Summer is here, and many people sweat every day. Sweating is a normal metabolic activity of the body, when encountering high temperatures, labor, thick clothes, exercise, hot food, nervous and other environments and occasions, usually sweating profusely or sweating through clothes, people will have a sense of pleasure and relaxation.
However, sweating is a double-edged sword for health and socialization, when there is no need to sweat, sweat appears in large quantities, which is a yellow card for health, adding chaos to social interaction and subtracting points from the image.
In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, "sweat" is not only the direction of diagnosis, but also the means of treatment, and it is also a health reference. There are general theories of "yang is added to yin", "sweat and blood are of the same origin", and there are also important views such as "sweat is the surplus of qi", "sweat is the essence of the heart", "sweat is the essence of the lungs" and so on.
In a word, Chinese medicine is relatively thorough in asking sweating, treating sweating, diaphoresis, and stopping sweating, and has a lot of rich clinical experience.
If sweating is a matter of course, asking sweat is in simple terms, and treating sweating is a combination of multiple methods, then antiperspiration reflects the power of traditional Chinese medicine to collect and release freely.
Why stop perspiration? Because some sweating is abnormal and unwanted, if it is not stopped in time, it will affect health, disturb the essence and blood, and dissipate righteous qi.
The key is, how to stop sweating in time? Traditional Chinese medicine has a large number of clinical principles, practices, medication, and acupuncture experience, and here is a more common one: antiperspirant drugs according to age. Young people, about 20 years old, use jade screens to disperse; Middle-aged people, around 40 years old, use Shenling Baizhu San; Elderly people, over 60 years old with Zhi Bodihuang pills.
1. Why do young people around 20 years old apply jade screen to stop sweating?
Children in the infant stage, is a pure yang body, the growth of qi and blood fluid surge strong, if the body surface guard qi can not be absorbed, easy to sweat, the back of the neck, forehead, nose often sweat, armpits and groin sweating, this is the surface deficiency of sweating, reflecting the lack of yang and yin, the heart and lungs, the liver and spleen insufficiency. If you don't pay attention to sweating and stopping sweating, you can easily catch a cold.
The traditional Chinese medicine prescription considers the "jade screen powder", which was first recorded in the "original formula", and the "screen" is the furniture placed in the indoor wind shield in ancient times.
There are only 3 flavors of medicine in the whole prescription of Yuping Fengsan, and Astragalus membranaceus tonifies the lungs and strengthens the lungs, which is the king's medicine; Atractylodes atractylodes strengthens the muscle surface, relieves perspiration and dampness, strengthens the spleen, and is a subordinate medicine; It is an adjuvant medicine to prevent wind and disperse wind evil, relieve muscle surface, and make adjuvant medicine.
These three flavor medicines also constitute the "iron triangle" of "dispelling wind and evil without harming the right", Tori solid table, is the backing of righteousness, and has a quick effect on self-sweating, qi deficiency and cold, etc., and is called "gamma globulin in traditional Chinese medicine" in modern times.
2. Why do middle-aged people around 40 years old apply Shenling Baizhu Powder to stop sweating?
When people reach middle age, physical health is closely related to the balance of yin and yang, and the maintenance of the day after tomorrow is very important. Middle-aged people have a heavy burden on their shoulders, but in order to earn a living, or self-restraint is not good, they are prone to sloppy eating, staying up late for a long time, smoking and drinking, mental tension, and aggravating the damage to the spleen and stomach.
The spleen and stomach are damaged, directly impacting the lungs, causing lung qi deficiency, sweating can not be stopped, accompanied by lack of food, abdominal distention, bowel sound, loose stool erosion and other manifestations, which are typical symptoms of dampness.
The traditional Chinese medicine prescription considers "Shenling Baizhu San", which comes from the "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Formula", which is composed of 10 herbs and 2 flavors of Jun medicine: ginseng and atractylodes; 6 flavors of medicine: white lentils, coix seeds, poria cocos, licorice, lotus seeds, yams; Adjuvant 1 flavor: sand kernel; 1 flavor of medicine: bellflower.
Shenling Baizhu Powder is the representative of "cultivating the soil and producing gold", the soil corresponds to the spleen, and the gold corresponds to the lungs, which can strengthen the spleen and infiltrate dampness, invigorate qi and stop diarrhea, unblock the qi, solve the problem of weakness of the spleen and stomach, and strengthen the lungs to achieve the purpose of stopping sweating.
3. Why do the elderly around 60 years old apply Zhibodihuang pills for antiperspirants?
After the age of 60, the aging of organs accelerates, most of the underlying diseases, stubborn diseases, can eventually be associated with kidney yin deficiency, kidney essence deficiency, the elderly like to be quiet but not active, sweating is more common in night sweats, sweat can not be collected after sleeping, daily dry mouth, dizziness, tinnitus, waist and knee soreness and other problems such as heart and liver deficiency and fire.
The method of symptomatic treatment is to reduce deficiency fire while replenishing kidney yin, and the key medicine to replenish kidney yin is Liuwei Dihuang pill, but its effect on reducing fire is insufficient, so the medicine of reducing heart fire and liver fire is added, which is Zhibai Dihuang pill.
Zhibai Dihuang Pill comes from "Yizong Jinjian", with rehmannia as the king medicine to nourish the kidney yin, with yam, dogwood, Zhimu, and Phellodendron as the subordinate medicine, nourishing the liver and kidney, astringent and solid, with Ze Yuan, Danpi, and Poria cocos as adjuvants, infiltrating dampness, and strengthening the spleen and diarrhea liver fire.
Zhibai Dihuang Pill can force away the deficiency fire of the liver and heart by nourishing yin and clearing heat, solve the problem of night sweats in the elderly, ensure good sleep, and strengthen the spleen.
Traditional Chinese medicine regulates the problem of excessive sweating and unstoppable sweating in the elderly, middle-aged and young people, far more than these 3 prescriptions, but their efficacy is more prominent, their fame is relatively large, and their clinical applications are more. No matter which treatment method is, the key is to treat the syndrome differentiation, use the drug rationally, pay attention not to use the drug indiscriminately, and follow the doctor's instructions.