On Sweat by Inner Classic
ZHENG Han
LU Mingyuan
Abstract：Sweat is one of the five fluids of human body,and sweat pattern is a common disease in clinic. There are many discussions on sweat in the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic. Therefore the content on sweat in Inner Classic was summarized. Such contents includes the concept of sweat,the mechanism of sweating, the physiological and pathological relationships with the internal organs,sweat pattern,and the diagnostic val-ue of sweat and the clinical application of inducing sweat. Based on this summarization ,the abnormal sweat-ing was divided into five zang-organ types according to the pathogenic factors ,which is helpful for the de-velopment of the fundamentals of traditional Chinese medicine ,to guide the clinical practice.
Keywords：Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classicmechanism of sweatingabnormal sweatingfive zang-organs type
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 9-10,32 )