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MENTAL MODEL · M2399

Spontaneous Sweating / Zi Han

Spontaneous Sweating / Zi Han
BehaviorHigh supportOrganizational Behavior
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Updated 2026-08-01

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

A pattern in Chinese medicine: sweat appears during the day at rest and increases with any activity, attributed to deficient qi failing to secure the defensive yang and the pores. It is distinguished from night sweating, which occurs during sleep, and from the sweating that follows chills. The body's gate is likened to a lock that will not stay closed, because qi is too weak to hold the surface. Treatment strengthens qi and stabilizes the exterior, classically with formulas such as Yupingfeng San, and modern medical causes must also be ruled out.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

psychology

Reduce cognitive load

- Read the Leak: treat uncontrolled loss as a failure of containment rather than of supply - Locate the Gate: find which boundary is no longer holding against the load - Reinforce the Surface: restore the capacity to hold before adding more input

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Anchor fast decisions

The defensive layer at the body surface acts as a boundary that regulates what passes in and out; when the qi maintaining it is deficient, the boundary stays loose and fluid escapes continuously, worsening whenever activity raises internal pressure. Because the loss is a containment failure rather than an overflow of excess, treatment adds force to the boundary instead of draining or cooling. Persistent loss also depletes the person further, so the pattern tends to reinforce itself until the boundary is restored.

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