The Thought of Syndrome Differentiation of Edema Disease

Abstract

Chinese medicine treatment of edema has a long history, “open the ghost door”, “clean house”, “go Wanchen” of the edema treatment thought in the “Neijing” has been mentioned, is still used, on this basis “on Typhoid miscellaneous diseases” proposed treatment of edema of the treatment of: when the swelling above the waist when sweat, swelling below the waist when urine and so on. Therefore, when treating the edema caused by pathological factors such as water, sore poison and blood stasis in the patient’s body, it can be eliminated by means of sweating, relieving urine and attacking water and drink [1]. The six channels are closely related to edema disease, and better treatment results can be obtained by treating the etiology and pathogenesis of edema separately from the differentiation of the six channels. After thousands of years of continuous evolution and development, Chinese traditional medicine has accumulated rich experience in the treatment of edema, which has unique characteristics and provides various references for the future TCM treatment of edema.