Home remedies · Everyday life & travel
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Keep the trunk warm, put gloves on early, move rather than rub; during an attack put the hands in warm water.
The body sacrifices blood flow to the hands to keep the middle warm. Warming the trunk lifts that economy measure — more effective than any glove alone.
It does not clarify why the vessels react so strongly.
Fingers that turn white, then blue, then red in attacks are a picture of their own and need looking at — especially when new. Smoking makes it distinctly worse.
Have it assessed: heat with confusion, dry hot skin or clouded consciousness — that is more than exhaustion. A one-sided swollen leg after a long journey. And anything new that does not go away within a few days.