Causes and treatment of night sweats

Night sweating is mainly caused by yin deficiency and internal heat, evil heat and steam, and cardiovascular insufficiency (insufficient blood in the heart), etc. Different treatments are used according to different causes, and evidence-based treatment is applied. 1. Yin deficiency and internal heat: Yin deficiency and internal heat mainly refers to the deficiency of yin fluid in the body, and the fever caused by the failure of water to control fire, which is manifested as dizziness, insomnia, night sweating (sweating abnormally after going to sleep, but the sweating stops after waking up), and tinnitus in the clinic, and it can be treated by taking medicines such as Gui Shao Di Huang Pill, Zhi Bai Di Huang Pill, and Liu Wei Di Huang Pill. 2. Evil-heat depression and vaporization: Irritable mood, sadness, spicy diet and other reasons can cause liver-qi stagnation (the liver’s qi and blood transportation is not smooth, depression), leading to the body to appear the situation of damp-heat inside, so that there is a leakage of fluid, resulting in the symptom of night sweating, can be treated by taking Longdian Diarrheal Liver Soup, Four Miaosan, pay attention to the diet of the ordinary life, keep a pleasant state of mind. 3. Insufficiency of heart and blood: If prolonged thinking and worrying will damage the heart and spleen, which will cause blood deficiency and loss of nourishment, resulting in insufficiency of heart and blood, the patient will have excessive sweat leakage, causing spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with a little movement), night sweating, etc. The patient should reduce the worrying in normal times, and be treated with GuiShuTang (Spleen Soup) and BaZhenTang (Eight Truths Soup), etc., if necessary. It is recommended that patients with night sweating go to the hospital for examination and take medication as prescribed by the doctor.