When the weather is hot, you will sweat profusely. Why does every part of your face sweat?

Sweating is a physiological function of human body to excrete and regulate body temperature, but if the way of sweating, the amount, color and smell of sweat change, it can be regarded as a precursor of some diseases and should be paid attention to. The following is an explanation of some common sweating phenomena from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine:

spontaneous perspiration

It is not because of the sultry weather, taking sweating drugs and other stimulating factors that you often sweat. This situation is called "spontaneous sweating". Spontaneous sweating is mostly caused by weak lung qi deficiency, weak defensive yang qi and leakage of body fluid, so it is often accompanied by symptoms of yang deficiency such as fatigue, burnout, shortness of breath and chills. It is more common in children with rickets and hyperthyroidism.

have night sweat

Sweat when you sleep, and sweat when you wake up. Night sweats are often caused by hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency, yin not controlling yang, and sweating in body fluids, so they are often accompanied by symptoms such as five upset, insomnia, dry mouth and throat. Common in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis infiltration.

Hanzhan

That is, sweating after chills is a manifestation of the struggle between good and evil in the process of epidemic febrile disease. After sweating, the fever is gone, the pulse is still, and the body is cold. This is a good phenomenon, indicating that the evil has gone and the vitality has recovered. If the limbs are cold and irritable after sweating, it means that vital qi is invincible, and vital qi goes down with weakness, which is a critical illness. War sweat is more common in the early and middle stages of various infectious diseases.

Easily

It means that when the condition is critical, the vital qi is weak, the yang is about to take off, sweating profusely, accompanied by shortness of breath, cold limbs, weak pulse, and sometimes not critical, which is a sign that the yang will be exhausted, and it is more common in patients with heart failure and collapse.

Head sweating

Sweating is confined to the head. Most of them are caused by pathogenic heat in the upper jiao or damp-heat stagnation and steaming in the middle jiao, which is more common in Yangming heat and damp-heat syndrome. If you see it after a serious illness, or if the old man is panting and sweating, it is mostly empty. For example, a sudden profusion of forehead sweat at the end of a serious illness is a crisis in which yin deficiency goes up, yin deficiency cannot attach yang, and yin and body fluid take off with qi. However, children often sweat on their heads while sleeping. If there are no other symptoms, it is not a symptom.

Partial sweating

Commonly known as "half-body sweat". It is located on the left or right, upper body or lower body. They are all caused by wind phlegm or rheumatism blocking collaterals, or poor camp defense, or disharmony between qi and blood. More common in patients with rheumatism or hemiplegia. If the elderly sweat, it may be a precursor to a stroke.

cold sweat

Refers to sweating due to cold limbs. No fever before sweating, no thirst. Often accompanied by listlessness, pale face, loose stool, long urine, slow pulse, pale tongue and other cold symptoms. It is mostly caused by yang deficiency and insufficient defensive qi, and it can also be caused by fright.

In addition, sweaty palms are often too nervous; Sweating in the chest is thinking too much; Those who often sweat in the slightest exercise are either too fat or too weak; The sweat of diabetic patients is slightly fragrant; Sweat of patients with liver cirrhosis has a special taste of liver.