If you have a physique with upper heat and lower cold, you will usually have these symptoms, come and compare

Patient sharing (40 years old, middle-aged male): The patient is a white-collar worker who sits at a computer desk for a long time and rarely exercises. For many years, I have always felt that I am prone to getting angry symptoms. If I eat a little fried food, I will get mouth ulcers, tongue sores, and even tonsil inflammation.

I usually have a poor appetite and poor gastrointestinal function. Drinking cold drinks and eating cold food will cause diarrhea, easy fatigue, dizziness and tinnitus, and it is easy to catch a cold. In the past six months, I found that my sexual function has also declined, and I seem to have premature ejaculation.

I also prescribed some traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions in the local hospital, but I couldn't bear the heat and tonification, and I couldn't bear the cold and cold, so the prescriptions didn't have any obvious effect.

Friends often ask Sister Miao that she often suffers from oral ulcers, mouth and tongue sores, pimples on her face, and even gets so angry that she can't sleep. But at the same time, I am afraid of the cold. I feel cold from the waist down. After eating a cold drink, my stomach feels unbearable, and my stool is loose.

Some women may also have palace cold and dysmenorrhea. I wanted to recuperate my body, but I didn't expect to get angry if I ate hot food, and hurt my yang energy if I ate cold food.

In fact, this is a typical "hot in the upper part and cold in the lower part" physique. It cannot be tolerated by warming and tonifying, and it cannot be tolerated by cold and cold, so it is difficult to regulate. Today, let's take a look at how TCM regulates the constitution of "upper heat and lower cold"!

It is said in "Lingshu · Thorn Festival True Evil": "The upper heat is colder, and the person who sees its empty veins and sinks in the meridian takes it, and the qi is stopped when it is lower. This is the so-called one that leads downward."

In the concept of Chinese medicine, the circulation of qi and blood in our body is just like the circulation in nature. The heart governs fire and resides in the upper part of the human body, like the sun in the sky; the kidney governs water and resides in the lower part of the human body, like rivers on the ground.

Under normal circumstances, the heart fire draws on the stomach qi to sink down to warm the kidney yang, so that symptoms such as fear of cold, diarrhea, and cold limbs will not occur due to insufficient kidney yang.

And the kidney water rises upwards with the help of the rising of the temper to relieve the heart fire. By cooperating with each other in this way, our body will not suffer from problems such as irritability, irritability, and oral ulcers due to excessive heart fire.

The state of normal operation mentioned above is called "water and fire mutual aid". Simply put, it is to keep the circulation of qi, blood, yin and yang in the body in a normal state, so that the places that need to be warm are kept warm, and the places that need to be cooled are properly maintained. cool down. And the physique of "hot in the upper part and cold in the lower part" is the result of "insufficient water and fire".

The "Huangdi Neijing" said: "Today's fever patients are all typhoid fever... People who are injured by cold are sick with fever." This sentence points out: "Cold is the cause of fever", if the cold evil is too strong in the human body, it will repel the yang, and the yang will float up and disperse, and it will appear as the upper part of the heat, and people will appear upper part of the body. fire symptoms. In other words, the body cold of many people is actually the root cause of getting angry.

For the constitution of "upper heat and lower cold", during the same period, the upper part shows heat symptoms, and the lower part shows cold symptoms. Generally, one or more of the symptoms described below occur at the same time.

Symptoms of getting hot: easy to get angry, mouth ulcers, sore throat, toothache, nosebleeds; chronic otitis media; red and swollen eyes, dry and astringent eyes; acne; thyroid problems; headache, dizziness, and even elevated blood pressure.

Symptoms of lower cold: coldness below the navel, frequent diarrhea; cold waist, cold knees; dysmenorrhea in women, cold and damp scrotum in men; cold hands and feet, especially afraid of cold; Edema; constipation or loose diarrhea.

Soak feet to reduce fire: Use appropriate amount of mugwort leaves, cinnamon twigs, and Evodia rutaecarpa, add water and boil for 20 minutes, then let it cool down to a comfortable temperature. Generally speaking, the most suitable temperature for foot bathing is about 40 degrees, the water surface is about 2-3 centimeters above the ankle, and the time is controlled at about 20 minutes. It is advisable to sweat a little.

Sunbathing: Sunbathing your back every morning is a good way to prevent disease and keep healthy. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the back is yang and the chest and abdomen are yin. The Du Meridian and the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian of our body mainly run through our back. Moderately bask in the back, let the Yang Qi of the sun connect with the Du Channel on the back, and warm it up, which can dispel the cold air on the bladder meridian.

Massage the abdomen to dredge qi and blood: push the palm down from the heart socket to the lower abdomen, repeat for 3-5 minutes every day. You can use both hands or one hand. If you find any blocked places (such as hard lumps, pain points, etc.) during the massage, you must push and knead repeatedly until they are pushed and rubbed away.

In this place, the Ren, Kidney, Stomach, Spleen, Liver, Gallbladder, and the meridians of the five internal organs all converge here. Abdominal massage in this way can dredge the middle energies in place, and the upper and lower energies will also be dredged, achieving the purpose of soothing the liver and regulating qi, appetizing and invigorating the spleen, nourishing the kidneys and nourishing the heart.

Moxibustion: Appropriately doing moxibustion on Yongquan and other acupoints can not only nourish yang, but also nourish yin, and can also dispel cold, dampness and blood stasis, eliminate stasis in the middle burner, and at the same time replenish middle qi, help the spleen rise and stomach fall, and these are all It promotes the intersection of the heart and the kidney, and improves the constitution of "heat in the upper part and cold in the lower part". The acupuncture points and time of moxibustion are recommended to be carried out under the guidance of professional physicians.

Daily diet: avoid spicy food, go to bed early and get up early, and exercise properly to help raise the body's yang energy and enhance immunity.

Now I understand why some people have pimples on their faces and seem to be "angry", but their limbs are cold. However, some people often suffer from oral ulcers, thinking that they are on fire, and often drink some heat-clearing herbal tea to relieve the internal heat, but oral ulcers often recur. Do it, stick to it, and it will definitely improve.

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