How to distinguish night sweats from sweating

Night sweat refers to a large amount of sweating when sleeping at night, and stops sweating after waking up. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that night sweat is mostly due to deficiency of yin qi, relative hyperactivity of yang qi, imbalance of yin and yang, internal heat caused by yin deficiency, and leakage of body fluid caused by internal heat. Therefore, night sweat can sweat a lot when sleeping at night, and sweat stops after waking up. From this aspect, it can be seen that night sweat is a pathological phenomenon, and sweating refers to physiological adaptation phenomenon. Sweating has many causes, such as warm sweating, which is caused by the increase of external temperature, and sweating to emit heat and regulate body temperature; mental sweating, which is caused by mental excitement or pain stimulation; and other phenomena, such as sports sweating, which refers to sweat produced after physiological exercise. Therefore, sweating and night sweats are very different.