 So I have people that come in and see me all the time and one of the symptoms that they often report as being interesting Is that they feel cold all the time or specifically that their hands and feet feel cold all the time now? That seems like a very weird symptom just to comment on put an entire video together for but I think there's a very useful Chinese medicine physiology lesson here that can help you the guys dr. Alex Hein Chinese medicine doctor acupuncturist and author of the health book master the day on Amazon I've included two very important links below this video the first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally or online via Telemedicine there's a link below to my clinic and the easiest way to reach out to me Now the second thing is that there's a free guide which is for daily rituals that can help you add years to your life With traditional Chinese medicine those are both below the video So understanding this idea of immunity Vitality and what Chinese medicine calls yang qi is very very essential to understand why people feel certain temperatures So in one of our most important herbal and physiological texts It describes these six levels of progression from more superficial disease and superficial illness To very deep and very severe life-threatening illness and all the levels in between and each of these levels is categorized By different symptoms and different locations of the symptoms So getting a headache is different from having a stomach ache is different from having you know a urinary tract infection They all represent different states of vitality and different states of the location of the illness Now the reason why temperature is so essential to understand, you know in conventional care It doesn't mean very much probably unless your febrile you have a fever or if you're hypothyroid and you feel cold all the time But in Chinese medicine is very useful and very diagnostic to know a person's body temperature Now what's essential to know is that generally speaking the deeper you get into pathology The lower the immune functioning we could say or the deeper the level of endocrine exhaustion The colder somebody will feel this is really really important because generally speaking the colder a person feels throughout their body The lower the level of vitality quote-unquote meaning usually they have weaker immune systems They're usually prone to getting sicker more often That's usually a clear indicator of cardiovascular flow. So blood circulation is very important and In Chinese medicine generally speaking the colder you feel the worse of a prognostic sign that is So that generally means that the deeper reserves have been depleted And it's almost like your body's been kind of frozen in ice And it's not able to to really kickstart that fire that is the healing force that we view it as So there are really two kinds of feeling cold The two kinds are really what we call young deficiency and the other one is called young constraint So if you imagine that young young Chi is a concept or conceptual framework to visualize The strength of your resources the strength of your immune system strength of your overall health as well as your body's ability to Regenerate and restore itself, you know a young person that can heal quickly is different from an 85 year old man That just is not healing and they just get progressively worse That means that the inborn battery is so depleted it cannot even kickstart the healing reaction in the body So the first this idea of young Chi deficiency young young is weak in the body is where the person Not only has cold hands and feet it can come up to the wrist You know the fingers the palm the wrist and they feel cold their body feels cold the worst cases where they may be sleeping Bundled up like sleeping with gloves because they feel so cold that means that that kind of quote-unquote The healing battery has been again frozen in this ice and it's not able to mobilize these reserves to activate the healing process Now usually this is more common in older people There are younger people as well with this now the second kind is what we call young constraint So this is where people have enough reserves and their body temperature feels warm, but their hands and feet are cold So this is a better prognostic sign than someone who feels cold throughout their whole body purely because if a person's body their core is warm like they feel hot but their extremities are cold it means they have a Good deal of reserves and it's just a circulatory issue where it's getting stuck in the center And it's not getting out to the periphery. So these two ideas Weak young versus the young is stuck are very useful for us diagnostically to know What are the resources of this person? What is the prognosis is this just going to be a few months of treatment to get the Circulation going the healing process kick-started or is this a long-term depletion where the person's fundamental healing resources are weak and They may not be able to heal at all. So this idea of why you feel cold is very useful in Chinese medicine it's very very diagnostic and so I thought I would share this because I see it clinically quite a lot and And it's very useful because you can describe the layers of pathology Physiology and the resources of the actual person So that's what I have for today if you guys if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally or online via telemedicine Click the link below this video which has info on my clinic and contacting me and then beyond that There's a free guide, which is for daily rituals can help you have years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine Then before you go I have two related videos over here