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When Your Hands and Feet Are Cold but Your Face Is Flushed

Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin
의료 감수 Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

Cold hands and feet, a flushed face, a stuffy upper body — that feeling of the top and bottom working separately may be a sign that circulation has split apart.

When heat rises upward and circulation cannot descend well, the upper body becomes hot while the hands and feet stay cold. This appears not only in menopause but also frequently with stress and autonomic imbalance.

  • The face and chest feel hot, the hands and feet feel cold
  • It gets worse when you are tense

I see this as a state where the "up-and-down balance of circulation" has broken, and I approach it in the direction of bringing down the heat that has floated upward and reviving the circulation below.

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Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin

Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

A graduate of the College of Korean Medicine at Kyung Hee University, with master's and doctoral degrees in pathology — the mechanisms of disease — from its graduate school. Later served as a research professor in the university's Herbology department, studying medicinal substances. Studying both disease and medicine from both sides is the foundation of this practice: explaining "why a given medicine works for a given illness" in the language of both pathology and pharmacology. Explains autonomic, chronic, and intractable conditions — and structural problems of the body — in the language of modern science, and proposes treatment matched to the cause. Has taught prescribing and clinical practice to Korean medicine doctors for over ten years, and is a co-author of "Korean Medicine, Explained by Korean Medicine Doctors," selected for the 2018 Sejong Books list (general category).

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