Chinese medicine divides edema into six types according to clinical symptoms.
1. Wind and Water Fighting (wind and water invading the skin, manifesting as edema of the eyelids and limbs): the symptoms manifest as swelling of the eyelids first, followed by swelling of the whole body, accompanied by the symptom of coldness (fear of cold), Yue Maid and Jiajiu Soup is used to relieve wind and expel wind and to promote the lungs and promote diuresis.
2. Dampness-poison impregnation: to promote lung detoxification, promote dampness and eliminate swelling as the treatment principle, with clinical sores, or even ulceration, malignant wind and fever, etc., the prescription chooses Ephedra, Lianjiao, and Red Bean Soup combined with Five-flavored Disinfectant Drink.
3. Water-dampness impregnation (water-dampness encroaching on the skin with oedema manifestation) syndrome: Strengthening the spleen and resolving dampness, promoting yang and inducing diuresis as the treatment principle, characterized by swelling of the lower limbs, no fingers when pressed, tightness in the chest and nausea (lack of appetite, reduced food intake), and generalized malaise, using Wu Pi Drink combined with Gastro-ling Soup.
4. Damp-heat internalization syndrome: the treatment is to clear heat and dampness, diuresis and swelling, clinical manifestations of the patient’s skin taut and bright, chest and epigastric plagued (chest and abdomen feel fullness and stuffiness), irritable heat (irritability and sultriness) thirst and other symptoms, the choice of formula for the sparing chisel drink.
5. Spleen deficiency and dampness trapped syndrome: to warm and transport the spleen yang, diuresis and swelling as the rule of treatment, symptoms manifested in the body swollen for a long time, below the waist for a long time, accompanied by the loss of energy (no appetite, less food), loose stools (feces sparse and unshaped), the selection of the formula of the real spleen drink.
6. Kidney-Yang Weakening and Weakness Certificate: The treatment is to warm the kidney and help the Yang, transform the Qi and move the water (to promote the operation of the gas, thus promoting the operation of the water and liquid), using Jisheng Kidney-Qi Pill and Zhenwu Tang, with the clinical manifestations of lumbar soreness and cold pain, coldness of the limbs (the limbs are ice-cold, even to the elbows and above the knees), and coldness and timidity.
Seek medical advice as early as possible for any discomfort.