Just a specialist can analyze the reason for your hot and cold side effects, yet these flashes are all the time caused by anxiety.
The Concept of Hot and Cold Flashes, although popular, is littered with confusion due to all kinds of rumors flying around. My purpose is to reduce this confusion by restoring some common sense and criteria into this concept to make it more useful. Cold herbs are for expelling the internal heat from the body, for purging any “undesirable” substance, or for calming the liver, which often becomes overactive. You may feel cooler or more relaxed after taking them. Some examples:
- Huang Qin
- Lian Qiao
- Zhi Mu
- Ban Zhi Lian
- Huang Bai
Why Do Hot and Cold Work so Well?
It’s all to do with the muscles and the blood vessels. Many headache pains are caused by enlarged blood vessels pressing on surrounding nerves. Applying something cold to the area can help to constrict those vessels, reducing their diameter and lessening the pounding headache.
Some headaches are caused by tension and anxiety. This tightens up the muscles which then pinch nerves and enlarge blood vessels. Applying cold or heat to them (or alternating between the two) can loosen them up, releasing the pinched nerves and calming down the blood vessels.
If you are going through menopause the old adage “forewarned is forearmed” is one of the best pieces of advice you can get. Knowing about the sorts of things you might feel during menopause allows you to be mentally prepared. And since there are so many symptoms of menopause, you need to be ready for almost anything, not least of all heart rate irregularities, migraines, weight gain, sleep problems, mood swings, depression, muscular and joint pains. There are lesser known symptoms as well.