How To Stop Excessive Sweating Naturally

Hyperhidrosis is a condition, occurring up to 3% of the world population and involves excessive sweating of the hands, face, underarms, and feet.

In the case of hyperhidrosis, the control of ones sympathetic nerves become unpredictable and completely uncontrollable.

People with hyperhidrosis may sweat even when the temperature is cool or when they are at rest.

Excessive sweating has four major types:

1. Palmar Hyperhidrosis (sweaty palms) is a condition marked by excessive sweating of the hands and palms beyond physiological necessity.

2. Axillary Hyperhidrosis (sweaty underarms)is caused when your sympathetic nervous system over-activates with the sweat glands in your underarm thus causing excessive underarm sweat and constant odor that is usually resistant to all deodorants.

3. Facial Hyperhidrosis (facial sweating) is stimulated by slight increasing in temperature and humidity. Victims of facial hyperhidrosis tend to suffer high anxiety levels and have low self-esteem.

4. Plantar Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating of the feet) usually occurs in conjunction with excessive sweating of the hand and one of the most disturbing aspects of plantar hyperhidrosis for those affected is smelly feet.

Symptoms of hyperhidrosis often become noticeable during childhood and adolescence. Often times, excessive sweating are related to an increase in the metabolic rate of the body.

The sympathetic nervous system controls the sweating throughout the body and any excessive activity of the sympathetic nervous system is believed to be responsible for excessive sweating. Some of the common triggers that causes the sympathetic nervous system to responds strongly include:

• Stress


• Heat intolerance


• Anxiety and Nervousness


• Fatigue


• Irregular and Scant Menstrual Flow


• Exercise


• Low Blood Sugar


• Overactive Thyroid Gland


• Spicy Foods


• Warm Temperatures

While too much physical activities or heat are common triggers to sweating, it may also occur without stimuli. In such case, an underlying medical condition or disease could be causing it. To know if you have hyperhidrosis, look for the following symptoms:

1. Excessive sweating on the soles, armpits, palms, breasts or groin.


2. Presence of macerated skin


3. Skin cracking or scaling

1. Your Diet. You may be surprised how the food we eat may be directly linked to excessive sweating. If you would like to prevent abnormal excessive sweating, avoid drinking alcohol and eating spicy foods. These foods act as stimulant and increases thermogenesis (internal heat) in our body causing our body to sweat!
   
   On the other hand, olive oil has been known to be able to help control excessive underarm sweat since olive oil is a healthy fat that lowers cholesterol and blood pressure. Add some in your salad and food, daily.
   
   
2. Sage tea. Approved by the German government as a means for controlling sweating, drink sage tea to stop excessive sweating. Sage tea act as an astringent to dry the skin and reduces secretions of the sweat glands, thus preventing excessive sweating for many days to follow.
   
   Brew it and drink 3 times daily, preferably after meals, plus an additional cup for bedtime if you are suffering from hot flashes or night sweats too.
   
   
3. Acupuncture. The Chinese belief that when a healthy person suffer from some medical disorder such as shortness of breath, sinus infection or excessive sweating, it is the result of an imbalance of the body's vital energy, or Qi.
   
   To correct such imbalance, acupuncture has been shown to be able to help improve the circulation of our body's vital energy and regulate our body hormones to help reduce excessive sweating.
   
   
4. Self Hypnosis. Our human body has the capacity to become conditioned through hypnosis to stop excessive sweating
   
   Excessive sweating is usually caused by our own sympathetic nervous system, when too many signals are being sent from our sympathetic nervous system to the sweat glands causing unnecessarily high sweat production.
   
   Using self hypnosis, we can calm our own sympathetic nervous system and thus reduce the activity of this part of our nervous system, resulting in reduces sweating. Find out how self hypnosis can help you control and stop excessive sweating!