How to regulate the health of women with cold body and cold uterus
Sep 02, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Sun Lianqing
Introduction
For women experiencing coldness in the body and uterus, regulation generally can be achieved through warming dietary therapies and enhanced abdominal warmth. It is advisable to consume more warming foods such as lamb, beef, longan, red dates, and ginger, and to include warming seasonings such as Sichuan pepper and mugwort leaves in cooking. Cold beverages, cold dishes, and cold-natured fruits should be avoided. Drinking brown sugar ginger tea or red date and longan porridge regularly can help warm the spleen and stomach as well as the uterus, thus improving the condition of internal cold accumulation.
Women with cold body constitution and cold uterus can generally regulate their condition through warming dietary therapy, enhanced abdominal warmth, consistent moderate exercise, regular作息 to nourish yang energy, and soaking feet in warm water to dispel cold. Detailed explanations are as follows:
1. Warming dietary regulation: Consume more warming foods such as lamb, beef, longan, red dates, and ginger. Spices like pepper and mugwort can be added during cooking. Avoid icy drinks, cold dishes, and cold-natured fruits. Drinking brown sugar ginger tea or red date and longan porridge regularly can warm the spleen, stomach, and uterus through diet, improving the condition of internal cold accumulation.
2. Enhance abdominal warmth: Pay attention to keeping the waist and abdomen covered by clothing in daily life; avoid wearing outfits that expose the navel, and wear a waist warmer during winter. Avoid direct exposure of the abdomen to cold air conditioning drafts. During menstruation, apply a hot water bag to the lower abdomen to reduce direct cold invasion to the uterus, alleviating menstrual pain and cold sensations in the lower abdomen.
3. Maintain moderate exercise: Choose gentle exercises such as yoga, brisk walking, jogging, or Baduanjin (Eight Pieces of Brocade), exercising 3-4 times per week for about 30 minutes each session. Exercise promotes overall blood circulation, enhances blood flow to the uterine area, increases uterine temperature, strengthens physical constitution, and reduces symptoms like fatigue and cold hands and feet caused by body and uterine coldness.
4. Regulate作息 to nourish yang energy: Avoid staying up late, go to bed at a fixed time every day, and ensure 7-8 hours of sleep. Nighttime is crucial for yang energy to rest and recover; maintaining regular作息 reduces yang energy consumption, promotes blood and qi production, aids the uterus in regaining warmth, and prevents worsening of cold body and uterus conditions due to irregular作息.
5. Soak feet in warm water to dispel cold: Soak feet in warm water at 40-45°C for 15-20 minutes each night, and add ingredients like mugwort and ginger to enhance the cold-dispelling effect. Foot soaking stimulates acupoints on the feet, improves lower limb blood circulation, promotes yang energy throughout the body, and indirectly improves uterine coldness. After soaking, dry the feet promptly and keep warm to prevent catching a chill.
Regulating cold body and uterus conditions requires long-term persistence and should not rely on short-term methods. Extra attention to warmth and consumption of warm foods is especially important during menstruation, avoiding fatigue.
