Chinese medicine treatment for night sweats Night sweats is the name of a medical condition in Chinese medicine, characterized by abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping upon awakening. The word “night sweating” means stealing, and ancient medical practitioners used the word “night sweating” to describe the disease that occurs when people fall asleep, or when they close their eyes and are about to fall asleep, sweat leaks out secretly like a thief. Chinese medicine has a deep understanding of night sweats, which was called “bed sweats” in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, which was written during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period. The “bed” refers to sleep, and there is an idiom called “waste bed and forget food”, which means that you can’t think about sleeping and forgetting to eat. It is obvious that “bed sweat” means sweating while sleeping. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, used the term “night sweats” to name the condition of sweating during sleep in his book “Jin Kui Yao”. Since then, generations of doctors have used this name, and Chinese medicine believes that night sweats are mostly due to kidney yin deficiency. Clinical manifestations of night sweats, some of the patients as soon as they fall asleep, some of the night sweats after falling asleep to the middle of the night, some of the night sweats just after closing the eyes for a while. The amount of sweating varies greatly. The cause of the disease 1, kidney Yin deficiency: deficiency is Yang Sheng, false heat within, Yin Qi empty, sleep is the Wei Qi into the Yin, the table is not guarded, the muscle surface is not dense, the glory of the fire alone in the outside, steam heat, forcing the fluid to leak outside the sweat. When you wake up, the qi is fixed in the table, the xuanfu is closed and the sweating stops. 2.Tuberculosis. Light and heavy typing According to the clinical manifestations of night sweats patients, can be divided into light, medium and heavy three. Light type night sweats Most patients with light type night sweats are prone to sweating when they are deep in bed, or at 5:00 am or 1 to 2 hours before waking up, sweating less, and only feel slightly wet after waking up with sweat all over the body or certain parts of the body, and no sweat is released again after waking up. Generally there is no uncomfortable feeling. Medium type night sweats Most of the patients with medium type night sweats can leak sweat soon after going to sleep, or even make their sleepwear wet, and then stop sweating after waking up and wipe the sweat off their bodies, and then go back to sleep and stop sweating. In this type of night sweats, the patient often has a sense of baking heat, hot as sweat, and sometimes a feeling of dry mouth and throat after waking up. Heavy night sweats In heavy night sweats, sweat is very easy to escape. Soon after going to sleep or just close your eyes when you are about to go to sleep, that is, there is a large amount of sweat night gush, sweat can be awakened, after waking up sweat can suddenly converge. When you go back to sleep, you can sweat again. Sweating, sweat often with a light salty smell, or sweating at the same time mixed with sweat odor. The sweating can make the bedding wet, not several times a night to replace the sleeping clothes can not sleep peacefully, there are individual patients with heavy evidence can make the bedding wet, thin bedding or with a mat, sweat can be printed on the bed board sweat stains. These patients are often accompanied by a pronounced feeling of baking heat, and their mood also shows irritability, dry mouth after sweating, and a preference for cool water. Usually, it may be accompanied by low fever or hot flashes, five heartburn, red cheekbones, dizziness, emaciation, fatigue, dark urine, low urine volume, and dry stools. Light and medium-sized night sweats do not cause too much damage to the body, but heavy night sweats often worsen over time and develop into “desiccation”, seriously threatening the patient’s health and life safety. The nature of the division 1, physiological night sweats during the childhood, the skin is very young and tender, contains more water, capillary rich, metabolism is vigorous, plant nerve regulation function is not yet sound, easy to sweat when activity. If children are too active before going to sleep, the organism’s organs are metabolically active, which can increase the body’s heat production, and during sleep, the skin vasodilation, sweat gland secretion increases, sweating, in order to facilitate heat dissipation. Secondly, eating before bedtime can enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase secretion of gastric juice, and increase secretion of sweat glands, which can cause children to sweat more after sleep, especially within the first 2 hours of sleep. In addition, if the room temperature is too high, or the covers are too thick, or when using electric blankets, it can cause heavy sweating during sleep. 2, pathological night sweats Some children sweat mainly in the upper half of the night after going to sleep, which is often caused by low blood calcium. Low calcium tends to increase sympathetic excitability, as if opening the “faucet” of the sweat glands, which is especially common in children with rickets. However, night sweats are not unique to rickets, but should be analyzed based on the child’s feeding and outdoor activities, as well as blood calcium, blood phosphorus and wrist bone x-ray to determine if the child has active rickets. Night sweats in children with tuberculosis are characterized by sweating throughout the night. In addition to this, there are symptoms such as flushing, hypothermia, loss of appetite, and mood changes. Examination of blood sedimentation, anti-tuberculosis antibodies and chest X-ray often reveals abnormalities. One thing to note is that detailed examination of the neck for enlarged lymph nodes is extremely valuable in the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis. In summary, any cause or disease that affects the body’s thermoregulatory center and increases sympathetic excitability can cause night sweats in children. As a parent, you should carefully observe your child and make a comprehensive analysis before making a judgment, not blindly taking medication to avoid adverse consequences. The more common types of sweating in Chinese medicine are spontaneous sweating and night sweating. In modern medicine, diseases such as hyperthyroidism, rheumatic fever, shock, tuberculosis, hypoglycemia, and plant nerve dysfunction can also cause abnormal sweating. In Chinese medicine, there are three types of sweating: disharmony of Ying and Wei, deficiency of lung and spleen, and heat stagnation within the body. If the Ying and Wei are not in harmony, sweating is often associated with bad wind, body aches and pains, sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and is common in people who suffer from wind and cold, or in people who often suffer from insomnia and whose sweating is aggravated by mood swings. The pulse is slow and the fur is thin and white. The treatment is to harmonize the Ying and Wei, and can be used to harmonize the soup: Gui Zhi 12 grams, Bai Shao 20 grams, Huang Qi 30 grams, Baicalin 12 grams, Dang Shen 30 grams, Bai Zhi 12 grams, Bai Zhu 15 grams, Fu Ling 15 grams, Ge Gen 15 grams, Chai Hu 12 grams, Chen Pi 12 grams, Han Xia 12 grams, Fang Feng 12 grams, 3 slices of ginger, 5 jujubes, 10 grams of roasted licorice, decoction with water. Jianzhong Pill and Yu Pingfeng are taken orally. Lung and spleen deficiency, sweating and vicious wind, easy to catch cold, white face, fatigue, shortness of breath, sweating more after activity. The tongue is pale and the pulse is weak. For this evidence, it is appropriate to tonify the spleen and lung, benefit the qi and consolidate the surface. Ginseng Fu Pill and Ginseng Clam Pill are taken orally. Heat stagnation within the body, often manifested as steaming and sweating, thirst for cold drinks, red face and cheek heat, irritability, or both fever, pain in the limbs, constipation. The tongue is red with yellow coating and the pulse is large. The treatment is to clear the internal heat, can be used to clear the soup: 30 grams of double flowers, 30 grams of forsythia, 15 grams of chrysanthemum, 12 grams of mulberry leaf, 12 grams of scutellaria, 12 grams of yellow cypress, 20 grams of gong ying, 15 grams of daidian, 30 grams of gypsum, 15 grams of Zhi Mu, 12 grams of bamboo leaf, 10 grams of yellow lily of the valley, 10 grams of lotus seed heart, 20 grams of raw earth, 15 grams of yuan shen, 12 grams of dandan bark, 10 grams of roasted licorice, decoction with water. Fever Inflammation and Defeat Pill are taken orally. The clinical classification of night sweats is mostly divided into two types: deficiency of heart blood and yin deficiency and fire. Insufficient heart blood is often manifested as sweating when sleeping and stopping when waking up, palpitations, less sleep, less color, shortness of breath and fatigue. The tongue is light with thin coating and the pulse is weak. The treatment is to nourish the blood, nourish the heart and astringent sweat, can be used to nourish the heart soup: 12 grams of cypress seed, 30 grams of sour date, 12 grams of Yuan Zhi, 15 grams of Acacia, 30 grams of nightshade, 10 grams of deer horn gum, 6 grams of tortoise shell gum, 12 grams of maitake, 15 grams of angelica, 20 grams of white peony, 20 grams of raw earth, 3 grams of Huang Lian, 15 grams of Fu Shen, 20 grams of Codonopsis, 30 grams of Astragalus, 6 grams of licorice, decoction with water. An Shen Wan and Gui Shen Wan are taken orally. Yin deficiency and fire, often with hot flashes and night sweats, false annoyance and little sleep, irritable heat in the five hearts, and thinning of the body. Irregular menstruation in women and dreamy emission in men. The tongue is red with little coating, and the pulse is thin and stringy. The treatment is to nourish Yin and lower fire, and can be used to nourish Yin soup: Huang Jing 15g, Yu Zhu 12g, Sha Shen 15g, Mai Dong 15g, Tian Dong 12g, Mulberry 20g, Angelica Sinensis 15g, Sheng Di 20g, Shu Di 20g, Huang Bai 10g, Baicalin 10g, Huang Lian 3g, Huang Qi 30g, Bamboo Leaf 12g, Dry Lotus Grass 15g, Licorice 6g, decoction with water. Zhi Bai Wan and Pearl Pill are taken orally.