How to change cold and damp constitution

Most people with cold and damp constitution are not born with it, but are acquired, and are mostly seen in female friends. Since women's bodies are inherently more yin, they are more likely to suffer from cold and damp constitutions. Generally, the symptoms of cold and damp constitution are not obvious in summer, but they will appear in autumn and winter, mostly manifested in cold hands and feet and insomnia at night. So how can we change the cold and damp constitution of female friends?

Definition of damp-cold constitution: Traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that the human body is a balanced organic whole, and the root cause of physical weakness is the imbalance of yin and yang. The nature of a cold body is an excess of Yin energy inside the body, which leads to an imbalance of Yin and Yang. Specific manifestations: sagging of internal organs, weakened digestion and absorption of nutrients, resulting in reduced absorption of heat by the body and a cold body. If you don't drink water often, you won't feel thirsty. You often feel weak and easily fatigued. Your face is pale and your lips are pale. You are afraid of cold and wind, and have cold hands and feet. You like to drink hot drinks and eat hot food. You often have diarrhea and light-colored urination. Your menstruation is often late, and there are many blood clots. Your tongue is light red.

1. Sufficient blood is the key to eliminating cold and dampness. Only when there is sufficient blood in the body and the kidney qi is sufficient, the blood circulation can be guaranteed and the whole body will feel warm and comfortable. Cold and dampness have no foothold in the face of sufficient blood and freely flowing blood. Without cold and dampness, there will be no pain here and there, and no spots, acne, or ringworm.

2. The whole body feels warm after exercise. People who exercise regularly, do physical labor and do housework often feel a lot of heat in their bodies. This is because exercise generates heat, which helps dispel cold and dampness. However, if you only focus on exercise but your body does not have enough blood, you will feel tired after exercise, your resistance will decrease, cold and dampness will take advantage of the opportunity to invade, and your body will still be weak and sickly.

3. Proper sweating is the best way to get rid of the cold. Proper sweating can dispel the cold. Whether you sweat after exercise, sweat after eating warm food, or sweat slightly after soaking your feet, you can achieve the effect of dispelling cold.

4. Diet to dispel cold. Eating spicy and warm foods regularly can dispel the cold. Due to differences in geography and climate, each region has its own dietary habits for dispelling cold. For example, people in the north like to eat warm, high-calorie foods such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, beef, and mutton to expel cold; Sichuan people like spicy and hot food; Guizhou people like sour and spicy food; Hunan people like fried and spicy food; and some people like to drink medicinal wine to dispel cold. Although they are different, their functions are to dispel cold, dampness and keep warm.

5. Heat therapy to dispel cold. Heat therapy to dispel cold is one of the simple, natural and effective methods of dispelling cold that people have used since ancient times. Some use hot water bottles, or heated sand, stones, salt, or paraffin for hot compresses; some use moxa sticks to apply to the painful areas, or stick ginger slices or garlic slices on the painful areas or acupoints and then use moxa; some use Chinese herbal medicine to boil water for soaking, etc.; some use various physical therapy instruments to irradiate and dispel the cold; some use scraping, cupping, etc. to dispel the cold. It can be said that there are many methods to dispel cold in hospitals and among the people. These methods can alleviate and treat various diseases caused by cold and dampness to a certain extent.

The methods introduced above for changing the cold and damp constitution are very detailed. So female friends, if you have a cold and damp constitution, you might as well use the methods introduced above to regulate your body, especially in the dog days of summer. Remember not to eat raw or cold food. After a period of conditioning, you will obviously feel an improvement in this winter.