What causes cold lower abdomen?

Many friends actually experience a cold lower abdomen, but they don’t understand why this happens. There are many reasons for a cold lower abdomen, for example, uterine cold is the most common factor. Uterine cold can be divided into congenital and acquired. Congenital uterine cold is mainly caused by physical weakness, while acquired uterine cold may be caused by bad living habits. This is what everyone needs to pay attention to.

1. Is a cold stomach caused by cold uterus?

A cold feeling in the stomach is one of the manifestations of uterine cold, which is called lower abdominal cold. But a cold lower abdomen does not necessarily mean a cold uterus. A cold abdomen may also be related to gastrointestinal discomfort. Some people have diarrhea, gastroenteritis, etc., which can cause a cold abdomen.

2. Causes of uterine cold

So, what causes "uterine cold"? In fact, uterine cold can be divided into many causes, including congenital and acquired. Some people are born with a weak constitution and deficient Yang Qi, for example, their limbs are easily cold, which is particularly obvious when the weather turns cold. But many of them are caused by "acquired factors", that is, modern unhealthy lifestyles.

Experts believe that many modern women suffer from deficiency syndrome due to work stress, mental pressure, and lack of exercise. In addition, they have an unhealthy lifestyle such as improper daily conditioning, a preference for cold drinks, revealing and thin clothing in winter, and too low air-conditioning temperature in the workplace, which allows external cold evil to invade the human body and damage the body's yang energy, making it more likely for them to have uterine cold.

3. What to do if you have uterine cold

3.1. Do not sit under the air conditioner for a long time, and do not sit on cold chairs, stone benches, or the ground. When wearing a skirt in summer, you can use a shawl to protect your legs, especially your knees. Women who are afraid of cold also need stockings to prevent the cold from starting from the feet.

3.2. Eat more foods that replenish qi and warm the body, such as walnuts, dates, peanuts and other high-energy foods, so that the innate deficiencies can be supplemented by acquired high energy. There is no need to worry about getting angry. People with cold uterus constitution lack fire energy and are not prone to symptoms of excessive fire and heat in the body.

3.3. Wear more clothes to protect yourself from the cold. Don’t sleep lying down in the office to avoid exposing your back, as the cold air can invade the uterus from the waist.

Women don't need to worry too much if they suffer from uterine cold. As long as you pay more attention to your diet and daily life, or consult a doctor for treatment, uterine cold can be dispelled.

What to do if women have cold lower abdomen

1. Old ginger and brown sugar water: Use old ginger and brown sugar water every morning to drive away the cold and warm the body, promote kidney yang and warm the spleen and stomach, which is very beneficial for the small intestine to "digest" breakfast food and meet the body's daily nutrient energy supply.

2. Moxibustion: Use moxa to moxibustion the Qihai point (a strengthening point), Shenque point (a point where cold easily accumulates), Guanyuan point (warming the Dantian), and Baliao point for 15 minutes. For severe uterine coldness, moxibustion on the Shenque point with ginger can enhance the effect.

3. Fumigation: Fumigation of the whole body with positive plants such as turmeric and lemongrass. These aromatic herbs not only warm the meridians in the abdomen through hot air fumigation, warm the Dantian, promote stagnant blood, metabolize toxins, but also warm the stomach and promote absorption in the small intestine.

4. Belly band plus a hot pack: Wear a belly band to warm your abdomen, and your whole body will be warm. When it is very cold, stick a hot pack on your abdomen and lower back, which is equivalent to applying hot compress to your abdomen at any time.

How to regulate female uterine cold

1. Standards for eating cold food: Traditional Chinese medicine recommends that it is best to eat cold food only in the midsummer season, and do not eat food just taken out of the refrigerator. But you can control this scale yourself. People with dry body and hot temper can eat a little more, but not too much, for example, no more than two ice creams a day.

2. Order of eating cold food: When you have to eat both cold and hot things, it is best to eat the hot one first and then the cold one. If the order is reversed, the cold air will be pushed down to the uterus by the hot air, causing harm.

3. Distinguish cold food: In addition to food taken out of the refrigerator, there are many foods that, although eaten at room temperature, are essentially cold in nature, such as watermelon, pear, pork, mung bean, rock sugar, bitter gourd, etc., even after heating. It also depends on the season and you should eat in moderation.

4. Ginger tea before meals: Develop good eating habits. You can drink a cup of ginger tea before meals (a piece of ginger, brewed with boiling water, drink it while hot). It can actively dissolve the coldness in cold food or cool food, and keep an eye on your uterus in terms of diet.

5. Walk briskly: Women with uterine cold tend to be quiet and steady, and they easily feel tired after excessive exercise. In fact, "movement generates yang", and people with cold constitutions especially need to improve their constitution through exercise.