In medicine, sweating when awake is called "spontaneous sweating"; Sweating during sleep is called "night sweats". Night sweats is a syndrome name of traditional Chinese medicine, which is characterized by abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up. "Stealing" means stealing. Ancient doctors described this disease as thieves sneaking around every night. Whenever people fall asleep, or just close their eyes and fall asleep, sweat leaks out like a thief.
Chinese medicine has a long-standing understanding of night sweats, which is called "sleeping sweat" in Huangdi Neijing during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Sleeping" means sleeping. There is an idiom called "forgetting to eat and sleep", which means forgetting to eat and sleep without sleeping. Obviously, "sleeping sweat" means sweating while sleeping. Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in the Han Dynasty, named people sweating in their sleep with "night sweats" in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber. Since then, doctors of all ages have used some names. Up to now, both doctors and people in other industries know what kind of symptoms night sweats are.
Some patients have night sweats as soon as they fall asleep, some sleep until midnight, and some just close their eyes for a while. The amount of sweat varies greatly. According to the clinical manifestations of night sweats, it can be divided into three types: mild, moderate and severe.
Most patients with mild night sweats are prone to sweat when they are in deep sleep, or at 5 am or 1 ~ 2 hours before waking up, and sweat less. Only when I woke up, I felt a little sweaty all over my body or some part of my body, and I didn't sweat again after I woke up. It is generally not accompanied by uncomfortable feelings.
Most patients with moderate night sweats will sweat out soon after falling asleep, and even make their pajamas wet. They stopped sweating when they woke up. After wiping off the sweat, you will not sweat when you fall asleep. In this type of night sweats, patients often feel fever and sweating, and sometimes feel dry mouth and throat after waking up.
Patients with severe night sweats are prone to sweating. Shortly after falling asleep or just when you close your eyes and are about to fall asleep, a lot of sweat will gush out at night, and you can wake up after sweating, and the sweat can converge instantly after waking up. You can still sweat when you are asleep. Sweating is large, and sweat often has a slight salty taste, or it is mixed with sweat and odor at the same time. Sweat can even wet the bedding, and you can't sleep well unless you change your pajamas several times a night. Some severe patients can make the bedding wet, the bedding thin or when using a mat, sweat can print sweat marks on the bed board. This kind of patients are often accompanied by obvious baking feeling, and their emotions are also irritable. They are thirsty after sweating and like cold water. Usually it can be accompanied by low fever or hot flashes, five-upset fever, red cheekbones, dizziness, emaciation, fatigue, dark urine, less urine and dry stool.
Mild and moderate night sweats will not cause much harm to the body, but patients with severe night sweats will often aggravate their illness for a long time and develop into "symptoms", which seriously threaten their health and life safety.
Night sweats are a common clinical symptom, especially for people who suffer from various chronic diseases for a long time and are weak. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that night sweats are mostly caused by deficiency of both qi and yin, which can not converge and fix sweat. If night sweats are not cured for a long time, it will be more harmful to qi and yin and endanger health. Using dietotherapy can not only prevent and cure, but also benefit qi and nourish yin and strengthen the body. Here are six kinds of medicated diets easy to make at home to treat night sweats.
1, longan ginseng drinks 30 grams of longan meat, 6 grams of ginseng and 30 grams of rock sugar. Wash longan pulp first, slice ginseng, then put it in a bowl with rock sugar, add appropriate amount of water, steam it in a steamer for about an hour, take it out and cool it before eating. Take it twice a day, one dose a day, suitable for people with qi deficiency and night sweats.
2, tremella jujube soup take 30 grams of tremella, 20 grams of red dates, and the right amount of rock sugar. First, soak the tremella in warm water, remove the pedicle, wash it and tear it into small pieces. Wash and tear the red dates. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, simmer until the tremella and red dates are cooked, add rock sugar to melt and mix well, and then take out the pot. Take twice per dose, suitable for night sweats due to yin deficiency.
3. Ginseng porridge is made of ginseng 10g, poria 20g, ginger 10g, japonica rice 10g, salt and monosodium glutamate. First, the ginseng, Poria cocos and ginger are decocted with proper amount of water, then the juice is removed and the residue is taken for later use, and then the japonica rice is washed clean, and then it is put into the medicinal juice to cook porridge with low fire. After the porridge is cooked, add salt and monosodium glutamate and mix well. Take it twice on an empty stomach, one dose a day, suitable for people with qi deficiency and night sweats.
4. Black Bean Float Wheat Soup Take 50 grams of black beans, 30 grams of floating wheat, lotus seeds 15 grams, red dates 10 pieces, and 30 grams of rock sugar. First, wash black beans and floating wheat separately, put them into a pot, add a proper amount of water, cook them with low fire until they are cooked, remove residues and get juice, then cook the washed lotus seeds and red dates with the above medicinal juice, add rock sugar to dissolve the lotus seeds until they are cooked, and take them out of the pot. One dose a day, taken twice, is suitable for night sweats due to yin deficiency.
5. Huangqi Mil drinks 30 grams of Huangqi, 30 grams of glutinous rice root, 0/5 grams of ephedra root/kloc-,and 30 grams of honey. Put the above three medicines into a pot, add 3 bowls of water and decoct them. When they are boiled to L bowls, remove residues and add honey to dissolve them. Take them twice a day, one dose a day. It is suitable for people with qi deficiency and night sweats.
6. Lily lotus seeds drink 20 grams of lily, 30 grams of lotus seeds and 30 grams of rock sugar. First, wash the lily and lotus seeds, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer slowly until the lily and lotus seeds are cooked, add rock sugar to dissolve and eat them once a day for several days. It is suitable for people suffering from night sweats due to yin deficiency.