Symptoms of spontaneous sweating

Spontaneous sweating is mainly a TCM term, characterized by the ability to perceive sweating on one’s own, unlike night sweats. Night sweats are sweating at night after falling asleep and stopping when you wake up, and you don’t notice it yourself. Spontaneous sweating generally occurs during the day when you are awake, often without triggers such as strenuous exercise, and may occur without activity or even with only light activity. Chinese medicine believes that spontaneous sweating mainly belongs to Yang deficiency or Qi deficiency, which is manifested by the lack of consolidation of Wei Qi and body deficiency sweating, and can be treated with Yu Ping Feng, Huang Qi Oral Liquid, etc. Western medicine believes that spontaneous sweating is mainly related to plant nerve dysfunction. The plant nerve governs sweat secretion. If the excitability of the plant nerve function is increased, resulting in hyperfunction of the sweat glands and causing profuse sweating, it may be related to the patient’s mental, neurological, and endocrine factors, including hyperthyroidism and diabetes, or abnormal sex hormone levels during menopause.