Sweating is natural, but excessive sweat production is very uncomfortable for many people. Homeopathic remedies can naturally help reduce sweat production.
Overview of article content:
Why do we sweat?
Everyone sweats. The secretion of sweat is a completely natural process that serves to protect the body from overheating. The vital regulation of body temperature is achieved by the fact that water contained in sweat evaporates on the body surface. This removes heat from the skin and regulates the temperature on the inside of the body. In addition, unnecessary and harmful substances are excreted from the body through sweat.
During physical activity or high temperatures, sweat production is increased, because in these cases the body needs a lot of cooling. The same applies to fever, here too the body tries to lower the body temperature by sweating.
Hyperhidrosis: pathological sweating
If a person sweats significantly more than is necessary for heat regulation, one speaks of hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating). Possible triggers include infections, hyperthyroidism, diabetes or hormonal regulatory disorders. In many cases, however, no obvious cause can be found. This is called idiopathic hyperhidrosis.
The treatment of hyperhidrosis can be tried in different ways, but is often lengthy. In addition to the use of so-called antiperspirants, medications and injections can be used to reduce excessive sweat production.
Homeopathic help for excessive sweating
Homeopathic medicines can provide natural help for excessive sweating and their use often supports other treatments very well.
To use a homeopathic medicine for hyperhidrosis, globules, drops or tablets can be used. The selected drug should be used daily for a longer period of time for idiopathic low potency hyperhidrosis (D6 or D12) in order to assess the success of treatment.
If the increased sweating is an acute event, the agent should be administered once (repeat if necessary on the following day) in potency D30. If homeopathic treatment for an underlying disease is considered as the reason for hyperhidrosis, this should be carried out as part of homeopathic therapy by a trained homeopath.
Homeopathic complex remedies for hyperhidrosis contain a combination of the usual medicines and are taken after the package insert.
What homeopathic remedies for sweating?
The following homeopathic remedies are often helpful in treating excessive sweating:
Acidum sulfuricum: with increased sweating, hot flashes and night sweats, mostly triggered by stress, often accompanied by acid regurgitation, canker sores, joint pain and fatigue
Belladonna: with sweating as a side effect of flu, cough, runny nose and other infections, with sweating due to ear, tooth and headache, colic and sleep disorders, usually the head is very sweaty and the face red, the sick are very sensitive to touch and vibrations
Calcium carbonicum: profuse sweating with little exertion, night sweats, in children the head is sweaty all over, the sweat is foul smelling, often during sweats during menopause
Cantharis: Sweat that smells like horse urine
Conium: profuse sweating immediately after falling asleep
China officinalis: Sweats associated with flu infections, rheumatic diseases, gastrointestinal complaints and anemia, those affected recover very poorly and slowly from an illness, profuse sweating with the slightest movement
Ferrum phosphoricum: Follow-up sweat, which exhausts the person concerned, the person affected is pale, weak and often there is anemia
Jaborandi: often used remedy for hormonal sweating such as during menopause or thyroid disease
Potassium iodatum: Sweating related to infections, thyroid disorders and joint pain
Mercurius solubilis: Night sweats, foul-smelling sweat, the head is very sweaty, the rest of the body is dry
Silicea: foul-smelling sweat, especially on the feet, persistent sweating, so that the skin is constantly covered by a sweat film, there is a general weakness but also a weakness of the connective tissue
Nitricum acidum: Sweaty smell of urine, the sweating skin shows tears and cracks
Pulsatilla: Sweat only occurs on one side of the body
Sambucus: Sweat only flows when you are awake, sweats mostly in connection with colds and flu infections, most of the time those affected are heavily mucus-covered
Sepia: often in connection with menopause, sweat smells (strong sweat smell), hands and feet are mostly cold
Thuja: Sweat predominantly on uncovered parts of the body, n malodorous sweat, violent sweats, mostly in connection with infectious diseases or hormonally triggered
Veratrum album: Sweating and freezing at the same time
Choosing the right remedy for sweating
In order to more easily determine which homeopathic medicine is suitable for those affected, the remedies can be classified according to their main characteristics. In certain situations you can choose from the most common and common means.
Violent night sweats
Sulfur: Sweat is hot, sour, smelly
Pulsatilla: warm sweat, violent dreams
Mercurius solubilis: Sweat is sticky, greasy, colors the laundry
Psorinum: debilitating, carrion-like smell
Excessive sweat before rain and storm
- Rhus toxicodendron: mostly in connection with rheumatism
Excessive armpit sweat
Acidum phosphoricum: debilitating, very abundant
Acidum sulfuricum: smelly but doesn't like to wash
Petroleum: malodorous
Sepia: sticky
Excessive sweat on the arms
- Petroleum: stinking sweat on the arms, under the armpits and in the genitals
Excessive sweat when falling asleep
Conium: warm sweat
Arsenicum album: cold sweat, heavy foot sweat
Sulfur: hot, sour, foul-smelling sweat, burning soles of the feet
Calcium carbonicum: cold sweat, the shoes are full of water, the skin peels
Silicea: sharp, miraculous sweat
Lycopodium: Sweat smells of urine and onions, left foot is warm, right foot is cold
Barium carbonicum: foul-smelling foot sweat in children and the elderly
Graphites: smelly, often in overweight children, the skin becomes cracked
Excessive sweat in the genital region
Sulfur: malodorous, sour, hot
Thuja: warm sweat, stinks of fish brine
Petroleum: sharp sweat, strong smell
Sepia: predominantly in women, sour, cheesy smell
Crocus: with increased libido
Sweaty hands
Sulfur: malodorous, sour, hot
Pulsatilla: warm sweat, those affected are full of inhibitions and blush easily
Jodum: Hands are dripping wet, often with hyperthyroidism
Ferrum phosphoricum: very fluid sweat
Gelsemicum: especially stage fright, dripping wet
Coffea: dripping wet hands in happy events
Excessive head sweat in children
Calcium carbonicum: mostly at night, with exertion, acidic, especially on the back of the head
Calcium phosphoricum: at night, whole head affected
Silicea: exhausted at night, on the forehead and on the hairy head
Chamomilla: hot sweat, especially in the area of the skull, angry
Excessive sweat only on the body, not on the head
Rhus toxicodendron: sharp sweat
Sambucus niger: almost only in adults, smells like elderflower
Sepia: sour, smelly sweat
Excessive sweat on the thighs
- Borax: especially in warm weather
Sweating only on covered parts of the body
- Belladonna: in fever, with delirium and hallucinations
Sweating only on uncovered parts of the body
- Thuja: foul-smelling sweat
What else helps with excessive sweating?
There are a number of ways to get active yourself in hyperhidrosis. The use of breathable clothing, regular exercise, Kneipp treatments, saunas, a low-salt diet and the absence of alcohol, coffee and spicy foods can prevent excessive sweating.
Good body hygiene, regular changing of clothes and deodorants help against an unpleasant body odor. If the sweating attacks occur in connection with stress or excitement, regular relaxation and breathing exercises, yoga or meditation techniques can help.
Various herbal preparations, teas, oils and additives for baths and washes can be tried to prevent sweating. The following list gives an overview of these home remedies:
Drink sage tea or wash off with the tea
Washes with a brew of oak bark
Black Cohosh (especially during menopause)
soothing medicinal herbs such as passion flower, lemon balm, lavender and valerian. These can be drunk as tea or you can wash off with the broth
Bach flower blends, especially rescue drops for stress
essential oils as additives in creams, soaps and baths such as tea tree oil, rose, citronella, sage, thuja spruce, pine, rosemary, lemongrass and cypress