1, the health care function of sweating
Sweat is the "air conditioner" of our body, and sweating is a self-regulating phenomenon. Chinese medicine believes that sweating is necessary in summer, and only in summer can you sweat naturally all year round, which is beneficial to human metabolism, meridian balance and immune system health. Experts explained that sweating in hot summer or sauna is only superficial sweating of human body, and exercise is the real deep surface sweating, that is, sweating from the inside out. Sweating not only makes people feel comfortable, but also has the following eight health care functions.
1, expelling toxins
Sweating is a kind of detoxification. There are two ways for people to detoxify: one is urination and the other is sweating. Experts say that sweating is the most effective way to detoxify. Active sweating can accelerate the circulation and metabolism of body fluids, expel toxins such as lactic acid, urea and ammonia accumulated in the body, and ensure the smoothness of nose, skin, lungs and large intestine. If you don't sweat for a long time, your skin won't breathe, which will eventually cause many disorders in your metabolic system, and the detoxification function of this skin will be transferred to your kidneys and liver.
Step 2 control blood pressure
Hypertension is a phenomenon caused by narrowing and hardening of the inner diameter of blood vessels and limited unit blood flow. Exercise and sweating can dilate capillaries, accelerate blood circulation, increase the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure.
Step 3 promote digestion
When we don't sweat, qi and blood run smoothly and the digestive system is smooth. However, when we sweat, it will promote our blood circulation, thus speeding up our digestion. This is not only good for the stomach, but also helpful for our sleep quality.
4. Prevention of osteoporosis
Many people think that sweating will lead to the loss of calcium in the body with sweat. In this regard, experts pointed out that only water-soluble vitamins will be lost with sweat. Although calcium is soluble in water, its solubility is very low and it is unlikely to be excreted with sweat. On the contrary, sweating is beneficial to the effective retention of calcium and the prevention of osteoporosis.
5. Enhance memory
A long-term education experiment for 20,000 middle school students in the United States shows that active exercise and sweating have a positive effect on students, and their memory and concentration can be greatly improved.
6, skin care and beauty
People who never sweat have slow skin metabolism and some wastes are difficult to discharge. Sweating can clean pores and achieve the effect of beauty and skin care.
7. Weight loss effect
When the human body exercises to a certain intensity, fat will burn and be converted into heat, which will be excreted through sweat.
8. Make men more attractive
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University say that the smell of men sweating can make women feel happy and relaxed.
2, the cause of human sweating
Sweating itself is a way to regulate body temperature and dissipate heat. For example, work, exercise, emotional excitement and sweating after nervousness are all normal, so sweating is a normal performance. Chinese medicine believes that sweating also has its reasons, such as the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic. There are individual differences between people. For example, fatter people sweat more and thinner people sweat less, which is normal.
Sweating must be divided into physiological sweating and pathological sweating. Pathological sweating is the cause of hyperhidrosis, which is generally the manifestation of central nervous system dysfunction. Chinese medicine believes that sweating is caused by yin-yang imbalance. Whether it is hot or cold, even in winter, some people sweat a lot, and some people sweat profusely. If they exercise a little or eat something, they will sweat all over. What is the reason? Sweating is divided into two situations.
First, the normal physiological phenomenon in the process of metabolism
For example, 1, children have vigorous metabolism during their growth and development, and produce relatively more heat and waste, so they sweat more than adults.
2. The child's nervous system development is not sound enough. The sympathetic nerve that manages the secretion of sweat glands loses control of the brain during sleep, which is prone to temporary excitement, leading to excessive sweating, which will slowly disappear after two or three hours. This situation is common in children aged 3-6, and will gradually disappear with age.
Second, pathological hyperhidrosis
There are medical classification rules for sweating, including spontaneous sweating, night sweats, head sweats, half-body sweats, hand, foot and heart sweats, etc. The most common are spontaneous sweating and night sweats. The so-called spontaneous sweating is involuntary sweating for no reason, usually in an environment where it is not hot and does not exercise during the day. Night sweats are medically considered to be sweating when you fall asleep at night and stop sweating after waking up. Of course, there are many other sweating situations that are classified.
Spontaneous sweating and night sweats are partly pathological in medicine and combined with some diseases. Sometimes it is related to the disorder of the central nervous system in the body. Spontaneous sweating is related to many diseases, such as fever, pneumonia, rheumatic fever and so on. In addition, there are some causes of endocrine disorders, such as menopausal syndrome, and some metabolic diseases, such as hyperthyroidism.
There are also some common diseases such as diabetes, hypoglycemia or coronary heart disease, pain and hypoxia. There is also sweating caused by drugs, such as taking aspirin. So there are still many reasons for spontaneous sweating. Rickets caused by calcium deficiency in children will lead to more sweating at night, accompanied by symptoms such as grumpy, easy to wake up, protruding forehead and late teething. Anemia, rheumatism and malnutrition can all lead to excessive sweating. Caused by epidemic febrile diseases, metabolic diseases and mental factors.
Hypoglycemia: it can lead to pallor, cold sweat, tremor of hands and feet, etc.
Hyperthyroidism: In addition to being afraid of heat and sweating, patients also show symptoms such as increased appetite, overeating, emaciation, increased stool frequency, palpitation and mental stress.
Diabetes: Due to autonomic nerve dysfunction, sweating often increases abnormally, and patients are accompanied by symptoms such as overeating, polyuria and weight loss.
Pheochromocytoma: The common symptoms are profuse sweating, paroxysmal sweating, and sometimes persistent sweating, as well as palpitation, shaking hands and cold limbs. And the attack is often accompanied by obvious blood pressure increase.
In addition, patients with hypertension and menopausal women will also have hyperhidrosis.
3. Implicit physical condition
(1) spontaneous perspiration
Sweating often during the day, especially after exercise, is mostly caused by qi deficiency or yang deficiency, so you can take warm tonic for conditioning.
(2) Night sweats
Sweating after falling asleep and stopping after waking up is more common in people with yin deficiency and excessive fire, especially those with pulmonary tuberculosis.
(3) nasal sweating
Dry nose is very common in our life, when we are emotional and talk a lot. When you are tired from work, you will get nasal sweat, that is, sweat will overflow from both sides of your nose. This means paying attention to rest, and it is best to relax. And for some people with weak encouragement, it is easy to sweat.
(4) Sweating on the forehead
Sweating is limited to the head and forehead, and even sweating is steaming, which is more common in people with excessive yang and excessive digestion.
(5) Half body sweating
Refers to half of the body sweating, while the other half of the body sweating little orno.. It is more common in young patients with hypertensive encephalopathy, renal hypertension, stroke, hemiplegia and paraplegia. Hemiplegia can be caused by diseases such as paraplegia, bilateral limb imbalance or paraplegia. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is caused by poor circulation of qi and blood and poor meridians.
(6) Sweating
Hyperhidrosis in the heart socket and middle breast is caused by excessive anxiety, thinking, shock and fear. Common in overworked intellectuals.
(7) Half sweating
The whole head is divided into two parts by the nose, one part sweats and the other part doesn't sweat. This is caused by the husband and wife sharing the same room after a serious illness, yin and yang deficiency, and feeling cold.
(8) Perspiration in perineum
Sweating is confined to perineum and external genitalia, which is common in gynecological diseases such as vulvar itching and female genital inflammation, and there may also be perineum sweating and peculiar smell.
(9) underarm odor
Sweat smells like body odor, which is caused by abnormal secretion of sweat glands under the armpit. More common in youth and middle age, women are more than men.
(10) sweaty hands and feet
It often happens when you are nervous or excited or when you speak in public, and it often happens when you are a teenager, which is mostly caused by mental depression.
Conclusion: No matter what kind of climate environment, we will sweat a little every day. However, sweating has many benefits to our health, but there are also some sweats that indicate physical health. The article has described in detail the benefits of our sweating, as well as the reasons and types of sweating, hoping to help everyone.
4. What should I do if I sweat more under my arm?
Sweating under the armpit is a problem that many people will encounter. This is because the apocrine gland under the armpit secretes some organic matter, which produces unsaturated fatty acids under bacterial decomposition and produces odor. Under normal circumstances, sweat secreted by human skin, especially sweat secreted by apocrine glands, will produce a special kind of fatty acid and ammonia after being decomposed by bacteria on the skin surface, so it is very important to treat underarm sweating. So how to relieve underarm sweating?
1, Pay attention to your diet: Don't eat too much spicy food, especially things that will produce an odor, such as raw onions, which will emit an unpleasant smell as the body's metabolism turns into sweat. You should eat more calcium-rich foods such as milk, bean products, shrimp, kelp, fish, bone soup and green leafy vegetables.
2, drink more lactic acid drinks, often drink lactic acid drinks is still very effective for treatment. Lactic acid beverage can inhibit the growth of bacteria in the body, thus reducing the excretion of bacteria from the skin through sweat glands, because bacteria hate to grow in the relief of acidity.
3, keep your body clean: take a bath every day to keep your armpits clean, and the clothes you contact must also be cleaned every day. You can consider removing armpit hair, which is easy to breed bacteria and will produce odor after sweating in summer!
4. oolong tea. Tea can eliminate odor, so it is effective for underarm sweating and sweating. At this time, you can brew a pot of oolong tea with boiling water. After cooling, you can directly wipe your armpits with cotton cloth at home. When you are outside, you can prepare a small spray bottle in advance, fill it with oolong tea water and spray it at any time.
5. Reduce sweating and strenuous exercise. In hot weather, body odor is particularly serious because of sweating, so it is a good way to apply antiperspirant to reduce sweating. Antiperspirant can block the channel of sweat secretion and has the function of sterilization and disinfection. Basically, it is enough to apply it once a day. If the situation is serious, you can apply it 2-3 times, not too many times.