When many of my friends write to me for advice, they always say that they have “night sweats”. But what exactly is called night sweats, may still be many people do not understand. There are 6 kinds of sweat in Chinese medicine: self sweat, war sweat, night sweat, excessive sweat, absolute sweat, closed sweat. 1, self sweating When you are awake and not very active or simply not active, sweating for no reason is called self sweating. The three causes of the extreme a disease evidence formula – spontaneous sweating evidence treatment: “the spontaneous sweating, mostly due to wind and heat stroke, and joy, anger and panic, room deficiency, all can cause it. No question of fainting and waking up, dip from the name of spontaneous sweating.” Clinical manifestations Yang deficiency spontaneous sweating, must be vicious cold (fear of cold); fire heat spontaneous sweating, must be dry and hot; injury damp spontaneous sweating, sleepy body heavy (body seems to be filled with lead, lazy to move), more powerful on cloudy days, talk like out of a jar, weak; injury wind spontaneous sweating, headache body heat, cough boring, nasal congestion and runny; injury summer heat spontaneous sweating, body heat, thirst, irritability face dirt; phlegm evidence spontaneous sweating, head dizziness vomiting, chest full of phlegm; heart deficiency spontaneous sweating, dazed and confused; liver heat Spontaneous sweating, bitter mouth and sleep; kidney deficiency spontaneous sweating, hot flashes and cough (hot flashes: a burst of fever, sometimes hot and sometimes not); spleen deficiency spontaneous sweating, tiredness and little food; lung deficiency, typhoid fever, warm diseases, spasms, cholera and other pathologies also have spontaneous sweating. During the day, not because of fatigue, or no obvious cause and sweating from time to time, the symptom of increasing at every turn. Also known as spontaneous sweating. It is mostly caused by disharmony of Ying and Wei, heat burning Yangming, summer heat injury to Qi and Yin, Qi deficiency and Yang deficiency, etc. It can be seen in the six external infections or internal miscellaneous diseases, the former is mostly actual evidence, the latter is mostly deficiency evidence. For those who are not in harmony with Ying and Wei, Gui Zhi Tang is used to harmonize Ying and Wei. For heat-incurred Yang Ming with high heat and thirst, sweating with a large pulse, the treatment is to clear heat and diarrhea, using Bai Hu Tang. Summer heat injures qi and yin, thirst, red tongue, large pulse, the treatment is to clear the summer heat and benefit the qi and generate fluid, the formula is used to clear the summer heat and benefit qi Tang. Qi deficiency with spontaneous sweating, shortness of breath and lazy speech, sweating with white face. Yang deficiency spontaneous sweating, coldness in the extremities, dullness and loose stools, the treatment is to warm the spleen and kidney, using Jin Kui Kidney Qi Pill and Tonic Zhong Yi Qi Tang plus reduction. In modern times, most of the spontaneous sweating is heart yin deficiency, so you can take Pai Zi Yang Xin Wan. In addition, there are some people who sweat spontaneously when they see someone they like, or when they are nervous about taking an exam or meeting their boss. 2, war sweat that the whole body shivered after sweating, is a manifestation of the process of heat disease in the fight between good and evil. If the heat recedes after the war sweat, the pulse is quiet and the body is cool, it means that the evil is gone and the vitality is restored, which is a good phenomenon. If you have a cold and fever and shivering and sweating, the fever is receding, which is a manifestation of the victory of war sweat and positive energy. If the sweat is followed by cold extremities and restlessness, it means that the positive energy is unable to overcome the evil, and the positive energy goes down with the weakness, which is a critical symptom. War sweats are mostly seen in the beginning and middle stages of various infectious diseases. You should go to the hospital promptly. 3, night sweating After going to sleep, sweating is abnormal, and after waking up, sweating will stop as a characteristic symptom. The ancient medical practitioners used the word “theft” to describe the disease with the sneaky activities of thieves at night every day, and whenever people fall asleep, or just when they close their eyes and will fall asleep, sweat like a thief secretly leaks out. There are many children who have a slight night sweat after falling asleep because they have enough yang energy, which is normal. If the sweating is heavy, the sweat often has a light salty smell, or light odor, wet pajamas, accompanied by an obvious sense of baking heat, irritability, dry mouth after sweating, like to drink cool water. Usually, it can be accompanied by low fever or hot flashes, irritability of the five hearts, occasional red cheekbones, dizziness, and dry stools. Then it is Kidney Yin deficiency. You can take Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan with light salt water during the day. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a lot of money in the marketplace. The same can be said for menopausal night sweats, the same can be referred to these conditioning methods. 4, excessive sweating It is the body sweats abnormally much, and some patients also have low heat or fear of wind. Although some systemic diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, obesity, diabetes, tuberculosis, etc., can cause excessive sweating, most excessive sweating is caused by plant nerve disorders, and its pathogenesis is mainly caused by abnormal excitation of sympathetic nerves. If the patient has made various examinations and there is no problem, it can be determined that it is caused by phytodystrophy. The main reason for this is that it is not a problem. Sha Shen 20 grams, Yu Zhu 20 grams, Guang Chen Pi 4 grams, rabbit meat 200 grams (slightly sizzling), boil soup. Mulberry tea: this tea nourishes yin and stops sweating. Mulberry seeds 20 grams, Wu Wei Zi 15 grams, glutinous rice root 45 grams, decoction of water for tea. Pathological night sweating Night sweating is a common symptom of tuberculosis and hyperthyroidism, treatment should pay attention to the identification of clear and treatment of the original disease to avoid misdiagnosis. Hyperthyroidism: due to hyperthyroidism, excessive secretion of thyroxine, increased metabolic rate, manifested as increased neuroexcitability, sympathetic overexcitation can appear fear of heat, excessive sweating, there are also night sweats. Diabetes: The main reason for excessive sweating in diabetic patients is plant nerve dysfunction, sympathetic excitation, and increased sweat gland secretion; secondly, the increased metabolic rate of blood sugar is also one of the reasons for excessive sweating in diabetic patients. Tuberculosis: night sweating is one of the symptoms of tuberculosis intoxication, which is the result of the stimulation of the central nervous system by the toxins of tuberculosis bacteria and their metabolites, leading to the dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. Tumor: Night sweats are also one of the common symptoms of tumor patients. In addition, hypertension, hypoglycemia, systemic lupus erythematosus, endocarditis and other diseases as well as postoperative weakness, mental tension and psychological stress may cause night sweats. 5, absolute sweating refers to the critical condition, when the right qi is weak, yang qi is about to escape, sweating dripping more than once, mostly accompanied by shortness of breath, cold extremities, weak pulse, sometimes absent and other critical symptoms, is the image of yang qi will be extinct, mostly seen in patients with heart failure, deficiency. It can lead to the death of yin or yang, so it is also called dehumidification. Sweating when the true qi is about to be extinguished is one of the symptoms when the yin and yang are separated when the patient is critically ill. Suwen – Diagnosis of the end of the Classic: “The sweat is out, and if it comes out, death.” Ling Shu – meridians: “Six Yang Qi is extinct, then Yin and Yang are separated from each other, away from the coup d’état, extinct sweat is out.” The following types are commonly seen: the qi is extinct, sweating like pearls, not flowing with the body; the qi is dispersed, sweating like oil, gasping for breath; the deficiency is more than cold sweat. 6, closed sweat How to move without sweating, but the body is hot and dry. Or because of bathing or sweating suddenly blowing wind, blowing air conditioning, fan, etc., resulting in pore occlusion, sweat can not come out, collectively known as closed sweat. The closed sweat person can use ginger, cinnamon stick, ephedra 15 grams each boiled water poured into a tall bucket soak feet, wearing thick clothes, drink ginger soup water, head wear a cotton hat, let the sweat from inside the pores to open. If the pores are clear, the sweating will be cured. Usually pay attention to the bath to dry the body, do not blow dry the body. Don’t blow the air conditioner suddenly when you sweat a lot. Practice more chiropractic adjustments to enhance your own positive energy. When you write to me again in the future, please specify what kind of sweat you have while stating your own symptoms, so that I can more accurately judge the body’s situation and give you the right regimen.