Is there a situation where you sweat more when you are dry? This kind of people, especially, are usually too impatient when the weather is still very cold. When they are in a hurry, they just feel hot. They sweat a little when they sit still or move around in the room, which looks like they have been washed. What's going on here?

This situation is actually called spontaneous sweating in Chinese medicine, which is mostly related to our lungs and spleen.

Chinese medicine says that the lung governs qi, breath and fur, and its lung qi runs in the veins, promoting the whole body's qi and blood circulation to resist the invasion of foreign evils. However, when the lung is damaged due to bad living habits or various exogenous pathogens, it will lead to lung qi deficiency, weaken the physiological function of the lung, make the lung surface unstable, and weaken the ability to control sweat excretion. It is easy to sweat with a little activity, while lung qi deficiency will damage lung yin for a long time, leading to lung yin deficiency, which is called yin deficiency and heat generation, so it is accompanied by the phenomena of hand, foot and heart heat, irritability and night sweats.

Chinese medicine also believes that sweating is also related to our spleen. Spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and the internal organs are supported by it. Spleen deficiency for a long time, the supply of qi and blood in the body is insufficient for a long time, and then the defensive qi is not solid, and it comes out after a little activity.

Excessive sweating leads to insufficient body fluid and qi and blood in the body, so strengthening the spleen can enhance the transport and absorption ability of the spleen, which is conducive to the transformation of essence and blood.

So today, Dr. Shen will share with you two kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, which can tonify the lungs and strengthen the spleen, stop sweating and nourish yin. What about the two traditional Chinese medicines? It's astragalus and Ophiopogon japonicus.

Let's take a look at Ophiopogon japonicus, which is a commonly used medicine to tonify lung yin. Its taste is sweet and cold, and its smell is slightly fragrant, which is beneficial to the production of body fluid in the stomach, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. For the upset, hyperhidrosis and night sweats caused by lung yin deficiency, Ophiopogon japonicus can be used to relieve exterior symptoms, improve lung function, restore the skin's function of controlling sweat metabolism for a long time, and naturally relieve sweating.

Secondly, let's look at Astragalus membranaceus, which can replenish spleen meridian. Blindly replenishing vitality is a good medicine, and the so-called spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry. So here we use astragalus to tonify our temper. If the temper is sufficient and the essence and blood are fully biochemical, there will be no phenomenon that excessive sweating leads to insufficient body fluid. Of course, Astragalus can also enter the lung meridian, which has the ability to replenish qi and consolidate exterior, and has a good tonic effect on lung qi deficiency and spleen qi deficiency.

In short, the combination of Ophiopogon japonicus and Astragalus membranaceus can nourish lung yin and strengthen temper. Both of them can nourish yin and moisten dryness, replenish qi and promote fluid production to quench thirst, and will not make Astragalus too greasy. It can solve the problems of fear of heat, hyperhidrosis, upset fever, night sweats and so on caused by deficiency of both lung and spleen and internal heat due to yin deficiency. If you have this problem, you may wish to refer to it, but you need to find Chinese medicine to differentiate.