What is the heartache in winter?
Insufficient heart yang—when you go to a cold environment or eat cold food, you will feel tightness and pain in the chest, palpitations, heart beating wildly, cold sweats, heart squeezing pain, and a feeling of dying.
Manifestations: The heart governs the gods, if the heart yang is insufficient, you will be depressed, often drowsy, have no energy to think about problems, unresponsive, and do not like to talk; the heart belongs to fire, if the heart yang is insufficient, you will be cold all over the body, your hands and feet are cold, and you like warm things You must wear more clothes on the chest area; the tongue is bruised, the face is easy to bruise, and the lips are easy to turn purple in cold places.
Causes: Insufficient Qi and blood, weak spleen and stomach, lack of exercise, lack of righteousness; tiredness from eating and drinking; excessive thinking;
Causes of onset: the weather suddenly becomes cold, and the clothes are not added in time; eating cold food, medicine, and drinks; being tired and staying up late.
People with insufficient heart yang must warm the yang in winter. For example, you can moxibustion, soak your feet in hot water with Sichuan pepper, eat ginger candy products, drink warming medicinal wine, etc.
