In medicine, sweating in the waking state is called spontaneous sweating; sweating during sleep is called night sweating. Night sweating is the name of a disease in traditional Chinese medicine, which is characterized by abnormal sweating after going to sleep, and then sweating after waking up. The meaning of “stealing” is that ancient medical practitioners used the word “thief” to describe the condition as a sneaky activity in the night every day. Whenever people go to sleep, or just close their eyes and go to sleep, the sweat leaks out secretly like a thief. Self-sweating is sweating for no reason, involuntarily, usually in the daytime is not hot and no exercise environment. Night sweating is sweating while asleep and stops when you wake up. Self-sweating is common in qi deficiency, qi and blood insufficiency, there are chronic diseases, often accompanied by weakness, shortness of breath, fear of cold and other symptoms of yang qi deficiency, night sweating more than the deficiency of fire, it is tuberculosis, hyperthyroidism, diabetes mellitus, etc. common symptoms. In addition, sweating is also a typical symptom of female menopause. In the clinic, we have also encountered such a lung cancer patient, whose other symptoms are not obvious, but the upper half of his body is particularly sweaty. There are also people who love sweating but are not found to have other diseases, such as this is mostly caused by the nature of the body. The examination of the whole body sweating after sleeping: In the clinic, if you see a patient with night sweating, first of all, we should ask about the medical history, the cause of the disease, the clinical symptoms, so as to clarify whether it is physiological or pathologic; secondly, we should carry out the routine blood test, urine routine, bacterial culture test, tuberculin test, chest X-ray, cerebrospinal fluid examination, etc., so as to identify the night sweating caused by infectious diseases or tuberculosis, so as to clarify the cause of the night sweating and the severity of the disease and provide a basis for the next step of treatment. Provide basis for the next step of treatment. Suggestion: First of all, it is necessary to check whether there are other diseases, only after controlling these primary diseases, the problem of sweating can be solved. For people with excessive sweating for which there is no known cause, the doctor will usually ask if the sweating has been present since childhood, or if it is a recent development. If the sweating has been present since childhood, it is most likely to be inborn and there is no need to worry too much about it. However, if excessive sweating is seriously affecting your work life, you may consider minimally invasive thoracic surgery to cut off the part of the sympathetic nerves that causes excessive sweating.