Neighbor Aunt Chen discovered inexplicably her ankle area department are swollen, puts on shoes to feel the difficulty, the eyelid and the face also has the mild edema, the determination swells. Edema many in tired and long time activity and mood fluctuation postemphasis, after rest or horizontal, reduces. Therefore, some people said that she was the trouble “nephritis”, also some people said that she possibly was the liver or the heart went wrong. Aunt Chen then lets the son accompany her to the hospital diagnosis. Doctor has carried on the detailed physical examination for Aunt Chen, wrote down in the medical certificate “has sent dropsy especially”.
Sends dropsy to occur especially in the middle-aged person and old person, especially sees in the body obese elderly women. This kind of edema is more remarkable by the lower limb malleolus joint nearby, is hollow according to it, daily afternoon is heavy, after resting a night gets out of bed, reduces or vanishing. This kind of dropsy many for senile, the bodily physiology hypofunction, the water salt metabolic disorder causes. The patient only has tiredly, the asthenia, not to be willing generally to move, the lower limb to swell and so on feelings. The clinical auxiliary inspection does not have much exceptionally discovered.
Sends dropsy not to need the specific treatment generally especially, but must pay attention avoids for a long time sitting a long time the station, should transform the body posture frequently, has bedrest when raises suitably the lower limb, causes the blood backflow to be unimpeded. In addition, but must pay attention to the adjustment mood, the control diet, reduces the sugar, salty and fat intaking. The edema heavy may also under the instruction take the diuretics in doctor.
The Chinese medicine believed that sends dropsy many are the spleen kidney deficiency of yang result especially, uses is good for the spleen the profit kidney, the advantage Shui Shenshi method treatment to have the good results.
