What is good for night sweats? Thank you for your questions.
Night sweats refer to sweating when you sleep and stopping sweating when you wake up. Sweat is produced by blood and dominated by the heart. Normal people don't sweat when they sleep, and the yang enters the yin when they sleep. If yin deficiency, yin does not converge yang, yang will evaporate, and body fluid will leak out, resulting in night sweats. Night sweats with palm heat and upset. If there is palm heat with upset, it is heart-yin deficiency, and people with heart-yin deficiency are prone to insomnia. Seeing that their tongue coating is often red on the tip of the tongue, and the tongue coating is less or thin yellow, we need to nourish the heart and yin. Chinese patent medicines can use Zixinyin oral liquid and Tianwang Buxin Dan; Self-acupoint massage: Yongquan, Sanyinjiao, Laogong, Daling and Taixi; Dietetic therapy can use lotus root and buckwheat. Night sweats, foot fever, backache. If there is still the problem of hot feet and backache, it is kidney yin deficiency. Men with kidney-yin deficiency are prone to nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, while women with kidney-yin deficiency are prone to red tide fever on cheekbones (like high tide in the sea). Kidney yin deficiency can be treated with the famous Liuwei Dihuang Pill (Baizhi Dihuang Pill). Self-acupoint massage: Yongquan, Taixi, Yingu and Fuliu; Diet and health: black sesame, mulberry and Ligustrum lucidum. Night sweats, dry cough, less phlegm and hot palms. If there is a dry cough, less phlegm and fever in the palms, it is lung yin deficiency. People with lung yin deficiency are most likely to have a dry cough in the afternoon or evening. They are often thin, even a little skinny. Their skin is dry and oily, and they can even cough up bleeding silk. As we know, Lin Daiyu is a typical lung yin deficiency, and Chinese patent medicines: Yangyin Qingfei Pill and Lily Gujin Oral Liquid; Self-acupoint massage: Taixi, Shenshu, Zhao Hai, Fuliu, Yinmian; Dietotherapy: tremella, lily, yam, Polygonatum sibiricum, bird's nest, pear, donkey-hide gelatin and loquat. Night sweats are accompanied by a lack of color in the face or nails. If night sweats are accompanied by symptoms such as insufficient blood color in the face or nails, insomnia, early awakening, etc., blood-enriching treatment is needed. Chinese patent medicines can choose Zaoren Anshen Oral Liquid, Anshen Buxin Capsule and Bai Zi Yangxin Pill. Shenmen, Taixi and Sanyinjiao are used for acupoint health care of people with insufficient heart blood; Longan, jujube, jujube seed, donkey-hide gelatin, mulberry, etc. It is a good food for dietotherapy and health. Night sweats are accompanied by cold and fever and hypochondriac pain and discomfort. If aversion to cold and fever alternate (cold and heat), dry mouth and throat, chest and hypochondriac discomfort, you can consider liver and gallbladder evil depression (shaoyang), and you need to dredge liver and gallbladder evil (shaoyang), you can apply Xiaochaihu Granule Chinese medicine. Night sweat, sticky sweat, accompanied by heavy head and light body, loss of appetite. If night sweats are sticky and sweaty, the head is heavy and the body is heavy, and you don't want to eat (loss of appetite), which belongs to wet and turbid spleen and needs to be removed. Chinese patent medicine: Xiangsha Liujunzi granules; Self-acupoint massage: Gongsun, Fenglong, Zusanli; Diet: pumpkin, coix seed, white radish, winter melon seeds, loofah, red bean carp soup.