Women with Qi and Blood Deficiency: Women with both Qi and Blood deficiency are susceptible to cold invasion. During autumn and winter, they often experience cold hands and feet, facial spots and acne, decreased libido, premature aging, and are prone to uterine cold.
Women with Frequent Abortions: Abortions can damage the uterus, especially frequent or improperly performed ones, leading to excessive endometrial injury and uterine cold.
Women with Cervicitis, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, or Vaginitis: Gynecological inflammations can damage the uterus, allowing cold pathogens to invade and cause uterine cold. This also makes the inflammation difficult to cure completely.
Women with Uterine Fibroids or Ovarian Cysts: Gynecological tumors can compromise the body's defenses, depleting vital yang energy and leading to the internal generation of cold pathogens. This results in uterine cold and exacerbates the condition.
How to Address Uterine Coldness
1. Pay Attention to Diet
To regulate uterine coldness, minimize consumption of raw and cold foods. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that women possess a yin constitution and should avoid excessive coldness. Limit intake of cold beverages, iced tea, fruits, and other cooling items.
2. Stay Warm and Avoid Cold
Some women set their air conditioners to extremely low temperatures. Unbeknownst to them, cold pathogens are quietly invading their internal organs and damaging their uterus. Therefore, when indoors with air conditioning, it is crucial to stay warm. Wear longer tops to protect the waist and abdomen. When outdoors, avoid sitting directly on the ground or stone benches to prevent catching cold.
3. Engage in Physical Exercise
As the saying goes, "Movement boosts yang energy." Those with a cold constitution particularly need exercise to improve their physical condition. Brisk walking is the simplest method. Walking, especially on cobblestone paths, stimulates the meridians and acupoints on the soles of the feet. This helps unblock meridians, regulate qi and blood flow, improve circulation, and warm the entire body.
4. Warm Foot Baths
Women can soak their feet in hot water nightly—an excellent warming practice. Ensure water covers ankles. Keep a kettle nearby to add hot water as it cools, maintaining a 15–20 minute soak. This also enhances sleep quality while regulating cold constitutions. Mugwort foot baths offer similar benefits.
5. Regularly perform uterine-warming exercises
Kneel comfortably on the bed with knees naturally apart. Keep your back straight, then bend forward, bringing your chest as close to the bed as possible. Hold this position for 5 minutes. Next, lie flat on your back and perform abdominal contraction and buttock-lifting movements. Hold the position in the air for 3-5 minutes, feeling your uterus contract along with your body.
Performing this uterine-warming exercise 3-4 times weekly can raise uterine temperature by 0.15°C!
Nutritionist's Tip: Pay attention to dietary habits during uterine warming—avoid raw, cold, cooling, and highly stimulating foods.