Liver cirrhosis in Chinese medicine to identify, first of all, divided into compensated and decompensated stages, an accumulation, a dropsy, most often need to distinguish between dropsy and edema disease. Specifically as follows: 1. Dropsy is mainly abdominal distention, its site is mainly in the abdomen, with abdominal distention, pale skin color and exposed veins, which will gradually worsen with the progress of the disease, and in the late stage of the disease there will be generalized edema, dizziness, blood evidence and other manifestations; 2. The first symptoms are different, and the lesion sites are also different, but many patients who have been at home for a long time will have abdominal swelling and generalized edema, so when differentiating in this regard, we should first ask what the first symptoms are, and then further examine them to differentiate; 3. The patient will feel that the stomach and epigastric area is full and distended; first of all, the lesion sites are different, and the accumulation is mainly in the two dorsal parts and the accumulation of lumps in the abdomen, while the fullness of the stomach and epigastric area is the main manifestation of distension. Therefore, the main difference is the location, and the differentiation is made by the difference in location.