Sweating is a traditional Chinese medicine saying, Chinese medicine believes that sweating may be caused by qi deficiency or yin deficiency, and can also be divided into two types of self-sweating and night sweating. Specifically as follows: 1, spontaneous sweating: refers to the general waking up to be able to consciously sweat, a little bit of activity may be sweating profusely, is generally a qi deficiency, corresponding to Western medicine, cardiopulmonary diseases or neurological diseases. The main manifestation of the body is relatively weak, often lazy gas less speech, feel tired limbs, in the waking state a little movement will be a lot of sweat; 2, night sweats: generally is to fall asleep at night on the sweat, woke up after the sweat stopped, in Chinese medicine belongs to the night sweats, is caused by yin deficiency, the so-called yin deficiency is the internal heat, often infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis is prone to night sweats. From the perspective of modern medicine, sweating is mainly due to the abnormal excitability of the vegetative nerve function, causing the innervated sweat glands to secrete more sweat. The sweating that occurs in this way belongs to the primary, may be caused by the underlying disease, the more common such as endocrine diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, diabetes mellitus, hyperadrenocorticism can cause hyperhidrosis.