Chinese medicine believes that hand heat is mostly related to yin deficiency, and clinical identification of yin or yang deficiency should be combined with the patient’s other accompanying symptoms to make a comprehensive judgment.
1. Yin deficiency: Chinese medicine believes that the normal human body is in a state of balance between yin and yang, when the body has a deficiency of yin, the yang will be relatively hyperactive, resulting in a state of yin deficiency and hyperactivity. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, “if the yang wins, then the heat”, patients with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang are often hot, such as heat in the hands and feet and heart, the heart of the heat (irritability and sultriness) and other manifestations, therefore, hand heat is mostly related to yin deficiency.
Hand heat caused by yin deficiency can also be accompanied by hot flashes and night sweats (sweating abnormally after going to sleep and stop sweating after waking up), five heart heat (heat in the heart of the two hands and two feet, and self-consciousness of the heart and chest), dry mouth and insomnia and other symptoms.
2. Yang deficiency: Chinese medicine believes that yang qi has the function of promoting warmth, when yang qi deficiency, the body loses warmth will show the limbs are not warm, cold skin and other manifestations, in addition to yang deficiency of the patient can also be accompanied by fatigue (mental exhaustion, physical weakness), cold and other symptoms.
Hand heat patients, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital, in the professional physician to help guide the treatment.