface with pungent warmth, while fever with hot hands and feet can be treated with addition and subtraction of Weiwei Lei Tang to relieve the surface and nourish yin.
When fever occurs, regardless of the accompanying symptoms, it should be consulted immediately and treated by the physician after the four diagnoses are combined and the evidence is recognized.