Sweating feet may be caused by physiological reasons, such as footwear discomfort, exercise sweating, etc., or pathological factors such as yin deficiency and fire, evil heat and steam, etc., at this time may belong to the category of traditional Chinese medicine sweating, can be identified by the doctor to take Angelica Six Yellow Soup, gentian diarrhea liver soup and other tonics for treatment.
1. Physiological reasons: If the sweating of the feet is caused by the inappropriate shoes and socks worn, resulting in the formation of sweat in the feet can not breathe, generally through the diligent change of shoes and socks, to maintain normal ventilation of the feet can be resolved; if it is due to the sweat of the feet caused by the exercise, after stopping the exercise can disappear on their own, generally do not need special treatment.
2. Yin deficiency and fire exuberance: manifested as five heart-heat (the heart of the two hands and the heart of the two feet are hot, and conscious of the heart and chest irritability and sultriness), night-sleeping and night-sweating (sweating abnormally after falling asleep, and waking up to stop sweating), which leads to sweating of the feet. The treatment is to nourish yin and reduce fire, and can be done with Angelica Six Yellow Soup, which consists of Angelica sinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, and Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae. If the hot flashes are severe, add Gentiana Macrophylla, Yin Chaihu and Bai Wei.
3. Evil heat and stagnant vapor: it can be manifested as steaming sweat, sticky sweat, baking heat and other symptoms, which leads to sweating of the feet, the treatment should be clearing the liver and draining heat, transforming dampness and camping, and can be treated with Gentian Diarrhea and Liver Soup. This formula consists of gentian herb, gardenia, zejiao, mouton, psyllium, scutellaria, etc. Dampness and heat within and the heat is not prevalent, can be changed to use the four wonderful pill.
Sweating feet if exclude physiological factors should be timely medical treatment, by the doctor for diagnosis and treatment, the use of drugs should follow the doctor’s instructions.