Hyperhidrosis of hands and feet is a common disease. In the view of Chinese medicine, there are generally two situations. First, "sweating syndrome" as a symptom of systemic diseases. Both of them appear as the main symptoms, and other general malaise is not significant. In the specific diagnosis and treatment, it is also different.

Sweat syndrome is characterized by sweating all over the body, sometimes on the head, back or half of the body, but usually not limited to sweating on hands and feet. Sweat syndrome can be divided into spontaneous sweating and night sweats. The former refers to sweating all the time during the day and sweating more after a little activity; The latter refers to sweating during sleep and stopping sweating after waking up. Both night sweats and spontaneous sweating have little to do with the climate and environment. In other words, compared with normal people, in the same climatic environment, sweating of patients with sweating syndrome is more obvious.

Sweat syndrome often appears in the manifestations of calcium deficiency, autonomic nervous dysfunction, hyperthyroidism, tuberculosis, rheumatism, menopausal syndrome, sub-health and other diseases. In addition, there are a few people who are prone to sweating, but they have no other physical discomfort. They have been eating and living as usual for many years, and there are no signs of weakness. This condition is congenital and cannot be treated according to pathology.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, sweating syndrome can be divided into four types according to the etiology and pathology, and the specific manifestations are as follows (all types can have sweaty hands and feet, and they are not specified one by one):

1, lung health instability type: usually prone to sweating, afraid of the wind, feeling weak, sweating after a little activity, catching a cold and looking pale when the weather changes slightly. Weak pulse. Treatment should be based on invigorating qi and consolidating exterior. Yupingfeng powder (or capsules, granules, etc.), a commercially available Chinese patent medicine. ) is effective for this type of sweating syndrome. Children patients can try to take "Long Mu Zhuanggu Granule". (Note: Chinese patent medicines should be taken under the guidance of Chinese medicine. If you feel unwell during taking the medicine, you should stop taking it in time. Take Chinese patent medicine for two weeks. If the curative effect is not good, stop taking the medicine. And please Chinese medicine according to the specific situation of patients, with decoction or preparation of pills, powder and other ways of treatment. All contents related to taking Chinese patent medicines should follow this instruction. )

2. disharmony between camp and guard: it is characterized by sweating from time to time and often feeling fever. The whole body is sour, especially when I feel that my back is not stretched. Sometimes it is sweating. Most patients think that they seem to have been in a state of cold. Treatment, mainly to reconcile camp and health. The commercially available Chinese patent medicine "Guizhi Granule" or "Guizhi Mixture" is effective for this type of sweating syndrome, but it may be difficult to buy in some places. Patients can ask Chinese medicine to prescribe decoction for treatment, and the effect will be better.

3. Heart-blood deficiency type: spontaneous sweating, some patients show spontaneous sweating and night sweats, or appear alternately. Most of them are accompanied by palpitation, palpitation, shortness of breath, dizziness, fatigue, insomnia, dreaminess, sallow complexion and other symptoms. The treatment mainly adopts the method of nourishing the heart and blood. Due to insufficient heart blood, it is often accompanied by qi deficiency, and it is necessary to cooperate with qi-invigorating drugs. Chinese patent medicines on the market such as Guipi Pill, Bazhen Pill and Shiquan Dabu Pill can all be tried.

4. Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire: manifested as night sweats, and some patients were accompanied by spontaneous sweating. Most of them have five symptoms: upset fever, obvious fever in the afternoon or evening, dry mouth and thirst, emotional irritability, insomnia and dreaminess, red tongue, less tongue coating and cracks on the tongue surface. This type of sweating syndrome has more obvious symptoms of fever and sweaty hands and feet. The treatment is mainly to nourish yin and reduce fire. The commercially available Chinese patent medicine "Baizhi Dihuang Pill" is effective for this type of sweating syndrome. Patients can also choose to take Maiwei Dihuang Pill, Qiju Dihuang Pill, Liuwei Dihuang Pill and other Chinese patent medicines according to the drug instructions.

These are the four common types of sweating syndrome. In fact, there are also sweating syndromes caused by pathological factors such as yang deficiency, yin and yang deficiency, hyperactivity of liver yang, damp-heat stasis and so on. Relatively speaking, it is not very common, so I won't go into details here. As for various types of sweating syndrome, it is suggested that the Chinese patent medicine to be tried should be more convenient for patients to take. As a patient, the safest way is to ask Chinese medicine practitioners to make a detailed and comprehensive dialectical analysis of your condition before deciding whether you can take it. Some patients have a long course of disease and complicated conditions, so it is more targeted and accurate to treat them with decoction and medicine.

Let's talk about the symptoms mainly manifested by sweating on hands and feet.

Only hands and feet are sweaty, and there is no pathological sweating in other parts of the body. It belongs to a kind of "localized hyperhidrosis" mentioned by western medicine and can be classified as a common dermatological disease. In terms of treatment, according to the specific situation of patients, it will be better to adopt simple external treatment or both internal and external treatment.

Simple hyperhidrosis of hands and feet, external treatment, more use of some dry and astringent drugs. For example, you can use 20g of Bletilla striata and 0/0 g of alum/kloc to wash your hands and feet. 15 minutes, once or twice a day. Alternatively, 20g of calcined longan, 20g of dried alum 10g, 20g of calamine and 0g of phellodendron amurense 15g can be processed into very fine powder, and a proper amount of powder can be applied to hands and feet and rubbed frequently (do not wash after rubbing, and keep it for one hour) no matter how many times a day. There are many such external treatments. As long as the patient has no allergic phenomenon after use, he can try to treat it for a period of time. Overall, the short-term effect is good.

Patients with simple sweaty hands and feet and mild illness only feel that their hands and feet are wet, and they will feel sweaty after emotional excitement, exercise and high temperature. In this case, we can try to use simple external treatment. However, some patients have very serious symptoms, and even their palms "drip every day, their feet sweat a lot in summer, and they will slip when wearing sandals" (described by one patient), which greatly affects their work and life. This kind of patients need to be treated both internally and externally, and should be treated mainly internally. Treatment is generally divided into two schemes: those with fever in hands and feet are mostly deficient in heart qi, so it is appropriate to replenish heart qi and sweat; Cold hands and feet, mostly spleen deficiency, should be treated mainly by invigorating spleen and benefiting qi and sweating. The latter, you can try to take a Chinese patent medicine such as "Jianpi Pill". However, according to my personal experience, serious simple hyperhidrosis of hands and feet, taking Chinese patent medicine is not effective, or try to use Chinese medicine decoction. The prescription should be based on the patient's specific physical condition.

Whether it is sweating all over the body as the main performance, or simply sweating hands and feet. If you take traditional Chinese medicine decoction, take it within three days, up to six days, and your symptoms will be obviously improved. Failure to achieve such a curative effect indicates that there is a deviation in prescription medication, so you should ask a doctor to adjust the prescription or find another clever Chinese medicine treatment. So as not to cause unnecessary delay and even make the condition more complicated.

Hyperhidrosis of hands and feet, diagnosed as autonomic nervous disorder by western medicine, can try taking oryzanol and vitamin B 1, which can relieve symptoms to varying degrees. Patients with hyperhidrosis of hands and feet should avoid using irritating bathing or cleaning products.