DROPSY (Generalized edema or anasarca)

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BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="102" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <head> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </script> </head> <A HREF="javascript:myprint()" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="javascript:myprint()">Print this Page</A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <I><B>DROPSY  (Generalized edema or anasarca)</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Symptoms:</B></I></div> <div> Abnormal and excessive accumulation or infiltration of diluted lymph serum in the interfibrillar spaces of the subcutaneous connective tissue or in the serious (peritoneal or pleural) cavities of the body which do not drain.  This condition is accompanied by swelling, scanty urine, poor appetite, sluggishness, and debility.  The swelling usually begins in the feet and ankles and proceeds up the legs towards the abdomen.</div> <div> <I><B>Cause:</B></I></div> <div> Heavy salt users often have dropsy as do diabetics.  We do not pinpoint the symptoms as to locality (hydrocephalus, hydrothorax, ascites, etc.), as does orthodox medicine, but the general problem is that fluid does not eliminate properly through the kidneys and skin.  Dr.  Edward Shook had the following to say about dropsy: "When sulfuric acid is generated within the organism, it immediately unites with water and swells up.  This action produces heat, which expands the capillaries.  The osmotic pressure forces the serum through the walls of the blood vessels, producing inflammation and dropsy.  Hence the using of inorganic matter is always poisonous to the human organism in spite of all the apparent evidence to the contrary." (Advanced Treatise on Herbs, p. 132)</div> <div> <I><B>Herbal aids:</B></I></div> <div> Exceptional results have been attained with dropsy by the use of parsley, parsley root, juniper berries, verde cactus, ginger, and chaparral.  Diet is the key to eliminating the cause.  Meats, pastries, salt, etc., should be avoided.  Eat fruits (grapes and coconut especially), sprouts, leafy and green vegetables, (do not mix fruits and vegetables).  Use vapor baths and diaphoretics to open the pores, stimulants to increase and regulate circulation, diuretics for kidneys, and be sure to treat the whole digestive system with tonics.  Also rub the body with vinegar and cold water and be sure to keep the bowels cleaned.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Page 19</div> <div> <I><B>Useful herbs:</B></I></div> <div> Adders tongue, agrimony, angelica, anise, arbor vitae, asarabacca, ash leaves, asparagus, balm leaves, balmony, bitter candy tuft, bitter root, black alder bark, black cohosh, black hellebore, black root  (with cream of tartar), blessed thistle, blooming spurge, blue cohosh, blue flag, broom, buchu, buckthorn bark, burdock root, butternut bark, button snake root, camomile, Canada fleabane, caper bush, carrot, celandine, celery, cleavers, colocynth, coriander seed, couch grass, cucumber (single seeded), currants, dandelion root, elder (dwarf) or wild bark, elecampane root, fennel, flaxseed, jalap, garden daisy fontain, golden seal, haircap moss, hawthorn, hearts tongue, hedge agrimony, hedge hyssop, horseradish, hydrangeas, hyssop, Indian hemp, Indian physic, iris, Irish moss, ivy (American), juniper berries, kidneywort, knotgrass, larkspur, lily of the valley, lobelia, mandrake root, marjoram, masterwort, meadow lily, meadow sweet, milkweed, mungwort, mulberry (French), mullein, nettle leaves, origanum, parsley herb, parsley root, pennyroyal, Peruvian bark, plantain, pimpernel, pipsissewa, poplar buds, prickly ash berries, quassia, queen of the meadow, quince seed and fruit, raisins, red chickweed, rosemary, sandalwood, sassafras, shavegrass, skunk cabbage, sloe tree, sourbush, sow fennel, spearmint, squills, succory, sundew, tansy, twin leaf, uva ursi, wahoo, wall pellitory, wall rue, walnut leaves, water starwort, white ash, white mustard herb and seeds, white pond lily, wild carrot seed, wintergreen, wolfsbalotte, wood betony, yellow dock.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Page 20</div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=24 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="cc203181eearkz.gif"> <div>  <A HREF="snh_dizziness.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DIZZINESS (Vertigo)">SNH Dizziness</A> < Previous  |  Next > <A HREF="dysentery.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DYSENTERY (Summer complaint)">Dysentery</A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>