night sweats

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Todd

When I first read the question I relised that sometimes I do not

understand things in TCM , that is I just know them. As is in this case

, I always knew yin xu equals nightsweats but am not able to explain

why. I am glad your student asked you and not one of my students asking

me.

 

I looked under Benski and Liu wei di huang wan and only found that " when

the yin is deficient ,it is unable to retain substances during the

night, which is the time associated with yin [and] this causes

nightsweats "

 

I ask then " is the yin responsible for holding things together at

night? "

 

In Benski under dang gui liu huang wan it says " during sleep the

protective qi enters the yin ;when the yin is deficient ,it is unable

to restrain the yang ,especially in the exterior.This leads to

instability of the exterior, especially at night .The unrestrained yang

and the

fire from deficiency push the fluids out of the body in the form of

sweat, which the deficient yin is unable to restrain [and] night sweats

ensue "

 

OK I admit it .......I read this a few times and I still don't really

understand why the sweat is more at night.I ask something like " why does

the yin xu molar flush get worse in the afternoon AND not at night? "

 

Gary (Sydney) ,Z'ev , anyone ........???

 

Heiko