How Chinese Nutritional Therapy Can Help Prevent Night Sweats In Women

Night sweats are oftentimes symptoms of hot flashes and in Chinese medicine, there are specific foods and tea recipes that can help prevent them from occurring. In TCM or traditional Chinese medicine, women suffering from night sweats and hot flashes and night sweats are advised not to eat spicy and hot foods.

They are also advised to avoid eating fruits like lychee as well as mutton and herbs such as cinnamon, pepper, ginger, mustard, and fennel. Instead, they should be taking in nourishing and cooling foods that can help rein in their yang and enrich their yin.

Recommended foods include loquat fruit, radish, lotus seed, water chestnut, Chinese cabbage, soybean sprout, tomato, peach, orange, pears, honey, root of lotus, white fungus, and lily bulb as well as eels, duck, oyster, conch, sea cucumber, cuttlefish, and liver.

For night sweats, there are some teas that can be beneficial for their condition. These teas may include a mixture of shriveled wheat, red dates, mulberry leaf, and smoked plum all boiled for an hour in water then drunk.

Red dates and dried immature peach is another mixture that can be served as tea for night sweat problems. They are also boiled in water for an hour and then drunk. In addition, you can also drink herbal teas made of processed rhizome of Rehmannia, smoked plums, red dates, and hairy vein agrimonia herb that can be added with honey as sweetener.

Some women experiencing light night sweats may find relief from some soups. Some of these soups are made from dried and baked mulberry leaves that are grounded into fine powder and then placed in a bowl of rice soup.

Equally beneficial for mild night sweat problems is a soup made of white fungus, lily bulb, rock sugar, and rice. Considered good for the health are chicken soup, catfish soup, and black soybean soup added with malt sugar and root of Rehmannia. People who love eating meat may avail themselves of soup made out of rabbit meat mixed with roots of coastal glehnia and fragrant rhizome of Solomon seal.

But the most important thing of all to prevent the occurrence of nights is to preserve a good work life balance. This is why most Chinese medicine practitioners require their women patients with night sweat problems to live a less stressful lifestyle and to moderately exercise on a regular basis. They are also advised to change clothes frequently and stay in well-ventilated rooms. Before going to bed, they also need to bathe first and drink adequate amounts of water to keep their bodies well-hydrated.

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