Actually, once the damage reaches a certain point, one of two things tends to happen:
1. Excessive sweating 2. No sweating
Excessive sweating is generally more common, while a lack of sweat is relatively uncommon. The symptoms caused by SY tend to fall at two extremes: some people have excessively oily skin, while others have dry skin. Oily skin is more common. Medicine classifies sweating into several distinct types, including spontaneous sweating, night sweats, sweating of the head, sweating on one side of the body, and sweating of the palms and soles. The most common are spontaneous sweating and night sweats. Spontaneous sweating means sweating involuntarily for no apparent reason, usually during the day when it is neither hot nor are you exercising. In medical terms, night sweats occur while you are asleep and stop once you wake up. Kidney deficiency caused by SY, whether it is kidney yang deficiency or kidney yin deficiency, can cause excessive sweating. Many people sweat so much that they look as if they have been washed all over. Traditional Chinese medicine says, “Sweat is the essence of vital energy.” Heavy sweating damages yang, and losing too much sweat is extremely detrimental to recovery. So if you suffer from excessive sweating, it’s best to seek medical attention promptly and combine it with Chinese medicine treatment. Once the sweating is under control, your recovery should improve considerably and become more stable than before.
Some people trying to quit also ask why they feel great after sweating during exercise, without any discomfort. This can only mean that your yang energy has not yet been damaged to that extent. Once it has, sweating heavily like that will be very harmful to your health. That’s why when your body is weak, you are generally advised to rest quietly and limit exercise to walking. It’s somewhat like nocturnal emissions: many people who are in good health feel no discomfort at all after one, but some people who used to indulge excessively find that even one emission…
