If excessive sweating is caused by disease, you can select the appropriate acupoints to treat sweating by recognizing and treating the disease, and commonly used acupoints are Guanyuan, Qihai, Ashigaru, Sanyinjiao and so on.
Sweating in traditional Chinese medicine can be divided into self-sweating (involuntary sweating during the day, sweating is aggravated by the slightest movement) and night sweating (sweating abnormally after going to sleep, and sweating stops after waking up) two kinds of sweating. Self-sweating refers to frequent sweating when waking up, especially after activities, mostly seen in qi deficiency and yang deficiency, the treatment is to replenish the qi and yang, the optional acupuncture points related to the yuan, qihai, foot Sanli, lung Yu, spleen Yu, kidney Yu and other acupoints.
Night sweating refers to sweating during sleep and stopping when waking up, which is mostly seen in yin deficiency, and the treatment is to nourish yin to stop sweating, with points such as Sanyinjiao, Taixi, Yin Qie, Zhaohai, and Blood Sea.
Although there is no direct antiperspiratory point in the human body acupuncture points, it can be used to stop sweating by recognizing and treating the basic mechanism of sweating, formulating the treatment method, and choosing the corresponding acupuncture points to achieve the purpose of antiperspiratory. If you want to use acupuncture to treat sweating, you should be treated by a professional acupuncturist and avoid self-treatment.