Why do I feel cold?

People's bodies are very sensitive to the external environment and can easily tell whether the temperature outside is cold or hot. But sometimes, some people feel cold, even if they wear more clothes, so what is the reason for this situation? Many times this condition occurs due to insufficient yang energy in the body, which means that the body is weak and cold. Such a situation has a great impact on a person's physical condition.

Insufficient Yang Qi is the most common cause of being afraid of cold.

Generally speaking, people who are afraid of cold often have insufficient yang energy in their bodies. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Qi has a warming and nourishing effect on the human body. If the body lacks yang energy, the warming effect will be weakened and people will feel cold.

Why is there insufficient Yang Qi in the body?

To sum up, there are two reasons: either due to congenital deficiency, the physical constitution is worse than that of ordinary people since birth; or due to malnutrition after birth, the yang energy in the body is excessively damaged. For example, some people like sports. All year round, no matter what season it is, as long as they exercise, they have to sweat profusely to feel comfortable. Actually, it is not. Sweating after moderate exercise is a normal reaction to the circulation of qi and blood and the opening of pores on the skin surface. However, if you sweat profusely frequently, especially in autumn and winter when the Yang energy should be restrained and stored inside, excessive sweating will definitely damage the Yang energy of the body. Life lies in movement, but it also requires a sense of degree. A large amount of data shows that many centenarians do not exercise very much in their daily lives. Most of them lead a slow-paced life of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains". This is also a point that Chinese health experts of all generations have emphasized very much - move, but don't move rashly and don't over-exercise.

So, what foods can replenish the body's yang energy?

Lamb, beef, lotus seeds, yam, jujube, maltose, honey, lentils, glutinous rice, etc. are all good choices.

Catching a cold due to wind is also a common cause of feeling cold.

However, this fear of cold is often accompanied by fever, with an obvious history of catching a cold, and the onset is often rapid. Almost every one of us has had this experience: the weather suddenly cooled down, and we didn't add clothes in time; the indoor temperature was very high, and the outdoor temperature was very low, with a large temperature difference between indoor and outdoor; we sweated and took off our clothes all of a sudden; the water was a little cold when taking a shower, and we shivered with cold... As a result, we caught a cold, had a fever, and felt chills. It seemed that no matter how much we wore or how much we covered ourselves, it couldn't solve the problem. This is a typical fear of cold caused by catching a cold.

Why do people feel cold after being caught in the wind?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that each of us has a layer of positive energy on the surface of our body that plays a protective and defensive role. Under normal circumstances, it can block the invasion of various evil spirits from the outside world. However, when the protective and defensive function of positive energy weakens or the external evil energy is too strong, the evil energy will invade the human body, and then the person will get sick. Take catching a cold by the wind as an example. After the evil wind and cold invade the human body, the body's positive energy fights against it. When the battle between good and evil reaches a "white-hot" level, the human body will show symptoms of increased body temperature. At the same time, since the positive energy on the body's surface is concentrated and mobilized to drive away the evil energy, the amount of positive energy that plays a protective and defensive role on the body's surface is significantly reduced. At this time, the human body will feel cold.

Since catching a cold due to wind is the root cause of fear of cold, in addition to wearing more clothes and keeping warm, you should quickly boil water with ginger, onion roots and brown sugar, and drink it while it is hot. Once the cold air dissipates, the fear of cold will naturally be relieved.

Liver qi disharmony is also a common cause of fear of cold.

This condition is more common in women. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver is responsible for the regulation of Qi, and plays a role in guiding and regulating the Qi of the whole body. If you are often angry or depressed, the flow of Qi in your body will be hindered. If the Qi in the human body is all gathered in one place and cannot be evenly distributed throughout the body, the body surface will lack the warmth and warmth of the Qi, and the body will still feel cold.

In daily life, we often see that many women are more afraid of cold than ordinary people. So, he thought that he had yang deficiency and took a lot of supplements. But in reality, the results are not entirely what people want. The reason is that the root cause of this fear of cold is the stagnation of liver qi, rather than the deficiency of yang qi in the body. The author once met a woman in her 40s who always wore more clothes than the people around her. She never dared to turn on the air conditioner in the summer, but she always felt cold. I took a lot of supplements and medicines, but the terrible cold didn't get better at all. It turned out that this woman had a bad temper and was always sulking. Over time, the Qi becomes blocked, the Yang fails to disperse, and fear of the cold becomes inevitable. It can be seen that the mood will directly affect a person's physical health.

For people with liver qi discomfort, in addition to learning to free themselves mentally and becoming optimistic, they can also use white plum blossoms, roses, orange leaves, tangerine peels, etc. to make tea to regulate qi.