Warm Cold Limbs

Warm Cold Limbs comes from “Treatise on Febrile Diseases” written by Zhang Zhongjing in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in China. It is for the treatment of Blood Deficiency and Cold Condense in the Meridians. Because of the Cold Evil Coagulation, the blood flow is insufficient, the Yang can not reach the extremities and the Blood can not fill the blood vessels. This manifests as cold hands and feet, the colour is blue and purple, and the pulse is very weak. If the symptoms show cold limbs, the pulse is very thin and weak, it is the Blood Deficiency and Cold Coagulation Syndrome in Chinese medicine and Warm Cold Limbs can be used for following diseases: thrombo-occlusive vasculitis, circulation disorders, gout, avascular disease, Raynaud’s disease, poliomyelitis, frostbite, arthritis, testicular pain, stubborn headache.

Contra-indicated in pregnancy.

Case:

The medical case of Liu Duzhou, a famous Chinese medicine doctor in modern China: “I was in Yujia village and I saw a woman with a severe stomachache. How did she get it? It was when she was working, she sweated a lot, relieved a pee, and was catching up with her regular vacation. When the wind is strong, she feels that her belly is cold and cold, and her stomach hurts, and her waist hurts. After eating fennel and motherwort herbs, it was better but didn’t’t solve the problem. The pulse was a little stringy. Then I gave her Warm Cold Limbs. She took a few bags of herbs and the problem disappeared.”