My palms are sweaty and my feet are cold. What's going on?

Answer 1

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there could be many reasons for sweaty palms and cold feet.

Firstly, there was insufficient yang qi, including qi deficiency and yang deficiency. When qi deficiency occurs, there will be symptoms such as dispirited spirit, short breath and fatigue, hot hands and cold feet, etc. Moreover, it is difficult for qi deficiency to absorb body fluid, resulting in sweating palms. Patients with yang deficiency generally have symptoms such as fear of cold, cold hands and feet, pale face, mental fatigue, etc. Yang deficiency may also make hands and feet cold and palms sweat.

Second, spleen and stomach deficiency, yang deficiency. The weakness of the spleen and stomach would lead to adverse transportation and transformation, and the spleen and stomach were the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Unfavorable transportation and transformation would aggravate the weakness. The spleen and stomach were located in the middle jiao, and qi and blood could not nourish the ends, resulting in heat on the upper and cold on the lower, which might be manifested as sweaty palms and cold feet.

Third, spleen and kidney deficiency. The spleen and kidney were in charge of water metabolism. When the spleen and kidney were weak, there would be problems with water metabolism. Yang qi was insufficient and could not warm the limbs, so there might be symptoms of sweating hands and cold feet.

Fourthly, it could be that his body was cold and damp. Generally, cold feet indicated insufficient kidney yang and cold kidneys. If the soles of the feet were cold and sweaty at the same time, it could be judged that there was cold and dampness in the body. In this case, there might also be symptoms of sweaty palms and cold feet.

Fifth, yang qi stagnation, that is, qi stagnation, yang qi can not reach the local area, may appear cold hands and feet but not afraid of cold, even feel hot in the heart, want to eat cold things, at the same time may be accompanied by palm sweat.

In addition, from a local point of view, cold hands and feet is a local deficiency of yang qi, which may be caused by the overall yang deficiency. In terms of sweating, some people sweat because of excessive yang qi, which belongs to hot physique, such as heavy stomach heat and exuberant heart fire, which can lead to local sweating. There are also wet evil and hot evil in the body, typical qi deficiency and other conditions may also lead to sweating of hands and feet. The colder it is, the more sweating it is. This is a phenomenon that yang qi deficiency cannot absorb body fluid and sweat.

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