Hand sweating usually does not affect the body too much, but is mainly a symptom of extraordinarily heavy sweating, especially in summer or during times of stress. This is not a serious symptom and does not affect your health, but often patients suffer from a lot of pain due to a large amount of hand sweating. Now let’s see what Chinese medicine has to say about hand sweating.
How does hand sweating occur?
In clinical medicine hand sweating is mainly a symptom of abnormal localized sweating, often manifested as no visible sweat in the body, but the palms of the hands are full of sweat and can feel cold. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, it is often a manifestation of slippage of fluid or lack of consolidation of Wei Qi. Patients do not necessarily experience coldness in the fingertip area but need to be judged according to the specific type of evidence, and the fingertips will only appear cold if they are not victimized by heat symptoms. The condition is caused by the malfunction of the liver’s drainage function and the obstruction of the three jiao.
What types of hand sweating can be classified?
1. Yang deficiency and internal cold type
This type is mainly a deficiency of yang, and the body is disturbed by cold, the long-term effect will lead to sweaty palms. The Yang deficiency and internal cold type of hand sweating are usually dominated by cold sweat, and sometimes the patient will feel obvious coldness and numbness in the limbs. This situation needs to be treated with warmth and tonicity. You can choose Chinese herbs to strengthen the patient’s physique and avoid the continued influence of external cold evil while warming the kidney yang to achieve the effect of relieving symptoms and curing the disease.
2. Yin deficiency and internal heat type
The Yin deficiency internal heat type of drought is mainly characterized by the symptoms of Yin deficiency, sometimes there may be obvious dry mouth and bitterness and depletion of fluids due to the longer development of heat evidence. The yin deficiency internal heat type of hand sweating, often also appears as the symptoms of five heart irritation and heat, as well as night sweating, which are typical manifestations of yin deficiency. To treat the yin deficiency internal heat type of hand sweating, you also need to nourish liver yin, clear heat, and nourish blood treatment, which is mainly to regulate the function of the liver and effectively detoxify liver fire to achieve the purpose of controlling the disease.
3. Damp heat within the type
Damp heat for many people is a relatively troublesome disease, often damp heat will affect the patient’s metabolism, and increased sweating is inevitable, sometimes water and dampness stop, but also affect the function of the internal organs, so damp heat within the patient, you need to clear heat and detoxify, water and dampness treatment to effectively relieve the disease.
The sweating of the palms, although the symptoms are mild, is also a common disease and should not be neglected. If there is a prolonged and obvious case of hand sweating, you also need to undergo relevant examination and carry out relevant symptomatic treatment after getting an accurate dialectical diagnosis. The patient is generally easy to cure and can get good results after adhering to the medication, so the patient can recover quickly with active cooperation.