Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating

How to recognize Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating

The signs that point most strongly to this pattern:

1. Sweating in the daytime for no reason, worse with mild effort
2. Dislike of wind and drafts
3. Catching every cold, one after another
4. Tiredness, a pale face
5. Hay fever or a runny nose that flares with wind

Also common

• Shortness of breath on effort
• A weak voice
• Feeling cold after sweating
• Chronic hives that come with wind

Tongue

Pale with a thin white coat.

Pulse

Floating and weak.

Formulas for Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating

Herbs that matter most for Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating

• Huang Qi Root of Membranous Milkvetch Astragalus firms the surface and stops the sweat.
• Bai Zhu Rhizome of Largehead Atractylodes Atractylodes feeds the defensive qi from the Spleen.
• Fang Feng Divaricate Saposhnikovia Root Siler patrols the surface against wind.
• Fu Xiao Mai Floating Wheat Light wheat holds the sweat in.
• Mu Li Oyster Shell Oyster shell stops sweating.
• Wu Wei Zi Chinese Magnoliavine Fruit Schisandra holds in both sweat and Lung qi.

How Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating differs from its look-alikes

• Lung Qi Deficiency The same root with the breath and voice signs leading. This pattern is the surface version: sweating and colds.
• Kidney Yin Deficiency with Empty Heat Yin deficiency sweats at night with heat and a red tongue. Exterior deficiency sweats in the day, cool, with a pale tongue.

What drains into Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating

• Lung and Spleen qi deficiency
• Repeated colds that each took a little more
• Long illness or overwork
• Too much sweating from heat, exercise, or saunas

Food and habits that help Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating

• Keep the neck covered in wind; the back of the neck is the gate.
• No saunas or hard sweating until the screen is rebuilt.
• Warm cooked food to feed the Spleen that feeds the guard.
• Start the formula before cold season, not during a cold.

What should change as Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating improves

• Daytime sweating eases within two to three weeks.
• Colds come less often over a season.
• The dislike of drafts fades as the surface firms.

Conditions where Exterior Deficiency with Spontaneous Sweating shows up