Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Pediatric False Sweat

The Chinese medicine treatment of pediatric false sweating can nourish yin and reduce fire if it is caused by yin deficiency and fire exuberance, benefit qi and consolidate the surface if the lung guards are not solid, and replenish qi and blood if there is insufficient qi and blood. 1. Yin deficiency and fire: manifested as insomnia, mouth and tongue sores, heat in the hands and feet, hot flashes, night sweats (sweating abnormally after going to sleep, waking up to stop sweating), red tongue with little moss and other symptoms. Treatment should nourish yin and reduce fire, can use Chinese wolfberry and chrysanthemum dihuang soup with subtraction, commonly used Chinese herbs are Chinese wolfberry, chrysanthemum, ripened dihuang, Chinese yam, cornelian cherry, poria, mudanpi, zedoary and so on. 2. Lung Wei is not solid: manifested as sweating and fear of wind, sweating seriously after activities, mental fatigue, usually easy to catch a cold, less colorful, limb weakness, pale tongue, thin white moss and other symptoms. Treatment should benefit the qi and solidify the surface, Chinese medicine prescription selection of Yu Ping Feng San plus subtraction, commonly used Chinese herbs are astragalus, windproof, atractylodes, etc.. 3. Qi and blood insufficiency: manifested as mental fatigue, physical weakness, spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the day, aggravated by sweating with slight movement), shortness of breath, yellowish color, withered hair, dry skin, insomnia and dreaminess. Treatment should benefit qi and replenish blood, the formula is Eight Treasures Soup plus subtractions, commonly used Chinese herbs are Poria, Atractylodes macrocephala, Codonopsis, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae, Angelica Sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae Praeparatae, White Peony, etc. Pediatric false sweating should be treated under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner to avoid aggravating the condition.