Many friends ask me about edema, this edema, seems to be a small thing, but, carefully pondered, you will find that many diseases have the shadow of edema, for example, severe disease in the liver cirrhosis will appear ascites, kidney disease will appear edema, heart failure will appear edema; and slight physical disorders, occasionally there will be edema, such as some people do not rest well, sleep less, there will be eyelid puffiness and so on.
Some elderly people, physical disorders, edema for a long time, such as the shin bone of the leg there, a press is a pit, this is a kind of edema.
So, what exactly is edema?
In general, excess fluid retention in the tissue space or body cavity (zhū) is called edema, however, we usually say edema, referring to the increase in body fluid in the tissue space. The increase in body fluid in the body cavity is called effusion. Edema may present as a local or systemic, with systemic edema often accompanied by a serous effusion such as ascites, pleural effusion, and pericardial effusion.
Chinese medicine believes that edema is a type of disease evidence characterized by the retention of water in the body, flooding the skin, and taking the head, eyelids, limbs, abdomen, and even the whole body as a clinical feature.
So, how exactly does edema occur?
Chinese medicine believes that if due to the evil of external cold and damp heat, water wet impregnation, sore poison soaking, diet fatigue, long-term illness and weakness, etc., resulting in lung, spleen, kidney, bladder dysfunction, sanjiao decision to desecrate the division, bladder gasification is unfavorable, water retention in the body, flooding the skin, you can cause edema.
As early as the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic", the state of edema was described: "The water begins to rise, the eyes are slightly swollen, like a newly reclined shape, its neck pulsations, cough, cold between the genitals, swollen feet, abdomen is large, and its water has become complete." Press your hands on his belly and rise up with your hands, as if wrapped in water. Zhang Zhongjing called the disease "water vapor" in the "Outline of the Golden Plateau", which was divided into five categories according to the cause and evidence of feng shui, skin water, positive water, stone water, and yellow sweat. Later generations of edema treatment, mostly developed on this basis.
How to regulate edema
So, once edema occurs, how to regulate it?
In ancient times, edema is a serious threat to people's health disease, so Chinese medicine in the treatment of edema, summed up a lot of experience, almost every doctor's book, edema is a very important chapter, therefore, the treatment of edema is very many. If someone around us has edema, you can go to the hospital and ask a Chinese medicine doctor to use specific prescriptions for conditioning according to the actual situation.
Today, we introduce a formula that plays a role in food therapy, red bean carp soup.
The red adzuki beans in the square have the effect of dehumidifying water, and blood drainage, swelling and detoxification. Traditional Chinese medicine is used to treat edema, beriberi, jaundice, diarrhea, blood in the stool, carbuncle. Regarding the function of red adzuki bean, I once wrote a special article that this is a medicine of the same origin as medicine and food, and in the "Shennong Materia Medica", its function was once recorded, believing that it "the Lord went into the water and drained the carbuncle and pus and blood." "Today, many of us drink it with barley and red beans when we get rid of dampness.
Carp, on the other hand, is a food that removes dampness and spleen, which is estimated to be something that everyone did not expect.
The ancients had a lot of imagination about carp, from the fact that it could jump the dragon gate, talking about what characteristics its fish scales have, in short, it is to find out the basis for its water. In fact, I think this is not important, maybe it is different from other fish, future research will find out, we now just need to use it according to the experience of the ancients.
The ancients believed that carp had the effect of water, swelling, lower qi and milk. It can be used to treat edema and fullness, athlete's foot, jaundice, cough and gas reversal, milk failure and other diseases. One of the most used is the anti-edemaic effect of carp. For example, in the "Behind the Elbow filling", it is recorded: "The cure is swollen and swollen, and the face is big: a big carp, and three liters of alcohol." Cook it, let the wine dry, but eat it, do not use vinegar and salt, soy sauce. In the "Medical Summary", it is recorded: "Cure hydration and swelling: one pound of red-tailed carp." Break open, do not see water and salt, to raw alum five dollars, grind the end, into the abdomen. Wrapped in fire paper, wrapped in loess mud on the outside, simmered and taken out on the stove, removed from the paper clay, for porridge, and used up in one day. "Wait, when reading ancient books, we will find that many of the remedies for edema are used for carp.
The soup of red adzuki beans and carp has the function of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the kidneys, diuretic and swelling reduction. It has a certain effect on the puffiness of the facial muscles, abdominal muscles and limb muscles caused by water and wet condensation, premenstrual edema, maternal edema, and even some serious diseases, such as cirrhosis of the liver, ascites, etc.
As for the specific practice, the Tang Dynasty's "Outer Terrace Secrets" recorded: "Take a carp, a very large one, remove the head and tail and bone, only take the meat, take two buckets of water, one liter of red adzuki beans, and cook the fish meat, you can take more than two liters of juice, raw cloth to twist it." If it cannot be exhausted, it is divided into two servings. After the service is warm, the service is profitable, and the benefit is exhausted." The way to take it here is to drink it all at once, and then there will be slight diarrhea, and the diarrhea will end, and the disease will be better.
What we do today is to use a carp, remove the internal organs and fish scales, and then use two hundred grams of red adzuki beans to boil the soup with the carp, do not put seasoning, especially do not put salt, and then the soup is boiled, you can drink. When drinking, it is not necessary to drink it all at once like the ancients, but to drink a bowl at a time, three times a day, and drink for a few days.
This formula is relatively peaceful, but strictly discussed, or the effect is better on the damp and hot edema.
There are many examples of removing edema with this formula, I will not talk more about it, this formula should be a dietary remedy for removing edema, the effect is more obvious, and it is relatively peaceful. However, it must be remembered that after the edema is eliminated, it is necessary to consider why there is edema, so the spleen and kidney repair must be carried out for a long time. Many people see that the edema is eliminated, they feel that everything is fine, this is not right, through the adjustment, let us have enough righteousness, this is the ultimate thing to do.
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