12/21/2024
Do your feet tend to be cold and difficult to warm up?
I would love your feedback. I had my second acupuncture appointment yesterday, and we talked more about the relationship between the kidneys and the feet and the reproductive system.
My feet were especially freezing when I arrived, even though I had the heater in the car only on the feet for the 30 minute drive to my appointment.
Most of the needles were placed in my feet, and he placed a heat lamp over them. He encouraged me to eat lots of spices, especially cinnamon, and to drink ginger and lemon tea with honey.
In Chinese medicine foods have cooling or warming properties depending on which season they tend to grow naturally. For example, watermelon is cooling during the summer, and grows best in that season. Eating watermelon in the winter doesnāt really make sense.
While itās very practical itās still a lot of information to try and remember. You can always use the internet to research a food. So in general we want to be eating warming foods in the winter.
I couldnāt help but draw a connection between the liver and kidneys with the anger ice burg. The kidneys are related to fear/anxiety, and the liver to anger. So this helps me to understand in part why the acupuncturist is targeting my kidneys. And something I thought of after and did not think to ask him, was the relationship of the kidneys to water in our bodies, and the role it may play in the bloating we experience during luteal.
I would also be very interested to know if any of you have a family history of kidney issues. I would really appreciate your feedback as I try to put the pieces together! Thank you š
