What does night sweats mean?

Night sweats is mainly the name of some diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, and it is a main characteristic symptom of abnormal sweat glands. Whenever people inject or sweat, the main thing that comes out of the armpit sweat is vomiting or diarrhea. Night sweats are relatively tight and have a deeper understanding. Up to now, the main clinical manifestation of scars caused by kidney yin deficiency is the outflow of sweat during sleep. There are mainly some types of mild night sweats, moderate night sweats and severe night sweats.

Night sweats can be divided into physiological and pathological types according to their nature. The causes of night sweats are mainly caused by some thyroid, diabetes, tuberculosis diseases and some tumors. Therefore, night sweats must be treated in time in life.

Night sweats is a disease name in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a disease characterized by abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up. "Dao" means stealing. Ancient doctors used the sneaky activities of thieves at night to describe the disease that every time people fall asleep or just close their eyes and are about to fall asleep, sweat secretes like a thief.

Historical Origins: Traditional Chinese Medicine has had a relatively deep understanding of night sweats for a long time. In the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, which was written during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was called "night sweats". "Qing" means sleeping. There is an idiom called "ignore sleep and forget food", which means that he does not care about sleeping and forgets to eat. Obviously, "night sweats" means sweating while sleeping. In the Han Dynasty, the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing used the vivid name "night sweats" to name the disease in which people sweat in their sleep in his book "Golden Chamber". Since then, successive generations of doctors have continued to use this name. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that night sweats are mostly caused by kidney yin deficiency. [1]

Among patients with clinical manifestations of night sweats, some sweat as soon as they fall asleep, some sweat after falling asleep at midnight, and some sweat as soon as they close their eyes for a while. The amount of sweat produced varies greatly.

The above is an introduction to night sweats. There are also some common phenomena in menopause that cause night sweats. So, the causes of night sweats are mainly caused by some thyroid and diabetes, tuberculosis diseases and some tumors, so you must treat night sweats in time in your life. Night sweats in daily life also mainly affect people’s health and life, so you must treat them in time in daily life.