What causes the back to feel cold

Some people often feel cold on their backs in life. In fact, there are reasons for this. For example, people with yang deficiency usually have pale face, shortness of breath, weakness, chills, cold sweats, or decreased resistance. If this is indeed the reason, you should pay attention to keeping warm and eat more foods that can nourish the kidneys and replenish qi.

1. A cold back may be caused by yang deficiency

In traditional Chinese medicine, the abdomen is yin and the back is yang, and yang energy has the function of dispelling cold, warming the human body and promoting the circulation of qi and blood. When the back is cold, it means that the yang energy is weak and has been invaded by cold air. Yang Qi deficiency is also accompanied by decreased resistance, pale complexion, shortness of breath, lack of energy, etc. The best conditioning method is to maintain and enhance Yang energy.

Conditioning methods: Pay attention to keeping warm in winter to reduce diseases caused by the invasion of cold air; kinetic energy raises yang, so you should exercise moderately; eat foods that nourish the kidneys and replenish qi. In winter, you can often eat mutton and angelica soup, venison, ginger, etc.

2. It may be that the bladder meridian is invaded by cold air

The bladder meridian is mainly distributed on the back and is the main barrier for the human body to resist external cold. If the bladder meridian is blocked or invaded by cold air, it is easy to get sick. Therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, the bladder meridian treats diseases of the internal organs, head, and tendons.

If the bladder meridian is out of balance, symptoms such as fever, chills, runny nose, headache, neck and back pain, and low back pain may occur. Therefore, when your back often feels cold, you need to “open up” the bladder meridian. The so-called opening up of the bladder meridian means strengthening the blood circulation in the back.

3. Kidney Yang Deficiency

Common symptoms include chills, fear of cold, weakness in the waist and knees, back pain, diarrhea, dull complexion, dysmenorrhea in women, and susceptibility to colds.

Conditioning method: Choose medicinal foods that replenish kidney yang, such as walnut kernel chicken soup, astragalus lamb tripe soup, eucommia mutton soup, etc.

4. Calorie deficiency

A cold back is also a manifestation of chills. Anemia, calorie deficiency, hypothyroidism, etc. in women in winter can also cause chills.

Treatment method: Even if physical diseases are ruled out, hypothyroidism needs timely treatment, and those facing anemia and calorie deficiency need to pay more attention to diet, such as pork liver for iron supplement, kiwi fruit for vitamin C and folic acid supplement, beef and chicken for calories and protein supplement, etc.