What are night sweats and spontaneous sweating?

Everyone sweats in their daily lives. This is something everyone knows. Especially when the weather is hot, it would be strange if you didn’t sweat. Of course, in traditional Chinese medicine, there are different definitions of human sweating, such as night sweats and spontaneous sweating in clinical practice, which make many people feel confused. So the question is, what are night sweats and spontaneous sweating?

1. Spontaneous sweating

Sweating is common and worsens after activity. It is usually caused by Qi deficiency and weak Wei Yang, so people often feel tired, short of breath and chills.

Generally speaking, Yupingfeng Powder can be used for treatment.

2. Night sweats

As the name suggests, sweating secretly means sweating when you fall asleep and stopping sweating when you wake up.

It is generally caused by Yin deficiency, which will lead to Yang hyperactivity, so people often experience hot flashes in the five parts of the body, red cheeks, insomnia, dry mouth and tongue, etc.

Liuwei Dihuang Pills are generally used for treatment. Let me explain here that many people who don't know much about medicine think that Liuwei Dihuang Pills are used to replenish the kidneys when they hear someone is taking them. The human kidneys are divided into yin and yang, and Liuwei Dihuang Pills replenish kidney yin. Some people with liver yin deficiency will take Liuwei Dihuang Pills to replenish kidney yin. Why? Because the liver and kidneys have the same origin.

Should Yin deficiency be treated promptly? Of course it should. Yin deficiency will not only lead to Yang hyperactivity, but over time it will cause Yang to disperse, leading to Yang deficiency. Yin and Yang are interdependent.

3. Stop sweating

The condition is critical and the patient is sweating profusely. It is usually caused by loss of yin and yang, which means the patient is about to die.

4. War sweat

The whole body feels chills and shivers, followed by sweating. It is a turning point in the struggle between good and evil in the body and the development of disease.

Sweat can be divided into cold sweat and hot sweat. Cold sweat is generally caused by Yang deficiency and insufficient Wei Qi; hot sweat is generally caused by exogenous wind-heat or internal heat.