There is a difference in the causes, symptoms, and treatments of spontaneous sweating in Yang deficiency (involuntary sweating during the day, aggravated by the slightest movement of the sweat) and spontaneous sweating in Qi deficiency. Yang deficiency self-sweating refers to the body’s lack of yang qi and leads to self-sweating, and the usual diet of cold, cold, qi deficiency further development leads to yang deficiency are directly related. Sweating due to qi deficiency is often caused by physical weakness, external attack, and post-disease disorders. There is a difference between the causes of spontaneous sweating due to Qi deficiency and spontaneous sweating due to Yang deficiency. In addition to the symptoms of spontaneous sweating, the symptoms of Yang deficiency are often accompanied by coldness, cold hands and feet, lumbar and knee tenderness (a feeling of soreness and weakness in the lumbar and knee regions), and abdominal coldness and pain. Qi deficiency self-sweating will mostly be manifested as sweating and bad wind, sweating after activity is obvious, easy to catch a cold, weakness of the limbs and other symptoms are more prominent. There is a difference between the symptoms of spontaneous sweating due to Qi deficiency and spontaneous sweating due to Yang deficiency. Self-sweating due to Qi deficiency is often treated with medicines that benefit the qi and strengthen the surface, such as Yu Ping Feng San. Yang deficiency spontaneous sweating is more often treated with prescriptions that warm yang and consolidate the epidermis (warming yang qi and consolidating the muscular surface), such as Astragalus and Jianzhong Tang. The treatment principles and prescriptions for the two conditions are also different. The adverse effects of the above prescriptions are not known. Patients are advised to consult the doctor in time and standardize the treatment if they feel unwell.