1. 1, looking for incentives

Hot flashes are mostly intermittent and have different incentives for people. Menopausal women should pay attention to all their daily activities, diet, environment and emotional changes, and keep a diary when necessary. In this process, some women discovered the behavior patterns that induced hot flashes. Therefore, we can find the right way to overcome hot flashes.

1.2, TCM treatment

Chinese herbal medicines rich in phytoestrogens can be used to replace human estrogens.

1.3, relax

When hot flashes occur, you should pay attention to stabilizing your mood. You can relax and meditate and imagine yourself in a cool place, calm and cool. You can also drink a cup of cold boiled water, which is also helpful to relieve hot flashes.

1.4, take a deep breath.

When the heat flow starts to sting the skin and climb up the neck, deep breathing is helpful. Try to expel the air from the lungs, then dilate the diaphragm and take a deep breath. Keep a steady rhythm, hot flashes are often subdued before sweating.

2. Causes of hot flashes and night sweats

Estrogen is a hormone that directly acts on the hypothalamus of the brain, which is related to appetite, sleep, sex hormones and body temperature. Therefore, when estrogen in the body drops, it will cause the brain to mistakenly think that it is hyperthermia.

The brain will send signals to the heart, pump more blood, and sweat glands will release more sweat. Therefore, women will suddenly feel hot and secrete a lot of unpleasant sweat, which is menopausal hot flashes.

Many women find that their menopausal hot flashes are caused by some external factors, and stress is the biggest inducement. Other known causes of hot flashes in menopause include spicy food, spicy food, drinking, smoking, caffeine or diet pills.

3. Symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats

Hot flashes mean that fever is timed, that is, the body temperature rises at the same time every day, usually from noon 12: 00 to 14: 00 or some patients have fever at night, but as long as fever is timed, it can be called hot flashes. Night sweats, that is, sweating while sleeping, are called "night sweats" because they are too deep to be detected. In short, the symptoms of "hot flashes and night sweats" are that fever is timed, and/or sweating during sleep at night, which Chinese medicine considers to be yin deficiency.

It is characterized by bouts of fever, starting from the chest, rushing to the head and neck, spreading to the whole body, and then suddenly sweating, accompanied by dizziness, palpitation and fatigue, lasting for tens of seconds to several minutes, and the number of attacks varies from more than 20 times a day to one week 1~2 times. In the past, it has been measured that the skin temperature will increase during the attack and then decrease to normal after the attack, which may be related to the accelerated blood flow during the attack, and has no more clinical significance.

What is good for hot flashes and night sweats?

Hot flashes and night sweats can eat more nourishing food. This kind of food can help coordinate the body's yin and yang, and eliminate and retreat internal heat. Common nourishing yin foods are: Lycium barbarum, bird's nest, tremella, lily, lotus seeds, red dates, soybeans, duck eggs, mussels, soft-shelled turtles and so on.

Hot flashes and night sweats can help you eat more food. This kind of food helps to improve hot flashes and sweating. Common foods for promoting salivation include American ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, tremella, lotus root, lotus seed, sesame, soybean milk, pear and banana.

How cold food can hot flashes and night sweats eat? This kind of food can clear away heat and toxic materials, cool blood and relieve summer heat, and has obvious effect on relieving body heat. There are many hot foods, such as day lily, Sydney, banana, watermelon, celery, amaranth, cabbage, water bamboo, bitter gourd, cucumber, tofu, soybean, wheat and millet.

How to maintain hot flashes and night sweats?

Patients should seek happiness for themselves, enhance their immunity, laugh often, make the organs vibrate harmoniously, make the spirit in an excited state, and promote the secretion of healthy hormones. Pursuing new knowledge and preventing brain aging can not only stimulate brain cells, make thinking active and react quickly, but also prevent brain atrophy. Cultivating sentiment, adjusting mentality, and mental activities are closely related to the physiological changes of the human body. Regulating body and mind to soothe the soul can make metabolism vigorous and slow down brain aging.

Reasonable diet to prevent osteoporosis, people in middle age need to pay special attention to diet regulation to prevent osteoporosis, eat more foods rich in calcium and vitamin D, and often bask in the sun. Adequate sleep, proper beauty, adequate sleep can relieve fatigue, enhance immune resistance and prevent the invasion of diseases. Pay attention to diet therapy and tonify kidney essence. When people reach middle age, they should pay attention to tonifying kidney and essence, so as to keep their bodies in a vigorous state. According to your own situation, making some porridge is of great benefit to beauty.

The maintenance of hot flashes and night sweats should also do more exercise, promote blood circulation, improve the functions of the heart, lungs and brain, make the body consume a lot of fat, speed up metabolism and make the body healthier. There are many ways to maintain hot flashes and night sweats. These maintenance methods not only play an effective role in relieving hot flashes and night sweats, but also have great benefits to the body. In daily life, they can also be regulated by the Chinese herbal medicine "Zhengqi Guyuan Formula", which is used by many menopausal people.