If night sweating is recognized as kidney yin deficiency, Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan or Zuo Gui Wan can be taken. The former can be taken for Yin deficiency and fire exuberance; the latter can be taken for true Yin deficiency.
When night sweating is characterized by yin deficiency and fire exuberance, with symptoms such as heartburn, night sweating, tidal fever (a burst of heat, feeling that the heat is coming from inside the bones to the outside), and lumbar pain and soreness, the treatment should be based on nourishing the yin and lowering the fire, and Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan can be chosen for the treatment, with common medicines such as Zhi Mou, Huang Bai, Shan Yao, Shan Yu, Shan Yu Mian, Poria, Zedoary, Mudan Pi, and Shijie Di Huang Wan.
Night sweating is identified as true yin insufficiency, with lumbar and knee weakness, dizziness, night sweating, spermatorrhea, dry mouth and tongue as the main symptoms, the treatment to nourish yin and tonify the kidney as the main, can choose Zuo Gui Pill treatment, common medicines are ripened dihuang, Chinese yam, Chinese wolfberry, cornelian cherry, cow’s knee, cuscuta, deer gum, turtle gum, etc..
The adverse effects and contraindications of the above two drugs are not clear. If you have symptoms, you should take the medication under the guidance of a professional physician, and do not take the medication blindly on your own, so as to avoid delaying the condition or producing adverse reactions.