Beriberi is a common skin disease in life. In the field of traditional Chinese medicine, beriberi is generally divided into dry beriberi and wet beriberi.
Dry beriberi
Dry beriberi refers to people whose feet and knees are not swollen. The factors include internal heat due to body yin deficiency, pathogenic factors of damp-heat and wind-toxin changing from heat, blood injury, tendon dystrophy, weakness of feet and shin, numbness and pain, cramp, insufficient swelling, emaciation, loss of diet, red urine, red tongue and rapid pulse.
Weakness of wet feet
Wet beriberi is a kind of beriberi. Refers to beriberi, edema of feet and knees. The evil feeling of water and dampness is felt in the lower body, and the meridians cannot be opened, resulting in disease. Symptoms include leg swelling, numbness and heaviness, weakness of legs and knees, unfavorable urination, slow pulse and white greasy fur; Or people with scabies in front of the tibia.
1) Crush half a catty of ginger, add 2 ounces of salt and 5-6 bowls of water, boil for 10 minute, and wash your feet with boiled water for seven days while it is hot.
2) Wash your feet with raw potato juice once in the morning and once in the evening.
3) Put 1 kg mature vinegar, 1 kg alum and 1 kg garlic in a glass bottle and seal for three days. After that, pour out the soaking feet for 30 minutes every day. After soaking, pour the vinegar water back into the container and seal it for ten days. Be sure to stick to it, and it is best to soak the worn socks.
Dry your feet before going to bed every night, and then apply them comfortably enough. Generally, symptoms of beriberi can be relieved in half a month.
Beriberi is the name of Chinese medicine!