Sweating has advantages and disadvantages.
First of all, sweating is not a bad thing. Chinese medicine believes that sweating can lower the body temperature, and at the same time, it can eliminate some metabolic wastes and remove the garbage in the body. When you have a cold and fever, you often have to sweat, detoxify and dissipate heat.
But from another perspective, sweat is a metabolite of body fluids. Blood and sweat are homologous. Sweating consumes gas, hurts body fluids and makes people sad.
Sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon.
Under normal circumstances, sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon. If you seldom sweat in summer and your blood doesn't "grow", your body's resistance to cold will be weakened. Sweating in summer actually means that your body is cooling itself. If you always stay in an air-conditioned environment and rarely sweat, you will be more vulnerable to germs in autumn and winter, and you will easily catch a cold and cough. Know the following kinds of normal sweating:
1 hot sweat
When the weather is hot, you will sweat when you sit still, which is warm sweat. Warm sweat is a way of self-regulation of human central temperature caused by the increase of external temperature. The human body emits heat and regulates body temperature by sweating.
2 Exercise sweating
When the human body is exercising, the blood vessels dilate and the blood circulation accelerates, which can generate a lot of heat while consuming energy in the body. It is a normal physiological reaction for the human body to lower its body temperature by sweating.
3 mental sweating
Under the influence of mental factors such as people's nervousness, fear and excitement, nerve impulses spread from cerebral cortex to exocrine glands, and the concentration of norepinephrine increased, which led to the rapid increase of secretion and excretion activities of exocrine glands in a short time, that is, mental sweating.
4 taste sweating
It is sweating caused by eating some irritating foods, such as pepper, garlic, ginger, cocoa and coffee.
If you sweat too much, be alert!
If you sweat too much, you should be alert. It may be a physical problem. Sweating too much will consume qi and damage body fluid, damage the heart and blood, and a large amount of yang will leak out, which will easily make people tired, weak, flustered and short of breath. However, sweating in different parts corresponds to different health problems and requires "the right medicine"!
1 head hyperhidrosis
If hyperhidrosis is accompanied by heaviness and weakness of limbs, abdominal distension and nausea, body heat and thick and greasy tongue coating, it is mostly the manifestation of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach. At this time, we should pay attention to light diet, smooth defecation, spleen and dampness.
If you sweat after overeating, the upper abdomen feels full and thirsty at the same time, mostly because of food accumulation, which can be alleviated by reducing food intake and light diet.
In addition, the elderly and women who are weak after delivery will also have hyperhidrosis, which is mostly due to qi deficiency and can be adjusted according to the principle of invigorating qi.
2 sweaty hands and feet.
Hyperhidrosis of hands and feet with fever, dry mouth and throat. Most of them are due to yin deficiency and excessive heat. You can eat some foods that nourish yin, such as Ejiao, Motherwort, Angelica sinensis, Tremella, Poria and so on.
If there is abdominal pain and constipation, it is mostly damp heat caused by intestinal dryness and constipation. At this time, you can eat some foods that moisten your stomach, such as yam, codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, dried tangerine peel and so on. If accompanied by dry mouth, swollen gums, etc. Mostly stomach heat, peas and rice cooked together can be nursed back to health.
3 sweating in the chest.
More common in mental workers, such people are often accompanied by mental fatigue, loss of appetite, poor sleep, dreaminess and so on. It is caused by excessive thinking and deficiency of both heart and spleen. Appropriate exercise, such as jogging, walking and Tai Ji Chuan. It can relieve stress and regulate body and mind.
4 sweating all over.
If a lot of sweating, thirst, dizziness, chest tightness, nausea, palpitations, weakness of limbs, tinnitus, inattention and elevated body temperature are usually precursors.
Whether sweating in hot summer or sauna, these are superficial sweating of human body, not active sweating. Exercise is really deep surface sweating, which makes people sweat from the inside out. This is active sweating. This kind of sweat is self-regulated by the human body. Sweating not only makes people feel comfortable, but also has various benefits, such as expelling toxins, controlling blood pressure, promoting digestion, caring skin and losing weight.
So don't always stay in an air-conditioned room for fear of sweating. Go out for a walk and exercise more to make your body sweat, so as to stay healthy! However, be careful not to exercise too hard in summer.
It is best not to blow the air conditioner before the sweat is dry, especially to avoid direct blowing. If you enter the air-conditioned room after sweating, you should take off your wet clothes and dry your sweat.