What to do if you sweat while sleeping at night? Chinese medicine and diet therapy can help

Many men have reported that they sweat inexplicably when they sleep at night, and sometimes they wake up to find their bed sheets wet. This is called "sweating" in medicine. From a Chinese medicine perspective, nocturnal sweating is related to qi deficiency or yin deficiency. So, can dietary therapy relieve this problem?

What to eat when sweating

1. Food

The foods you can choose include sesame, glutinous rice, mung bean, lotus root, watercress, Chinese cabbage, black fungus, white fungus, tofu, sugar cane, plum, peach, watermelon, cucumber, lily, yam, squid, turtle, sea cucumber, abalone, crab, milk, oyster, clam, jellyfish, duck, pork skin, etc. These foods are mostly sweet and cold in nature, and have the effect of nourishing the body's yin. They can be appropriately combined with yin-tonifying medicinal diets for targeted conditioning. People with yin deficiency and excessive fire should eat less spicy food, eat less hot pot, and don't eat too much chicken. They should also eat less steamed, fried, stir-fried, and roasted foods. Among fruits, longan meat and lychee should be avoided if possible.

2. Astragalus and Red Date Soup:

15g of Astragalus, 20 red dates, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 1 hour, take one dose per day, divided into 2-3 times, and take for 10 consecutive days. It is effective for sweating caused by Qi deficiency and weak Wei.

3. Black bean, pork and jujube soup:

30g black beans, 10g longan pulp, 30g red dates, wash and put in a sand pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for about 1 hour, take twice a day, take for 15 days as a course of treatment. It is effective for spontaneous sweating due to deficiency and sweating due to imbalance of nutrition and defense.

4. Floating wheat and lamb tripe soup:

Put 30g of floating wheat in a clean small cloth bag, wash and cut 50g of sheep tripe into pieces, add appropriate amount of water, simmer until cooked, remove the cloth bag, season, eat the tripe and drink the soup, eat it several times a day. Use for 5-10 days, it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stopping sweating. It is also effective for asthenia.

5. Loach soup:

Take about 100 grams of loach, wash off the mucus with warm water, open the abdomen and clean the intestines, fry with oil until yellow, add one and a half bowls of water, fry for 30 minutes, season with salt, and eat it in several times within one day. (Young children can drink the soup instead of eating loach to avoid bone ulcers). Eat for 3-5 days in a row, it is effective for sweating.