Food and medicine to cure numbness in hands and feet
Numbness in limbs in Oriental medicine is also called Numbness (ma moc), patients are often attacked by this disease when their resistance is weak.
Numbness in the limbs in Oriental medicine is also called Numbness (ma moc), patients are often attacked by this disease when their resistance is weak. The main causes are: Wind, cold, dampness, heat combined with a weakened state of the body.
The basic pathogenesis of numbness is “no circulation, then pain”, the key to treatment is also “circulation”. Based on the differences in the causative factors such as wind, cold, humidity, heat, choose treatment methods by diet similar to ventilation, cold dispersion, humidity dispersion, heat reduction. Below are some simple dishes and medicines to support the treatment of numbness.
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Recipe 1: 4 onions, 9g fang feng, 50g rice, finely chopped onions and fang feng, boil to get the medicinal water, add rice to the medicinal water, add enough water to cook porridge to eat, used for numbness caused by cold wind, joint pain that is not fixed
Recipe 2: 30g red beans, 10g ginger root, boil ginger root to get the water and discard the residue, add red beans and cook until done, eat twice a day, used for numbness and joint pain that is not fixed.
Recipe 3: 3 slices of fresh ginger, 3g of mint, 50g of rice, and enough brown sugar. Boil the mint with water, then add the rice, ginger, and brown sugar to make porridge. When it is almost done, add the mint water, cook for a while longer, then eat. Use for people with numbness caused by cold wind and swollen, painful joints.
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Fresh ginger, a medicinal herb for treating numbness in the limbs. |
According to SK&DS
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