Night sweating in children (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, sweating stops after waking up) “one move to remove” is not reasonable, children’s night sweating needs to be treated symptomatically, night sweating is mostly caused by yin deficiency, the treatment needs to nourish yin to restrain sweating (by replenishing the fluid to stop sweating).
Night sweating is a disease characterized by sweating after going to sleep and stopping sweating after waking up, which is mostly related to yin deficiency. For children, the accompanying symptoms are commonly five heart heat (heat in the heart of the hands and feet, and conscious of the heart and chest), dry eyes, swelling and pain, and dryness of the mouth and tongue, etc. The treatment needs to nourish yin and restrain sweating. Treatment needs to nourish yin and astringent sweating, and some yin tonic medicines can be chosen to be combined with astringent sweating medicines.
Commonly used yin tonic medicines include bei sha shen, wolfberry, lily of the valley, mai dong, etc. Commonly used astringent medicines include oyster, ephedra root, etc. A representative formula for night sweating is Angelica and Six Huangs Tang, which consists of Angelica sinensis and the “Six Huangs”, which are Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Cyperi, Rhizoma Coptidis, Radix Astragali, Radix Scutellariae, and Radix Rehmanniae Praeparatae.
The above medicines are cold, and children with weak spleens and stomachs are advised to have their night sweats diagnosed by a Chinese medicine practitioner to determine if the night sweats are caused by a deficiency of yin, and then take the medicines as prescribed by the doctor, rather than taking them on their own.