Ten solutions for girls' cold hands and feet

Cold hands and feet can cause women to have scanty menstruation, irregular menstruation, and even infertility; women are more likely to have cold hands and feet during special physiological periods such as menstruation, pregnancy, and delivery due to physical weakness. If it is not prevented in time, it will lead to poor spirits and physical chills. Long-term cold hands and feet may also cause frostbite in winter. It is also related to diseases such as rheumatism and stomach problems.

Strategy 1: Exercise and shake your hands frequently

It is recommended that female friends get up early in the morning and do some exercise. Brisk walking is the best choice. Walk forward with big strides at a speed faster than walking but slower than running, and swing your hands. Walk for 30 minutes to promote the circulation of Qi and blood. Your whole body will feel warm. Because blood circulation and metabolism are accelerated early in the morning, you will be full of energy all day and will not easily feel cold. After working for 40 minutes, it is best to stand up and walk around or step on the floor. Moving your fingers and toes from time to time while working can help blood circulation.

Strategy 2: Take more vitamin E

Vitamin E can dilate peripheral blood vessels and is very helpful for smooth peripheral blood circulation. However, the effect of vitamin E is slow and must be continued for 3 months to be effective. In addition, 210-250 IU must be taken every day to be sufficient.

Strategy 3: Eat more foods containing niacin

Niacinic acid is very helpful in stabilizing the nervous and circulatory systems. It can also improve nervous tension, nervous diarrhea, dermatitis, dilate peripheral blood vessels, and improve cold hands and feet. If taken in large quantities, it will cause the face to turn red and hot. Niacin is found in abundance in animal liver, eggs, milk, cheese, brown rice, whole wheat products, sesame seeds, mushrooms, peanuts, mung beans, and coffee. Vitamins B1, B2, and B6 can help the synthesis of niacin acid. If you want to promote peripheral vasodilation, you can supplement 30-60 mg of vitamin B group every day.

Tip 4: Eat more nuts and carrots

Daily dietary supplements can warm up the body, such as nuts such as walnut kernels, sesame seeds, pine nuts, etc.; vegetables such as leeks, carrots, cabbage, spinach, etc.; fruits such as apricots, peaches, papaya, etc., are all the best dietary choices. Other foods such as beef, mutton, seafood, four-star meat, glutinous rice, brown rice, soybeans, tofu, sesame seeds, brown sugar, etc. are all warm foods and are the ingredients that people with cold hands and feet should choose more. It is important to remind people that people who are prone to cold hands and feet should avoid eating raw or cold food, ice cream or drinking cold drinks all year round.

Tip 5: Develop a habit of eating spicy food

Spices such as chili, pepper, mustard, garlic, onion, curry, etc. can promote blood circulation. You can eat them with your daily diet. For example, add some chili sauce when eating fried noodles or fried rice noodles; add more pepper when drinking soup; when eating dumplings, have a bowl of hot and sour soup, and you will invisibly eat a lot of spices.

Tip 6: Eat warming and nourishing foods regularly

Such as ginseng tea, ginger duck, longan tea, black sesame, sweet glutinous rice balls, etc., eating them in winter can not only warm the body, but also have the effect of replenishing the body, and also can prevent cold hands and feet. There are many Chinese medicines that can improve and prevent cold hands and feet, such as ginseng, codonopsis, angelica, salvia miltiorrhiza, Astragalus membranaceus, deer antler, rabbit silk seed, Morinda officinalis, cinnamon, Cistanche deserticola, Curculigo orchioides, cassia twig, ephedra, dried ginger, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, pepper, nutmeg, and cardamom. Whether it is for making tea, boiling, or adding to dishes, just eat more of them.

Tip 7: Don’t get too hungry

Don't be picky about food or lose weight excessively. Allow your body to store a moderate amount of fat to help maintain body temperature. If you know in advance that you will not be able to eat on time today due to busy work, you can prepare some biscuits, bread, or ginseng tea to replenish calories in time.

Tip 8: Taking Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine also has fixed prescriptions to treat cold hands and feet, such as Shiquan Dabu Decoction, Bazhen Decoction, Sijunzi Decoction, Siwu Decoction, Lizhong Decoction, Guiqi Jianzhong Decoction, Fuzi Lizhong Decoction, Guizhi Decoction, Gegen Decoction, Mahuang Decoction, Danggui Sini Decoction, Shenqi Pills, Yougui Pills, etc. These Chinese medicines are usually more suitable for people with weak and cold constitutions. If you are not sure, you can also ask a Chinese medicine practitioner to prescribe them.

Tip 9: Keep warm

Don't wear less warm clothes just because you want to look beautiful or are afraid of being laughed at for wearing too many clothes. All kinds of warming measures, such as coats, woolen hats, gloves, scarves, masks, hygienic clothes, socks, etc., should be worn when the weather is cold. Before taking off your extra outer clothes, make sure the weather has warmed up. Do not take off your warm clothing immediately just because you are irritable, nervous, have hot flashes, or feel hot after activity. Also, don't wear clothes that are too tight, as they can restrict blood circulation. Before going to bed at night, remember to put on warm wool socks to protect your feet from the cold. Please note that if your feet lose temperature, it will be difficult to fall asleep.

Tip 10: Essential oil bath

When you have time, take more baths and add ginger or essential oils such as chamomile, basil, cinnamon, rosemary, chili bath additives, etc. to the hot water, all of which can promote blood circulation and warm the body. When taking a bath, you can use cold and hot water alternately to rinse your hands and feet, thereby achieving the purpose of unblocking blood circulation by causing the blood vessels to contract between cold and hot. Soaking your hands and feet in hot water before going to bed can also promote peripheral blood circulation and help you fall asleep. Don’t forget to dry your feet with a towel immediately after soaking and put on warm socks as soon as possible.