What causes sweating?

When the human body is in a resting state, one should not feel sweating, but only feel the skin is slightly moist. If the skin feels too dry or too moist, it is abnormal. Some people sweat a lot and their whole body sweats easily. We say that in addition to obese people, people with qi deficiency also tend to sweat, and not only when the weather is hot, but even in the cool and cold autumn and winter, as long as they do a little activity, they will be covered in sweat.

1. Reasons for sweating

Excessive sweating can be divided into physiological and pathological. For example, sweating during hot weather or heavy exercise is a physiological phenomenon. There are two most common pathological causes of excessive sweating: one is night sweats, which occur when you sweat unconsciously during sleep at night. The other is spontaneous sweating, which occurs during the day, without sweating due to labor, thick clothes or heat, or sweating profusely after a little exercise. The main cause of spontaneous sweating is physical weakness or after a serious illness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by "lung qi deficiency and weak Wei Yang". The treatment should be "tonifying the lung and replenishing qi."

2. What to do if you sweat easily

1. People with qi deficiency should pay attention to their daily diet and eat more foods that replenish qi and strengthen the spleen. For example, pumpkin, yam, lotus seeds, soybeans, coix seed, shiitake mushrooms, beef, glutinous rice, millet, longan, etc. have the effects of replenishing qi and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

2. You can make tea with astragalus and wolfberry, which is very effective in replenishing qi and nourishing blood; longan and red date tea are also good teas for nourishing qi and blood.

3. Use 50 grams of yam, 150 grams of japonica rice, and 6 dates, add appropriate amount of water and cook porridge together. Drink it every night to replenish qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach.

4. There is also a porridge suitable for drinking in the morning: Boil 30 grams of astragalus in water, it is best to boil it twice, and combine the water from the two boils to cook millet porridge. Astragalus is a qi-replenishing agent, and millet also has the effect of replenishing qi. Drink it every morning, and generally sweating will be significantly reduced after a week. The dosage of Astragalus is generally between 25 and 50 grams. If you sweat less, 25 grams is enough. If you sweat more, you can increase it to 50 grams. It should be noted that while replenishing qi, you should eat less vegetables such as water spinach and white radish, as these vegetables have the effect of depleting qi.

3. Antiperspirant Medicinal Diet

1. Lily porridge

[Effects] Moisturizes the lungs and stops sweating, suitable for excessive sweating due to lung heat.

[Ingredients] 20 grams of lily, 50 grams of polished rice, and a little white sugar.

[Usage] Wash the lily and cook it with rice. When it is cooked, add sugar and cook for another 10 minutes.

Serve immediately and eat until full.

【Lily】Sweet, slightly cold. Moistens the lungs and relieves cough, calms the mind and soothes the nerves.

2. Yarrow Porridge

[Effects] Strengthens the exterior and stops sweating, used for spontaneous sweating due to deficiency of the exterior.

[Ingredients] 20 grams of tragali, 50 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

[Usage] Decoction the tragali, use the juice to cook rice into porridge, add sugar for seasoning and drink warm.

【Traditional Chinese tomentosa】sweet, slightly warm. Replenish Qi and raise Yang, consolidate the exterior and stop sweating.