It is Kidney-Yang deficiency that prolonged over time favors the accumulation of dampness
Symptoms
- Edema especially in the legs and ankles
- Sensation of cold in the legs and in the back
- Fullness and abdominal distension
- Asthenia and weakness of the lumbar region
- Clear urine and scanty
- If the water overflows and invades the Lung: clear watery and foamy phlegm, cough, asthma, shortness of breath on exertion
- If the water invades the Heart: palpitations, shortness of breath, cold hands.
- Pale, swollen tongue with white coating. There may be dental marks
- Deep, weak and slow pulse
Causes
- Deficiency of Yang sustained over time
- Constitution
- Injury of the seven emotions
- Excess of physical and mental work that depletes
- Inadequate diet: excess of cold and raw foods
- Excess of sexual activity
- Dampness, Phlegm
Treatment
Tonify Kidney-Yang and the transformation of fluids