The old man three swollen and three eliminated is a folk saying, refers to the elderly people appear body three times edema and three times after relief will appear life-threatening, this situation does not have any real scientific basis, is part of the people according to the life experience summed up the experience, and can not fully represent the development of the law of the disease. Generally speaking, if there is low protein, eyelid edema or sometimes lower limb edema, the cause may be liver failure, renal failure, which may lead to life-threatening situation, and sometimes the consumption of tumor patients can also cause this situation. So this situation is a part of the experience of some people, but in the case of venous valvular disease of the lower extremities, although swelling and elimination often occurs but is not life-threatening, so this statement can only represent part of the pattern of development of the disease.