What are the traditional Chinese medicines for treating coldness?

Coldness simply refers to body coldness, that is, there is cool air in the body. Some people are born with cold body, while others do not pay attention to protecting themselves and end up freezing because they wear too few clothes. Don’t think that being cold is a trivial matter. Long-term body coldness can cause great harm to the human body, especially to women. So today we will learn about the traditional Chinese medicines that can treat body cold. Let’s take a look.

Commonly used medicines for treating exogenous cold include ephedra, cinnamon twig, perilla, schizonepeta, notopterygium, saposhnikovia, angelica dahurica, asarum, and Ligusticum chuanxiong. Representative prescriptions include Ma Huang Tang, Gui Zhi Tang, Xiang Su San, etc.

To treat internal cold, warming interior medicines are commonly used, which can be divided into four categories: warming the middle and dispersing cold medicines, warming the kidney and restoring yang medicines, warming the liver and dispersing cold medicines, and warming the lungs and transforming phlegm medicines.

① Warming and dispelling cold medicine. It is mainly used to treat internal cold symptoms such as cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. caused by internal invasion of cold evil, trapped Yang Qi, or insufficient spleen Yang and internal generation of cold. Commonly used medicines include dried ginger, galangal, cardamom, prickly ash, pepper, cloves, longan, cubeb, and galangal.

② Kidney-warming and yang-restoring medicine. It is mainly used for the syndrome of yang loss and collapse with internal excess of yin and cold, decline of primordial yang, diarrhea, cold limbs, and constant cold sweat; or syndrome of kidney yang deficiency, impotence, cold uterus, yin and cold edema, and diarrhea at dawn. Commonly used medicines include aconite, Chuanwutou, Aconitum kusnezoffii, cinnamon bark, and Jiuxiangchong.

③ Liver-warming and cold-dispersing medicine. It is mainly used for symptoms such as cold invading the liver meridian, Jueyin headache, cold hernia abdominal pain, etc. Commonly used medicines include Evodia rutaecarpa, fennel, etc.

④ Medicines that warm the lungs and transform fluids. It is mainly used for symptoms such as cold phlegm and fluid retention invading the lungs, wheezing, coughing and thin sputum. Commonly used medicines include dried ginger, asarum, etc.

The formation of body coldness does not happen in a day or two, but is caused by long-term bad living habits and poor physical condition. It takes a long time to cure a cold body. You need to have good living habits and keep your body warm at all times. Pay special attention to keeping your feet warm, because most of the body's heat is in the lower body. How can the body be warm if your feet are cold? You can also take Chinese medicine to treat cold body, which is very helpful for the recovery of cold body.