Cold hands and feet? Is this related to heart disease?

  It is very common for some people to always feel cold hands and feet in winter. This is mainly because the temperature of the natural world decreases and yang energy is insufficient, while the body’s own yang energy will also be insufficient and the body shows yang deficiency.  In addition, because of the cold weather, the human body vasoconstriction, blood reflux ability will be weakened, making the hands and feet, especially the fingertips part of the blood circulation is not good, which is often said to be “nerve endings poor circulation”, and lead to the hands and feet always feel cold. Such a situation generally occurs in women, especially in middle-aged women more common, brain workers are more likely to have cold hands and feet than manual workers, in healthy young men rarely appear.  Cold can cause poor blood circulation throughout the body or in the local area, or impaired blood circulation at the end of the limbs, which can lead to cold hands and feet. Frequent and prolonged cold hands and feet can be called “cold-cold syndrome”. According to Chinese medicine theory, this is a reaction to qi deficiency, qi stagnation and yang deficiency. During special physiological periods such as menstruation, pregnancy and childbirth, women are more likely to have cold hands and feet due to physical deficiency. If not prevented in time, it can lead to poor mental and physical reactions of coldness, and in serious cases, varicose veins in the lower limbs.  It can be seen that cold hands and feet have little to do with the heart, but this possibility is not excluded. Because heart patients, due to insufficient blood supply to the heart resulting in poor blood circulation throughout the body, is the cause of cold hands and feet.  So how do you usually relieve cold hands and feet?  1, eat American ginseng. This is a good medicine to replenish the qi, calm and not dry. You can drink it alone in water.  2, eat sesame, peanuts. Rich in vitamin E and a variety of nutrients, can help the absorption of vitamin B, strengthen the ability of the nerves against cold. Vitamin E also has the role of vasodilatation, can strengthen the blood circulation of the end of the limbs.  3, eat onions, peppers. Foods that can help the body produce heat and promote blood circulation.  4, supplement iron. Winter season, many people will feel cold hands and feet, the common reason is the blood meandering. Because people are constant temperature animals, if the body temperature drops due to the cold outside, the body’s nervous system will issue instructions to make the hands and feet microscopic blood vessel contraction, forcing the blood to meander to the more important internal organs. Since women have a lower body temperature than men, there are more women with cold hands and feet. In addition, the cause of cold hands and feet is due to a lack of iron in the body.  Supplemental iron to eat more iron-rich food, such as fish, poultry, lean meat, beans and green vegetables; also appropriate to speak of eating fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C, because vitamin C can promote the body’s ability to absorb iron.  5, other measures: usually more hot water soaking feet, both to warm the body, but also to relieve fatigue nerves.  Emotional relaxation: people a nervous body will produce special reactions, blood will be from the limbs to the brain and internal organs for emergency purposes, hands and feet will be cold. Therefore, you should try to keep your emotions relaxed.