The Chinese medicine treatment for lower limb edema is usually traditional Chinese medicine, according to the symptoms, it can be divided into spleen yang deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, spleen yang deficiency can be treated by adding or subtracting solid spleen drink, kidney yang deficiency can be treated by adding or subtracting Jisheng Kidney qi Pill, and the traditional Chinese medicine treatments for the other types of symptoms should be in accordance with the doctor’s prescription.
1. Spleen-Yang deficiency: the symptoms include heavy edema of the lower limbs, long duration of the disease, depression that is not easy to recover by pressing, abdominal distension, chest tightness, reduced diet, mental fatigue, fatigue, weakness, weakness of the limbs, and shortness of urine. It can be treated with the addition or subtraction of “Solid Spleen Drink”, which consists of dry ginger, epimedium, licorice, atractylodes, poria, papaya, etc. It has the efficacy of warming yang and facilitating water circulation (replenishing the body’s yang qi and promoting the circulation of water and fluid).
2. Kidney yang deficiency: symptoms such as recurrent edema of the lower limbs, depression and swelling of the face and body, decreased or increased urination, lumbar soreness and cold pain, chills in the limbs, fear of cold, mental fatigue, or even panic attacks and chest tightness, and difficulty in lying down. It can be treated by adding and subtracting Jisheng Kidney Qi Pill, which consists of Radix Pseudostellariae, Cinnamomum Cassiae, Poria, Zedoariae, Psyllium, Cortex Pilosulae, and Cortex Nervosa, etc. The effects of the formula are warming the kidney and transforming the qi, inducing diuresis, and reducing swelling.
The above formula is not suitable for patients with fever. Excessive amount of epiphyllum is easy to be poisoned, and the dosage should be strictly controlled.
If you need to use Chinese medicine to treat edema, be sure to use the medicine under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and do not take the medicine on your own to avoid delaying your condition.