Some Teas and Soups That Can Help Stop Hot Flashes and Night Sweats

There are certain food recipes and teas in Chinese medicine you can use to prevent night sweats. Night sweats are symptoms of hot flashes. Chinese medicine practitioners usually recommend to women suffering from night sweats and hot flashes to avoid eating spicy and hot foods like cinnamon, pepper, ginger, mustard and fennel, as well as, fruits like lychee and meat such as mutton. They instead should consume nourishing and cooling foods that will control the yang and enrich the yin.

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

For night sweats, Chinese medicine recommends certain teas to relieve this discomfort. They may be a mixture of shriveled wheat, red dates, mulberry leaf, and smoked plum mixed in water and boiled for an hour and then drunk.

A tea made up of dried red dates and immature peach can be recommended for night sweats. As with most teas, it is mixed with water, boiled and then drunk. Another beneficial herbal tea for both night sweats and hot flashes is made up of rhemannia rhizome, smoked plums, red dates, and hairyvein agrimonia. Honey can be added if the tea tastes too bitter.

The problem of night sweats can also be resolved by eating some soups. One such soup is prepared with dried and baked mulberry leaves that’s grounded into fine powder and then placed in a serving of rice soup.

A soup consisting of white fungus, lily bulb, rock, sugar, and rice can be good for night sweats. A soup made up of chicken, catfish, black soybean and prepared with malt sugar and rehmannia root is also deemed ideal for hot flashes and night sweats. Meat eaters can try rabbit meat soup mixed with coastal glehnia roots and Solomonseal rhizome.

The most important thing in avoiding night sweats is to live a good work life balance. This is why most practitioners will advice women with frequent hot flashes and night sweats to live a less stressful life and exercise regularly. They should also change clothes frequently and stay in well-ventilated rooms. Before going to be bed, they should also bath and drink lots of water to keep themselves adequately hydrated.

Amy-SuiQun Lui, L.Ac.
Asian Health Center
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