MC: Hello listeners, how are you? Let’s live healthy. This is Jinseo Lee who is hosting this hour. Usually, when you do hard physical labor, you notice that your body starts to sweat. And even when you are very sick and have a fever, you sweat. Let’s call Bonghee Han, an oriental medicine doctor in Seoul, to find out more about sweat, which signals changes in the body’s condition.
reporter: Hello Teacher.
Han Bong-hee, Oriental medicine doctor: Hello reporter?
reporter: It doesn’t seem like everyone sweats when their body is hot. What does it mean to be cold even when you have a fever?
Han Bong-hee, Oriental medicine doctor: When you catch a cold, you first get chills, shiver and feel cold, and then get a fever. In Oriental medicine, it is divided into wind and cold dampness, wind and heat dampness, and cool damp dampness, and the causes and treatments for each are different. First, cold gammo causes a feeling of cold and fever, a stuffy nose, hoarseness, and clear runny nose. It is accompanied by coughing and thin phlegm, and in severe cases, the whole body hurts, but there is no sweating, the tongue becomes white and clogged, and the pulse becomes a floating pulse.
The second is wind and heat loss. Symptoms of this include fever, aversion to wind, and sweating. Additionally, headache, cough, thick yellow phlegm, swelling and pain in the throat, dry mouth, the bottom of the tongue becomes thin and yellow, and the pulse becomes faster, which is called fast pulse. You can tell by checking your pulse when you have a fever. You can sense that your pulse is beating quickly.
The third is Seoseupgammo. When heat and humidity are dominant, the body becomes hot with symptoms of wind loss, sweating profusely, chest discomfort, mouth dry, urine output is small, and the color becomes yellow or red. The bottom of the tongue becomes yellow and oily, and the veins become smooth. When wetness is dominant, the fever is not severe, but it is chilly, the head feels very heavy and painful, and the limbs are swollen, heavy, and painful. Additionally, the tip of the solar plexus is swollen and stuffy, there is no appetite, and the bottom of the tongue appears greasy.
Depending on whether you are sensitive to a cold wind, a hot wind, or something hot and humid, the symptoms are slightly different, the tone and pulse are different, and the medicines used are also different accordingly.
reporter: Do you always have a fever when you’re sick?
Han Bong-hee, Oriental medicine doctor: Not everyone who is sick has a fever. A fever means that an inflammatory response is occurring in the body. If you have symptoms of infection, you will develop a fever. Fever occurs when the body’s immune cells fight bacteria or viruses. At this time, pain occurs and various symptoms occur.
Depending on the type of bacteria or virus that has invaded the body, symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, or difficulty urinating may also occur. Most infectious diseases, such as respiratory diseases, paratyphoid, and typhoid, cause symptoms of fever. After about 1 to 3 weeks, the respiratory symptoms transform into urological diseases related to the kidneys and bladder, but in this case, there is no fever.
reporter: What should I be careful about when wiping a wet towel when lowering a fever?
Han Bong-hee, Oriental medicine doctor: In dramas, you can see scenes such as putting a towel soaked in cold water on the forehead or placing it in ice when a person has a fever.
It is helpful to do this rather than taking fever reducers right away when you have a fever. During the process of developing a fever, the body’s immune system fights the virus, giving the body time to recognize the virus and develop antibodies.
If you use antibiotics and fever reducers as soon as you have a fever, it will be difficult for your body to produce antibodies. So, the next time the same virus comes in, you will get a fever again and your symptoms will get worse. You don’t get the same virus every time, but once you develop antibodies, if the same virus comes in, it passes easily or doesn’t cause infection at all.
The reason why you cool your forehead with a wet towel when you have a fever is because in the human body, water must go up and heat must go down. The nature of heat and fire originally goes up, but it has to come down in the body. When heat builds up in your head, you get a headache, your head feels heavy, your eyes become bloodshot, and your face turns red. You may also hear tinnitus, your skin may become rough, acne, and redness may appear.
Brain nerve cells are made up of proteins, and proteins are weak to heat. Therefore, when the head becomes hot, protein denaturation occurs due to heat and brain function abnormalities occur, so wipe the forehead with a cold wet towel to reduce the heat of the head.
reporter: What should I do if I want to sweat, but I can’t sweat?
Han Bong-hee, Oriental medicine doctor: Among Sasang people, if Taeeumin does not sweat, he or she is suffering from a serious illness, so it is normal for Taeeumin to sweat. On the other hand, when a Soeumin person sweats, he or she loses body fluids and becomes even more exhausted.
There are times when you need to sweat, but you don’t. In this case, the timing of sweating is important, and it is also necessary to control the pace and speed of sweating. It is important whether you should pay a lot or a reasonable amount. It is said that if you force yourself to sweat, your lifespan will be shortened. This is a method that is used when no one who needs to sweat comes.
Sweating should be done mainly in summer. If it’s too hot in the summer and you can’t sweat, your body’s metabolic function will be impaired and body temperature control will be problematic, so your body will dissipate heat through sweat. However, if you do not sweat in the summer, you can use a method to make you sweat.
When you sweat in the winter, body heat is lost along with sweat, which lowers your immunity, makes you feel colder, and hurts your body. Therefore, you must sweat in the summer. Sweat should occur in the morning. They said it shouldn’t be too early and you shouldn’t avoid the morning, and if you’re in a hurry, it doesn’t matter whether it’s early morning or night.
Since the morning belongs to the positive energy and the afternoon belongs to the negative energy, you should not sweat in the afternoon. When you sweat, you should cover your head with clothes or a blanket, wrap your feet, take medicine while exposed to fire, and sweat slowly. It is recommended to sweat for about two hours to ensure that your hands and feet are evenly moistened.
Do not let water drip down. When you sweat, sweat drips from the area above your waist, but if only a little sweat comes out from your waist to the soles of your feet, the disease will not be completely cured, so it is best to let the sweat flow between your waist and legs.
reporter: Please correct our common misconceptions about heat and sweat.
Han Bong-hee, Oriental medicine doctor: You should only sweat for symptoms that require you to sweat. When sweat is on the skin, it must be dissipated through sweat, and at this time, it must be sweated to wet the body.
For strokes, strokes, and all miscellaneous diseases, if the disease is on the list, you have to sweat. There are also symptoms that prevent sweating. People with spears should not sweat even if they are sick. This is because it is difficult to treat diseases when you sweat. And people who suffer from nosebleeds should not sweat. This is the same for all blood loss. Blood and sweat have different names, but they are the same thing. If you bleed, sweat disappears, and if you sweat, blood disappears, so you should not sweat.
The reason the blood moves uncontrollably is because the heat is oppressing it, but if you sweat, it actually helps heat death and dries up the fluid, which will inevitably turn into a bad symptom. Also, if you sweat too much, your energy will be damaged. Sweat is originally meant to help yang, but when yang receives yin energy and the cold energy accumulates but has no form, you must radiate and eliminate the yin energy to restore yang energy.
Since sweating is a loss of yang energy, it can lead to hemorrhoids and the disease becomes deeper, making treatment difficult. Likewise, if you know what you should and should not sweat, when and how to sweat, and deal with it accordingly, it can help treat diseases and restore your body.
reporter: Thank you very much today.
Han Bong-hee, Oriental medicine doctor: thank you Hello everyone.
Let’s live healthily Today, we have given you some advice on the ins and outs of sweat from Oriental medicine doctor Bonghee Han in Seoul. So far, it has been Jinseo Lee from Washington.
Editor Jinseo Lee, Web Manager Kyeongha Lee
2024-01-08 13:00:00
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