What to eat when your hands and feet are cold?

Many women have cold hands and feet, especially in winter, when the coldness will become more serious. Cold hands and feet can be treated through diet. Here are 5 kinds of warming foods to keep you warm in this winter.

1. Angelica, ginger and mutton soup:

500 grams of mutton, 20 grams of ginger, and 10 grams of angelica. Cut the mutton into thick slices and blanch it in boiling water to remove the fishy smell. Then put it into the pot together with ginger slices and angelica, simmer over low heat until the meat is cooked, then add appropriate amount of salt, MSG, pepper, etc. and it is ready to eat. It is suitable for kidney yang deficiency, lack of essence and blood, cold limbs, irregular menstruation, etc.

2. Astragalus Lamb Soup:

50 grams of astragalus, 500 grams of mutton, add pepper, ginger, wine, onion and other seasonings and cook together before eating. This product has the effects of strengthening the spleen and kidney, warming yang and replenishing qi. It is suitable for people with weak constitution, qi deficiency and fatigue, fear of cold limbs, sore waist and knees, and weakness in the limbs.

3. Yam and mutton porridge:

Wash 250 grams of mutton, put it into a pot and cook it until it is soft, grind it into a paste. Wash 100 grams of yam, grind it into powder, and cook it with 100 grams of japonica rice into porridge, and eat it in several times. It can warm and nourish the spleen and kidneys, and is suitable for loss of appetite, low back pain, fatigue, cold hands and feet, etc.

4. Codonopsis and red dates tea:

30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula and 10 red dates are decocted in water and drunk as tea. One dose per day is suitable for spleen deficiency, shortness of breath, laziness to speak, cold body and limbs, etc.

5. Jujube and ginger soup:

The main ingredients are jujube, ginger and brown sugar. The specific method is to take 10 jujubes, 5 slices of ginger and an appropriate amount of brown sugar, decoct them into a soup and drink it instead of tea, once a day, and keep taking it. Drinking jujube and ginger soup regularly can improve the symptoms of cold hands and feet. Jujube is sweet and warm in nature, and has the effects of tonifying the middle and replenishing Qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and has the effects of warming the middle and stopping vomiting, dispelling exterior pathogens and dispersing cold. The combination of the two can give full play to the pungent and warm nature of ginger and the sweet and warm nature of jujube, and jointly promote the circulation of Qi and blood. The blood circulation of the whole body is also improved accordingly, and the hands and feet naturally become warm.

The brown sugar in the soup also has the effects of nourishing the middle, nourishing blood and activating blood circulation. Modern pharmacological research has confirmed that the gingerol contained in ginger has a direct excitatory effect on the heart and vascular motor centers, which can accelerate the heartbeat, dilate blood vessels, increase blood circulation and make collaterals unobstructed, thereby improving body surface circulation and making people feel warm all over.