Food and drink, regardless of the four seasons, always bring warmth. "- Gong Tingxian, Ming Dynasty," Shoushi Baoyuan "
I once saw a 25-year-old girl in the clinic, dressed up beautifully. She said the main symptoms of seeking medical treatment from me are cold hands and feet, and dysmenorrhea.
This girl's face is pale and green. What is pan Qing? It's just a pale complexion without any color or luster, with some blood vessels that are green and visible through the skin. This kind of complexion is called pan green. Panqing indicates the presence of coldness in the body, which can manifest as symptoms such as dysmenorrhea, cold hands and feet, or a stomach that is sensitive to cold. Eating a little cold can cause diarrhea.
After finishing the pulse, I asked her, "Did you like to eat ice cream, popsicles, and other things when you were young
The result is as I had guessed. She said that when she was young, she ate popsicles very well, up to 11 popsicles a day at most. After listening, I suddenly understood that this is also the root cause of her illness!
During the treatment, she also told me that when I was a child, I ate too much ice and didn't pay attention during menstruation. I continued to eat cold food, wash clothes with cold water, and use air conditioning on hot days. But I dare not do it now, because eating something cold can cause diarrhea. According to the common people's words, she is at the root of her illness and must dispel the coldness in order to recover.
I gave her the recipe from Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Cold Damage", which is to add Danggui Sini San, Wu Zhuyu Ginger Soup, Four Gentlemen Soup, and dried ginger.
After a week, the symptoms of cold hands and feet were greatly relieved. She said that after taking the medicine, her stomach felt warm and comfortable, even without using a hot water bottle to apply it. When menstruation comes again, the symptoms of dysmenorrhea are significantly reduced, and the first menstrual period is easily passed.
The term 'cold' in traditional Chinese medicine does not simply refer to coldness in temperature, but rather to a type of pathogenic qi. This kind of coldness cannot be easily dispelled by placing a hot water bottle on our stomach. A hot water bottle only solves surface problems. To fundamentally warm our body, we need to change our wrong lifestyle and dietary habits.
The human body is a whole, and the internal digestive system has its own preferences. We need to provide it with what it likes to eat. What is the least favorite food for the spleen and stomach? Something cool.
Why do you say that? Let's make an analogy. For example, when we play basketball in the summer, we sweat profusely and feel hot and hot. If I were to pour you a basin of cold water, would your skin feel particularly uncomfortable and uncomfortable? Our internal gastrointestinal system maintains a constant temperature of around 37 ℃. At this temperature, we feed it some cold food below 10 ℃. After these foods enter the stomach, what is the first thing the stomach needs to do? Heating up. It can only be absorbed by the body after being heated.
The process of heating raw and cold food consumes our body's energy. If the food you eat is warm, it has been heated beforehand. So, our digestive system saves this process. That is to say, when we eat raw and cold food, our intestines and stomach do the heating work that should be done by a gas stove, consuming a lot of energy, and of course, our intestines and stomach will feel very uncomfortable.
Moreover, it should be noted that gastrointestinal discomfort is mostly not reflected in the brain. So at the beginning, you won't feel uncomfortable eating cold food. Only after a long time, gastrointestinal problems will gradually manifest. So many young girls like to eat ice cream, and their faces turn green and pale after eating it, because it hurts their intestines and stomach.
The area represented by our digestive system is the triangular region around the nose on the face. Many people in this area are particularly prone to acne, especially those who prefer darker colored acne with a bluish or pale color, which is mostly caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness.
So, whether it's taking care of the gastrointestinal tract, beauty, or preventing acne, it's important to develop good lifestyle habits and eat warm food. The sages once left words and phrases saying, 'Food should be warm.' This means that one should choose warm things when eating.

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