Why Do My Feet Feel Hot?

Hot feet, also known as hot soles, is mainly caused by malnutrition due to spleen deficiency, blood deficiency, and yin loss. Daily attention should be paid to diet. If the symptoms are severe, medical attention should be sought promptly.

The first reason is uncontrolled diet, alternating between overeating and hunger. This can lead to gastrointestinal diseases over time, which can result in poor absorption of grain nutrients, leading to malnutrition and fever. Common symptoms in these patients include hot hands and feet, yellow complexion and emaciation, dry and brittle hair, abdominal distension, poor appetite, eating unusual objects, poor sleep, loose stool with undigested food, and dark yellow and turbid urine. It is recommended to reduce the intake of cold and indigestible foods and increase the intake of warm and stomach-nourishing foods such as pumpkin, carrots, lychees, longans, lotus seeds, jujubes, glutinous rice, walnuts, beef, chicken, duck, goose, shrimp, crucian carp, eel, and silver carp.

This is often caused by a weak constitution, or failure to recuperate after a serious illness or fever. Common symptoms include hot hands and feet, emaciation, mental lethargy, cough with little sputum, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and throat, afternoon heat, red cheeks, night sweats, frequent urination, and constipation. People with similar conditions can eat some cooling foods and yin-tonifying foods such as lilies, mung beans, and lotus seeds. However, it is not advisable to consume yang-tonifying and stimulating foods such as ginger, chili, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, fennel, broad beans, coriander, mutton, and dog meat.