Essentials for Diagnosis 
(1) Sweating over the head, neck, chest, or four limbs, or all over the body that is not affected by environmental conditions. Frequent sweating in the daytime aggravated on slight exertion is spontaneous sweating; continuous sweating that occurs during sleep and ceases on wakening is night sweating.

(2) Spontaneous sweating and night sweating may be seen in some other diseases, but they are among the symptoms and signs of those diseases. Sweating, in this case, is not the main manifestation. So it is necessary to make a clear distinction between hidrosis syndrome and other diseases in which spontaneous sweating and night sweating are present.

(3) Examinations such as blood sedimentation, T3, T4, basal metabolism rate, chest X-ray, sputum smear, and ASO test should be taken to rule out the possibilities ot hyperthyroidism, pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, etc.

In TCM, a disease or a symptom might be caused by one pathogenic factor, even two or three pathogenic factors. When diagnosing a disease or a symptom, TCM doctors must follow the principle of "Syndrome Dfferentiation", and then "Suit the Remedy to the Case". In order to gain a more definite and valuable diagnosis, it's important and necessary for the doctor to learn the detailed health information of the patient, including his/her disease duration, age, sex, height, weight, family history, urine, stool, diet, sleep, sweat, energy, mood (emotion), as well as the tongue conditions and the palm conditions, etc. If you would want our expert to create a TCM diagnosis, you're welcome to contact us.