Module 3: Sweating

Question 1

Inquiry into the details of sweating can clue us in on what?

Answer 1

the condition of the antipathogenic qi
disease location and thermal nature
state of the body fluids

Question 2

Cause of lack of sweating (Anhidrosis)?

Answer 2

a. Ext. WC
b. Int. yin xu
c. Int. yang xu

Question 3

Causes of profuse sweating?

Answer 3

a. Excess heat
b. Yang exhaustion
c. Yin exhaustion

Question 4

Cause of spontaneous sweating?

Answer 4

a. Ying/wei disharmony
b. Qi deficiency
c. Yang deficiency

Question 5

Cause of night sweats?

Answer 5

a. Excess damp accumulation
b. Excess shaoyang pattern
c. Deficiency Ht Blood Xu
d. Deficiency Kd Yin Xu

Question 6

Locations of sweating?

Answer 6

a. Half the body
b. Upper body
c. Lower body
d. Head
e. Chest
f. Hands/Feet
g. Armpit

Question 7

What kind of sweating is caused by Wind-Cold Ext Excess Invasion?

Answer 7

Anhidrosis – “Sweat Block”

Question 8

What kind of sweating is caused by Wind-Cold Ext Vacuity Invasion?

Answer 8

Profuse sweating: yang exhaustion

Question 9

What kind of sweating is caused by Wind-Heat Ext. Invasion?

Answer 9

Hot Sweating: sweat occurring during a fever

Question 10

Internal Replete Heat Patterns
What kind of sweating, where, and why?

Answer 10

Profuse sweating: excess heat
Location: Head
Yin Exhaustion (Blood sweating)

Question 11

Here there should be an “unsurfaced fever” and emission of sweat without the
resolution of heat.
Profuse sweating: excess heat

Answer 11

Damp-Heat Qi Aspect

Question 12

Damp-Heat Qi Aspect has what kind of sweating?

Answer 12

Here there should be an “unsurfaced fever” and emission of sweat without the
resolution of heat.
Profuse sweating: excess heat

Question 13

Profuse sweating: excess heat
Location: Head
Yin Exhaustion (Blood sweating)

Answer 13

Internal Replete Heat Patterns
Yang ming qi, yang ming fu, all organ heat

Question 14

Profuse sweating: excess heat
Usually transmitted from the middle burner
UB and LI obstruction by damp leads to inhibited urination and constipation with
hardness or fullness. Thirst from lack of steaming upwards from obstruction by damp and heat.
When damp-heat brews internally then the head is clogged from turbid phlegm misting the
clear orifices.
Gray-white, yellow and slimy tongue fur
Soggy + rapid pulse

Answer 14

Lower Burner Damp-Heat

Question 15

What is the cause of profuse sweating and what is the location?

Answer 15

excess heat
Location: Lower body

Question 16

Spontaneous sweating: qi deficiency
Usually spontaneous sweating accompanied by pale face, dizziness, SOB, lazy speech,
spirit-fatigue, lack of strength made worse with exertion.
Pale + flabby tongue and white fur
Vacuous pulse

Answer 16

Qi Vacuity Pattern

Question 17

Profuse sweating: yang exhaustion
Usually COLD sweating, night sweating and/or half-body sweating. This must be
accompanied by other yang vacuity signs like: fear of cold, cold limbs and a pale face.

Answer 17

Yang Vacuity Pattern

Question 18

Profuse sweating: yin exhaustion
Night sweating: deficiency kd yin xu
Usually night sweating, and/or half-body sweating, head sweating, sweating from the
hands/feet, spontaneous sweating, five palms sweating, steaming bone and tidal fever.
Red tongue with scanty dry fur
Fine and rapid pulse

Answer 18

Yin Vacuity Pattern

Question 19

Profuse sweating: yang exhaustion
The sweat should emerge clear, thin and cool. This must be accompanied by signs of a
serious pattern such as cool muscles and skin, “reversal cold” of the hands and feet, weak
breath, a weak pulse that is about to expire and either pale moist lips and tongue or greenblue-
purple lips and tongue.
Location: Head

Answer 19

Yang Collapse Pattern

Reversal cold of hand and feet means yang qi cant travel to hand and feet and is stuck on the inside instead of going out and profusing, from so much cold

Question 20

The sweat should emerge hot and sticky, this should be accompanied by hot skin and
muscles, warm hands and feet, red cheekbones, spirit fatigue, agitation and vexation, SOB,
rough panting, preference for drinking cold fluids.
Red tongue with a dry coat
Rapid, racing and forceless pulse
Profuse sweating: yin exhaustion
Location: Head

Answer 20

Yin Collapse Pattern

Question 21

Palpitations, dull/pale complexion, insomnia, tiredness, poor memory, dream disturbed
sleep, reduced appetite, pale lips, abdominal distention, anxiety, propensity to be easily
startled, dizziness, loose stools, scanty menstruation, weak muscles.
Profuse sweating: yang exhaustion

Answer 21

Heart and Spleen Blood Vacuity * (GIO 581):

Question 22

What is needed for sweat?

Answer 22

yang qi, body fluids, pores

Question 23

What is profuse sweating?

Answer 23

excessive perspiration on the skin, over evaporation of fluids

Question 24

What is anhidrosis?

Answer 24

Lack of sweating

Question 25

What is spontaneous sweating?

Answer 25

Frequent sweating during the day, absent of any sweat inducing activity. Comes about with minor exertion

Question 26

What are night sweats?

Answer 26

Sweating that occurs when asleep, stops upon awakening

Question 27

What is the Dx for lack of sweating (anhidrosis)

Answer 27

Wind-Cold Ext Excess

Question 28

What is the Dx for profuse sweating?

Answer 28

Wind-Cold Ext Vacuity Invasion