My hands and feet are cold all year round. What does TCM say about that?

Cold hands and feet are read as a question about circulation and warmth in the whole body, not about the hands.

Rule out the medical basics first (iron, thyroid) — cold extremities can be a lab value, not a constitution. If your workup is clean, TCM reads perennially cold hands/feet as yang not reaching the four ends, and the classical countermeasures are unglamorous: evening foot soak with water above the ankles, 15 minutes, then socks immediately; and rubbing the soles (around KD-1) until warm before sleep. In winter the tradition adds "guard the back and the neck" because that is where people lose the most heat. It is maintenance, not treatment — expect weeks, not days. If one hand changes colour or a finger ulcer appears, that is a doctor, not a routine.

Qicura reads a described symptom against this kind of material and returns a pattern in plain language with the sources named. It does not dispense: no herb quantities, no formula composition, no preparation instructions, and no needling technique - those are deliberate limits enforced on the server, not wording we soften for a page.

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