Natural Treatments For Excessive Sweating
What is sweat? First, it’s important to know why we sometimes sweat excessively: it regulates body temperature. When the skin is warmer than normal, your body starts to sweat to cool it down.
That’s why you sweat when you are hot, when you enter a room with a higher temperature, when you have a fever, when you are out in the sun, when the temperature rises above 29°C or when you are exercising.
Sweat is secreted by your glands and consists of a mixture of water, mineral salts, amino acids and urea. While you also sweat from your pores, it is most concentrated in your sweat glands and that is where most of the sweat comes from. That is why it is your face, armpits, palms and soles where you perspire the most.
Sweat helps you filter the impurities from your bloodstream (such as alcohol, oil or tobacco residue). That’s the simple answer from the encyclopedia, but what happens when you sweat excessively?
Excessive sweating, or hyperhidrosis, occurs when there is a change in your sympathetic nervous system, causing your body to sweat more to regulate your temperature.
Many people who suffer from this problem also notice that it depends on the weather (for example, if it is hot or sweltering). It can also depend on your emotional mood. That means that when someone is very nervous, anxious, stressed or depressed, they may sweat more.
If the problem was just that you were exuding a little more fluid under your armpits, it would just be a pain. But it’s more annoying when it’s also accompanied by odor, irritation, skin fungus and more.
What Are the Best Natural Treatments for Excessive Sweating?
Treatment #1 for Hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 1 liter of water
- 4 green tea bags (or the same weight in loose tea)
Preparation
Bring all ingredients to a boil, then cook for 15 minutes and then allow to cool. Then rinse your hands, feet and armpits with the moisture. Sourness is a natural astringent.
Treatment #2 for Hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 1 liter of water
- 2 tablespoons dried sage
Preparation
Bring the water and sage to a boil and then simmer for three minutes. Then remove from heat and let cool. Then strain the liquid and add it to a bathtub filled with warm water.
You can also pour it into a bowl to soak your hands and feet. You can also apply moisture with a sponge under your armpits. Then rinse it off with cold water. You can also drink sage tea on top of that as an alternative (one teaspoon of sage per cup of boiling water).
Treatment #3 for Hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 10 ml apple cider vinegar
- 20ml water
Preparation
Mix these two ingredients together and then drink them every morning for breakfast. However, wait half an hour before having some whole grain toast and fruit.
Treatment #4 for hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 250ml water
- 1 tablespoon relaxing herbal tea (orange blossom, mint, linden, passion flower, chamomile or valerian)
Preparation
Prepare your tea as usual and drink it as soon as the liquid is warm, but not hot enough to burn yourself. Its relaxing and calming properties help avoid excessive sweating caused by nervousness.
Treatment #5 for hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons walnut tree leaves
- Half a liter of water
Preparation
Walnut (or rather the leaves of the tree) contain antiseptic and astringent properties that naturally regulate how much you sweat. Boil the leaves for five minutes, then remove from the heat and let them steep. Then strain the liquid and soak a cotton ball or washcloth before applying it to the armpits, feet, and so on.
Treatment #6 for hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon horsetail grass
- 250ml water
- A few drops of apple cider vinegar
Preparation
Prepare a tea by boiling the horsetail grass for five minutes. Then let it steep until the liquid has cooled down a bit and then strain the liquid. Then add the apple cider vinegar, dip a cotton ball in it and finally apply it under the armpits or on the hands and feet, just like you would a deodorant.
Treatment #7 for hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons horsetail grass
- The zest of two oranges
- 250 ml boiling water
Preparation
Add the horsetail and orange zest to the boiling water, then hold your hands over the steam. You can also do this with your armpits.
Treatment #8 for hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- The zest of two oranges
- The zest of two lemons
- 1 liter of water
- 450 g coarse salt
- Three tablespoons of baking soda
Preparation
Bring the peels and water to a boil. Let it boil for a few minutes before removing the pan from the heat. Then let stand for five minutes and finally strain the liquid.
Fill your bathtub with warm water, then add this liquid, along with the salt and baking soda. Then soak yourself in the tub for fifteen minutes (or until the water cools). This will remove the toxins from your body and also prevent excessive sweating.
Treatment #9 for hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 250ml water
- 2 tablespoons rosemary
- 125 ml apple cider vinegar
Preparation
This is a very effective remedy for excessive sweating. Rosemary water is made by boiling the herb for fifteen minutes. Let the liquid stand until it cools, then strain it and then add the vinegar. Then dip a cotton ball in this liquid and finally apply it under the armpits and on the feet.
Treatment #10 for Hyperhidrosis
Ingredients
- 2 handfuls of eucalyptus leaves
- 1 liter of water
Preparation
Heat the leaves on medium heat for two minutes. Then remove from the heat and let it stand for five minutes. Then strain the liquid and finally rinse your hands with it instead of tap water.
