Dropsy is the name of a Chinese medicine disease, the main cause of which can be caused by excessive alcohol consumption, addiction to fat, sweet and thick flavors, anger, infection with schistosomiasis and other causes of liver damage, jaundice, pain in the two coats of arms, local masses and other pathological conditions and last for a long period of time, resulting in the poor function of the liver, spleen and kidneys, the body’s water, qi and blood stagnation in the abdominal area, which leads to abdominal distension, like a drum skin, abdominal skin yellowish in color, and the exposure of local blood vessels and veins, i.e. dropsy. The veins are exposed, i.e. dropsy. In modern medicine, it is equivalent to cirrhotic ascites, the cause of which can be cirrhosis after viral hepatitis, cirrhosis after chronic alcoholism, schistosomal cirrhosis, cholestatic cirrhosis, cirrhotic ascites caused by hereditary and metabolic diseases. In terms of treatment, dropsy is considered as one of the hard-to-treat certificates in Chinese medicine, and should be given a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.