How is sweating caused?

Deficiency sweat refers to the body deficiency sweat, deficiency sweat is more common in patients with chronic illness and physical deficiency, elderly patients, women postpartum, menopausal women. Chronic illness qi and blood deficiency, qi deficiency, loose striae, so the ability to absorb sweat drops, so deficiency sweat. Elderly patients often see spleen and kidney deficiency, kidney essence deficiency, acquired loss of nutrition, the same will cause qi deficiency, female menopause kidney yin and yang deficiency, so there will be deficiency sweat. Women fetal blood loss, qi with blood loss, so postpartum body deficiency, easy to sweat. Therefore, patients with deficiency sweat should be based on the principle of tonifying spleen and kidney and nourishing qi and blood.