Dreaming every night and sweating heavily every time you wake up. It is puzzling that when you wake up, the sweating automatically stops. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, this disease is called ‘night sweat syndrome’.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that night sweats are mostly caused by overwork and staying up late. Overwork may cause deficiency of yin essence and internal deficiency heat. Mulberry leaves are sweet and cold in nature, sweet can benefit Qi, nourish blood and replenish yin, and cold can relieve heat, which is suitable for the treatment of night sweats with yin deficiency and fire. Modern scientific research shows that rutin and quercetin in mulberry leaves can reduce the permeability of capillaries, thereby having a sweat-suppressing effect.

Method: Take several dried mulberry leaves, crush them into powder and reserve them. Take 9 grams before going to bed every night, and take it with millet soup. One week is a course of treatment.

Although the secret of mulberry leaves’ sweat-suppressing effect is not very clear, many clinical facts have already proved that it is indeed effective.

This mulberry leaf prescription is actually not only used for night sweat syndrome, but can also be used for excessive sweating during the day (known as night sweat syndrome), and can usually achieve ideal effects. However, it should be noted that night sweat can also be caused by other diseases, such as tuberculosis, hyperthyroidism, tumor, and so on, which may cause this disease. In this case, the small prescription of mulberry leaves is not very effective, and this should be noted.

Mulberry leaves are a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, with key functions such as expelling wind and heat, detoxifying, clearing heat and fire, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. They are commonly used to treat symptoms such as wind-heat exogenous diseases, red eyes, headache, hot cough, hemoptysis, nosebleed, and others. In fact, mulberry leaves are also a wonder drug for treating recurrent night sweats (night sweat syndrome). In the ‘Yi Jin Zhi’ of the Song Dynasty, there is a story recorded: A wandering monk staying temporarily in a mountain temple in Yanzhou was thin and weak, with very little food, and every night after falling asleep, he would sweat all over his body. The next morning, when he got up, his clothes were wet with sweat. According to the monk’s own admission, this condition had lasted for 20 years, and all the drugs had been used up, but there was no effect. A monk in the temple said: ‘I have an excellent secret recipe. I will treat you for it.’ After three days, the monk’s chronic illness was cured. The recipe is: take mulberry leaves, dry and grind into powder, take two qian each day, and take it with warm water on an empty stomach. Mulberry leaves have a sweat-suppressing effect, and this is also mentioned in ancient medical books. The earliest ‘Shen Nong’s Materia Medica’ has the record of mulberry leaves ‘removing heat and cold, and stopping sweating’.