Excessive sweating
Name(s):
Hyperhidrosis
Excessive perspiration
Spontaneous sweating
Nature
In Chinese medicine, spontaneous sweating indicates that protective [qi] is not properly regulating the pores and that there may be a pattern of deficient [yang] or deficient [qi].
Incidence
Hyperhidrosis, an overactivity of the seat glands whose cause is unknown, makes people sweat so profusely that they are often humiliated at school or work. Their clothese may be drenched with sweat at normal room temperature. Sweaty palms prevent them from shaking hands comfortably, gripping a tool securely or working normally at a keyboard.
Aggravates
Disagreeable human body odour [in 1 loop]
Aggravated by
Value(s)
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems