The three volt days are really unpleasant, the body sweats too much, a sweat smell makes people feel embarrassed, so people hide in the air-conditioned room, or immediately after sweating to shower, there are people who use antiperspirant in excess and frequently. But you know what? You’re trying to keep yourself from sweating in the wrong way, in fact, proper sweating in summer is more beneficial to health. There are various ways to sweat, but which is the right way to sweat?
Sweat has a little secret
Sweat is a fluid secreted by the sweat glands. The sweating caused by heat stimulation due to increased outside temperature or increased heat production in the body is called perceptual sweating. The sweating area is widely distributed in all parts of the body, especially in the forehead, neck, front and back of the trunk, waist, back of the hand and forearm; followed by the neck, side of the trunk and most of the limbs; again the inner side of the femur and the armpit; and at least the palms and feet.
Sweating centers are distributed in various parts of the central nervous system, and normal people unconsciously evaporate about 600 to 700 ml of water in 24 hours. For an adult weighing 68 kg, this is equivalent to 4 kg of sweat. If the sweat glands do not function properly, when the body is in a state of high heat, they cannot play the role of secreting sweat, and the person will have a high fever, which may also cause damage to the heart, brain, liver, kidneys and blood system, which shows the importance of sweat glands to regulate the body temperature.
Which type of sweating do you do, active sweating? Or passive sweating?
Have you ever experienced this? When you go to and from work and wait for the bus, you are hot and sweaty in the sweltering weather; or you encounter a problem and your forehead is slightly oozing with sweat; or you sweat through your clothes when you are walking fast on your way to work.
This sweat some out of the way there are passive, there are also active, the first few are passive, the last is active. Let’s listen to what the experts say: sweating due to exercise is active sweating, sweating due to weather, environment or psychological stress is called passive sweating. Data show that whether in the city or in the countryside, the proportion of people who can exercise regularly is only 28.2 percent. This shows that modern people really lack exercise, and most people sweat in a passive way.
To put it differently, traditional Chinese medicine also has a distinction between dynamic sweating and static sweating.
According to Chinese medicine, sweat is the fluid of the heart. Sweating due to the weather and environment is considered static sweating, which is equivalent to passive sweating. The sweating that occurs when the body is at rest is called “dynamic sweating” in TCM theory, but it is prone to problems that require attention, such as spontaneous sweating and night sweating. The sweating is not due to hot weather, sweating medicine and other stimulating factors, and easily fatigue, cold, panic, especially fear of wind and cold, this is called spontaneous sweating, is a manifestation of qi deficiency. The night sweating is abnormal after going to sleep, but after waking up, the sweating will stop, called night sweating, is the performance of Yin deficiency.
From sweating parts to see health
1, left and right half of the body or the upper and lower half of the body sweating, mostly seen in rheumatism, hemiplegia patients, sometimes is also a signal of stroke near the body, such as some elderly half body sweating, half of the body no sweat, this time must be careful of stroke.
2, forehead sweating sweating is limited to the forehead, if the amount of sweating is small, and no other symptoms, is a normal phenomenon. If it happens to the patient, it may be a sign of aggravation of the disease.
3, sweating on both sides of the nose is mostly a sign of lung deficiency.
4, Sweating confined between the two breasts may be due to mental fatigue, physical exertion and injury to the heart and spleen.
5, sweating from the genitals, sweating limited to the genital area, often associated with kidney disease.
6, sweating of the hands and feet, sweating of the hands and feet and other extremities is mostly caused by blood deficiency and Yang deficiency. If the sweating of the hands and feet is caused by mental tension, it is normal.
The smell and color of sweat also has a great deal to learn
1, if the sweat emits the smell of urine, sweat dry will also leave crystals on the skin, common in uremic patients.
2, sweat with a special fishy smell, most often seen in cirrhosis of the liver.
3, there is also sweat wafting fragrance, common in the signs of diabetic patients.
4, if the sweat appears yellow, mostly due to a high concentration of a substance called bilirubin in the blood, mainly seen in liver and biliary diseases, such as acute and chronic hepatitis, cholecystitis, cirrhosis, etc.. In addition, excessive consumption of carrots, oranges, citrus oranges and other fruits and vegetables, can also appear temporary yellow sweat.
5, white sweat from traditional Chinese medicine, white belongs to the lungs, lung color is exposed then appear white sweat, mostly due to the heart and lung Yang deficiency, often related to the weakness of the heart and lung function. Sometimes, severe pain (such as stomach pain) can also cause white sweat dripping.
6, if the sweat appears red, mostly related to endocrine dysfunction, but also may be a part of the body in the bleeding. However, taking chemical preparations such as potassium iodide can also cause red sweat to appear.
7, there is also if the sweat becomes lime green, suggesting that there is bile leakage, such as acute septic cholangitis.
Active sweating is the health
The same sweating, when the weather is hot, passive sweating is also sweating, why not active sweating? The key passive sweating is not healthy, active sweating is healthy. Experts explain that passive sweating is only sweating in the superficial layer of the body, such as steam sauna; active sweating is the real deep surface sweating, which means that people sweat from the inside out, such as sports sweating. This active sweating is the body’s self-regulation, sweating not only makes people feel comfortable, but also can play the following 8 major roles.
1, expel toxins
Exercise sweating can accelerate the body’s fluid circulation and metabolic process, the body’s accumulation of lactic acid, urea, ammonia and other toxins expelled.
2, control blood pressure
Exercise sweating can expand capillaries, accelerate blood circulation, increase the elasticity of the blood vessel wall, to reduce blood pressure.
3.Promote digestion
Exercise sweating can regulate the lack of qi and blood running, promote the impact of digestion, eating, sleeping are very good.
4, prevent osteoporosis
Sweating is conducive to the effective retention of calcium and prevent osteoporosis.
5, enhance memory
Exercise sweating will have a positive positive effect on students, memory, concentration can be substantially improved.
6, skin care and beauty
People who always do not sweat, the skin metabolism is slow, some waste is difficult to discharge. Sweating can clean the pores and achieve the effect of beauty and skin care.
7, weight loss
When the body exercise and reach a certain intensity, fat will be burned into heat, through sweat out of the body.
8, make men more attractive
Researchers say that the smell of male sweat can make women happy and feel mentally relaxed.
How to get a “health sweat”?
Modern living conditions, we have become lazy, like to sleep, do not love sports, the day a hot air conditioning is our “life-saving medicine”, without it we can not seem to survive. Experts say, three days of sweating will get sick, but for people who do not like to sweat or do not have time to exercise, how to get more active sweat? The experts suggest that it is worth trying the following tricks in life.
1, drink some hot water before exercise
Drink some hot water before exercise, let the pores into the state of storage, and then exercise for a while, you can let the pores all open, sweat out through, a pass. But after exercise should not immediately blowing air conditioning, fans or a cool bath, otherwise the body is prone to disease.
2, the smart use of ginger to promote sweating
The ancients said, winter eat radish, summer eat ginger. Eat ginger can make the blood vessels expand, blood circulation accelerated, prompting the body’s pores open, so that not only the excess heat away, but also the body’s germs, cold together with out.
People who have to work in an air-conditioned environment can insist on some ginger water, such as tea with ginger slices bubble water, ginger red dates water, etc., to promote sweating.
3, soak feet with hot water
In about 40 ℃ water temperature bath or foot soak, conducive to body sweating, relieve fatigue.
4.Sunbathing for 15 minutes
Summer sun, for people who do not love sports, is a good way to actively sweat, 9-10 a.m. and 4-5 p.m. every day, about 15 minutes in the sun, and do some simple stretching exercises, can make the body energy is gradually activated.
5, do not blow air conditioning for a long time
Long-term in the air-conditioned room will lead to the human sweat glands off, affecting the normal metabolism and secretion, and long periods of sitting still without exercise will cause the neck movement balance imbalance, so that the neck muscles, nerve involvement, over time will lead to local cervical spondylosis, neck stiffness, stiffness, pain, etc. are relatively common phenomenon. People who have to stay in the air-conditioned room for a long time can drink more warm water, which can also effectively promote sweating, which is also very helpful to eliminate heat.
In short, in addition to people suffering from heart failure and other serious diseases, most people are suitable for active sweating, but according to their own physical condition to choose the most suitable active sweating way. It should be reminded that active sweating for health, not the more sweat the better, do not make yourself too tired and tired, the best in moderation. Special attention should be paid to avoid drinking iced drinks after sweating, to properly supplement some warm water or light salt water, a small number of intake.