Medicine will be sweating in the waking state, known as "self-sweating"; will be sweating in sleep called "night sweats ". Night sweating is the name of a disease in traditional Chinese medicine, is to fall asleep after sweating abnormally, waking up sweat leakage as a characteristic of a disease. The word "steal" has the meaning of stealing, and ancient medical practitioners used the word "thief" to describe the condition as a sneaky activity in the night every day. Whenever people go to sleep, or just close their eyes and go to sleep, the sweat leaks out secretly like a thief.
The Chinese medicine of night sweats early have a deeper understanding, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of the book "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" is called "bed sweat". "Bed" means sleep, there is an idiom called "waste sleep and food", is to say that can not sleep and forget to eat. Obviously, "寝汗" means sweating while sleeping. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, used the image of "night sweating" in his book "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber" to name the disease of sweating in one's sleep. Since then, successive generations of medical practitioners have followed some of the name, as of today, whether it is a doctor or do other professions know what kind of sweating is a disease.
The patient of night sweating, some of the sleep that night sweating, some sleep to the middle of the night after night sweating, some just close your eyes for a while that night sweating. The amount of perspiration varies greatly. According to the clinical manifestations of patients with night sweating, can be divided into light, medium and heavy three.
Light night sweating patients, most of the sleep has been deep, or in the early morning at 5 o'clock in the morning or in the waking up 1 ~ 2 hours before the sweat easy to sweat, sweat less, only after waking up to feel the whole body or some parts of the body slightly sweaty, wake up is no sweat again leakage. It is usually not accompanied by uncomfortable feelings.
Medium-type night sweating patients, most of the sweat can be leaked soon after going to sleep, or even make the sleepwear wet, after waking up sweat, wipe the body after the sweat, and then go to sleep that no longer sweat. This type of night sweats, the patient often have a baking hot feeling, hot for sweating, wake up sometimes appear dry mouth and throat feeling.
Heavy night sweating patients, sweat is very easy to discharge. Soon after going to sleep or just close your eyes when you are about to fall asleep, there is a large amount of sweat night gushing out, sweat can be woken up, after waking up sweat can be converged in a flash. And then sleep can again sweat. Sweating, sweat often with a light salty flavor, or sweat at the same time mixed with sweat odor. Sweat even the bedding can be soaked, non-sleeping several times a night to replace the sleepwear can not sleep peacefully, there are individual patients with severe evidence can make the bedding wet, thin bedding or mat, sweat can be printed in the bed on the sweat stains. These patients are often accompanied by an obvious baking heat, and their moods are also characterized by irritability, dry mouth after sweating, and a preference for cool water. Usually, it may be accompanied by low fever or hot flashes, five heartburn, zygomatic redness, dizziness, emaciation, fatigue, dark urine, low urine output, and dry stools.
Light and medium-sized night sweats, the body will not be too much damage, but heavy night sweats patients, time will often make the condition deteriorate, to the "syndrome" development, a serious threat to the patient's health and life safety.
Night sweating is a common clinical symptom, especially for people who have suffered from various chronic diseases for a long time and have a weak constitution. According to Chinese medicine, night sweating is mostly due to the deficiency of qi and yin, which can't be converged to fix the sweat and caused by the night sweating, if the night sweating is not cured for a long time, then it will be even more exhausting and jeopardize the health of qi and yin. And the use of dietary therapy, not only to prevent and control and can benefit the gas nourishing yin and fitness, the following is the introduction of a few family easy to make the medicinal diet six, for patients with night sweats to choose from.
1, longan ginseng drink 30 grams of longan meat, ginseng 6 grams, 30 grams of rock sugar. The first longan meat clean, ginseng cut thin slices, and then with rock sugar *** put in a bowl, add the right amount of water, placed in a steamer to steam for about an hour, take out and wait for the cool can be eaten, eaten two times a day, a dose a day, suitable for gas deficiency night sweating people.
2, fungus and jujube soup 30 grams of fungus, 20 grams of jujube, rock sugar. First of all, the silver fungus soaked in warm water, remove the tip, wash and tear into small pieces. Red dates cleaned and torn. Two medicine **** into the pot with the right amount of water, with a small fire slowly simmering to the silver fungus, jujube material is cooked, into the rock sugar dissolved and adjusted, can be out of the pot to eat, each dose of 2 times to eat, suitable for yin deficiency night sweating.
3, ginseng porridge 10 grams of ginseng, white poria 20 grams of ginger 10 grams of round-grained rice 100 grams of salt, monosodium glutamate moderate. First ginseng, Poria, ginger with the right amount of water after decoction, remove the juice and take the dregs to be used, and then wash the round-grained rice, into the medicine juice with a small fire to cook porridge. Cooked to porridge when adding salt, monosodium glutamate to mix, fasting and eaten twice a day, a dose a day, suitable for gas deficiency night sweating.
4, black beans and wheat soup 50 grams of black beans, 30 grams of wheat, 15 grams of lotus rice, 10 jujube, 30 grams of rock sugar. First black beans, floating wheat were washed, *** put the pot with the right amount of water, with a small fire to cook until the black beans are cooked, remove the slag to take the juice, and then use the above juice to cook washed lotus rice and jujubes, cook until the lotus rice is rotten when put into the rock sugar dissolved, can be eaten after the pot. One dose a day, eaten in 2 times, suitable for yin deficiency night sweating.
5, astragalus two honey drink astragalus 30 grams, glutinous rice root 30 grams, ephedra root 15 grams, 30 grams of honey. The above three medicines together in a pot, add 3 bowls of water decoction, cooking to l bowl, remove the dregs, add honey dissolved in 2 times to drink, a daily dose, suitable for gas deficiency night sweating.
6, lily and lotus seed drink lily 20 grams, lotus seed 30 grams, 30 grams of rock sugar. First lily, lotus seeds, wash, put the pot with the right amount of water, with a small fire slowly stewed until the lily, lotus seeds rotten, add rock sugar dissolved can be eaten, once a day, served for a few days, suitable for yin deficiency night sweating.