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Spontaneous perspiration due to qi deficiency, night sweats due to yin deficiency, and hyperhidrosis are common diseases in life, and most people do not care.
Chinese medicine believes that sweat Liquid of the heart. If you sweat too much or spontaneously or night sweat for too long, it will hurt your body and mind, resulting in mental fatigue, pale face, weak limbs, lack of appetite, easy to catch colds, and sleepy dreams. and other symptoms of yin and yang imbalance.
So, sweating will not only damage people’s body and mind , and even induce other diseases, so be careful.
Generally speaking, there are two types of sweating : One is that during the day, light activity will cause sweating; the other is that at night, after falling asleep, a lot of sweating begins, and the sweating stops immediately after waking up.
In the first case, Chinese medicine calls it “spontaneous sweating”, and the second condition is called “night sweating”. What is the difference between the two sweats?
First of all, let’s take a look at how TCM understands the mechanism of sweating, which is called “the addition of yang to yin is called sweating”.
means something like There is a pot of cold water in the pot, and the water will not change in any way. However, if a small fire is burned under the pot, the water in the pot will slowly turn into gas and evaporate.
The water in the pot is Yin, and the fire below is Positive. By applying yang to yin, sweat comes out. In fact, the human sweating process is a bit more complicated than this example. Because sweat is originally the body fluid of the human body.
For the human body, body fluid is a Very useful things, through the efforts of the lungs, spleen and kidneys, and finally turn the drinking water into body fluid, very precious.
So, the general human body will not easily Such a precious thing was excreted out of the body casually.
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So what does the human body use How can I keep these body fluids?
Although the small fire in the body keeps burning However, the human body will put a lid on the pot (this pot lid is called Wei Qi in Chinese medicine), so that the body fluid that turns into Qi will not be easily discharged out of the body.
Unless the fire is too high, the lid is also covered Top up; or, the lid has a quality problem, the lid is not tight, or there is no lid at all.
Under normal circumstances, human The yin and yang in the body are relatively peaceful, and the lid of the pot is relatively strong, so there will be no sweat.
Even activity After a while, there was a little more fire in the body, but the lid of the pot was firm, and the sweat was still not easily discharged.
But if there is a problem with the lid now, the lid If there is a hole in it, then as long as the fire in the body is a little bigger, the sweat will flow out.
If the human body has less guard qi, there will be no The method is to protect the body fluid well and prevent it from coming out casually. Then as long as you move a little bit, the fire in the body will be a little more, and the sweat will flow out. This kind of perspiration is spontaneous perspiration.
Consider another situation: The fire in the stove is still the same, but the water in the pot has been reduced by half.
What happens then? We will find that the water heats up faster and boils more easily.
Look at our The lid is the Weiqi. With the change of day and night, the working state is also constantly changing.
Daytime people need Carrying out various activities, the human body has many opportunities to generate more heat, so the Wei Qi needs to keep a state of alert all the time to prevent the excessive discharge of body fluids; at the same time, it also plays a role in preventing external pathogenic factors from invading the human body. Purpose.
And at night, people fell asleep quietly , the body will not produce too much fire; there is a quilt covered, and there is no way for the evil spirits from the outside to enter the body. After a hard day’s work, Wei Qi finally had a chance to rest.
Well, if there is less water in the human body now, It was already hot in the pot, and the body fluid was eager to come out. It’s just that there is a lid on the pot during the day, and there is no way.
Now it’s night, let’s rest , the lid of the pot is no longer there, and the body fluid is discharged from the sweat hole in a mighty manner, which is night sweat.
From Sweat is caused by the lack of the body’s health qi, which cannot protect the body fluids, and a little activity will cause a lot of sweating; night sweats are caused by the lack of yin and body fluids in the human body.
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Floating wheat is a miraculous antiperspirant.
a friend who sleeps every night It has been several years since I started sweating when I was over. I have also taken some medicines prescribed by doctors for a large amount of money, but they have not been cured. It has been delayed for several years.
It’s gotten worse recently, and I’m sweating at night. The pillows were all wet, and the hair was drenched as if it had just been washed. When I woke up, I felt weak and dizzy. Talked to me that day and asked what would be good to eat.
I told her Medicine is like “floating wheat”.
What is float wheat? Folks call floating wheat “blind wheat”, but it is actually the shriveled seeds that are thrown out with a dustpan when harvesting wheat, that is, the grains that are not ripe and not full.
If you put wheat in water, these shriveled seeds will It will float, so it is called “floating wheat”.
According to the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, the ancients It is believed that “wheat grows in autumn and grows in winter, spring grows in summer, and it has the temperament of four seasons, so it is the preciousness of the five grains”; the effect of floating wheat on sweating is also mentioned in ancient medical classics.
1, strong> “Materia Medica Mengquan”: astringe sweat.
2, Outline “: Replenishing Qi and removing heat, stopping spontaneous perspiration and night sweats, Guzheng deficiency heat, and women’s labor heat.
3, Modern Practical Chinese Medicine: Tonic for the heart, stop irritability, remove heat, restrain sweat, facilitate urination.
4. This “Jing Fengyuan” records: Floating wheat can restrain night sweats, and take the heat of loose skin and stomach.
The Outline of Traditional Chinese Medicine says, Floating wheat, cool in nature, sweet and salty in taste, returns to the heart, spleen, and kidney meridians, and has the effects of invigorating qi, removing heat and antiperspirant.
All patients with spontaneous perspiration caused by qi deficiency and night sweats caused by yin deficiency can be treated with floating wheat. Nourishes the heart, removes heat, stops sweating, and facilitates urination.
< "Healthy Treasures" records that floating wheat treats night sweats and excessive sweating: floating wheat, civil and military fire frying to make coke, is the end. Each serving is two dollars, and Miyintang is adjusted down, and it is better to take it frequently.
The taste is good, similar to millet soup.