むくみは、余分な水分（代謝できない水分）が、体内や体表面に溜まってしまった状態のことです。カラダの約60〜70%を占めるといわれる「水」。血液中では血漿（けっしょう、血液の液体部分）の約9割が水と言われており、栄養物を全身に巡らせ、体温調節を行うなど、生命活動には必要不可欠なものです。しかし、この水の巡りが滞りカラダに溜め込んでしまうと一変、不調を引き起こす原因となってしまうことがあります。こうした状態のことを中医学では「水滞」と言います。「水滞」とは読んで字のごとく、水分代謝が悪く、水の排出が停滞している状態のことです。

ひとくちに浮腫(むくみ)といっても、軽症から重症までさまざま。朝に顔がむくみやすくて困る…といったものから、腎不全で全身にひどい浮腫があるもの。ひどくなると腹水がたまったり、胸水がたまって呼吸困難になったりします。

特によく見られるのは、午後になると足がむくむ、下半身が太い、朝起きると顔がむくんでいる、などの症状です。このようなタイプのむくみの原因は、アレルギーや気温の変化といった外界の要因ではなく、体内で発生する湿邪（しつじゃ）です。これを「内湿（ないしつ）」といいます。むくみは、この三焦気化がスムーズに機能しなくなったときに、体液の流れが滞り、内湿がたまって発生します。従って、むくみは五臓の脾・肺・腎・肝と関係が深い症候です。伝統医学では、これらの臓腑の機能を改善することにより、むくみを解消させていきます。

どの部位にむくみの症状が多く集中しているのか、五臓の脾・肺・腎・肝と関係が深い症候によって、全身のどのエネルギーラインを中心にアプローチすべきかを考え、全身の施術を行っていきます。

Swelling is a condition in which excess water (unmetabolized water) has accumulated in the body and the surface of the body. "Water" is said to account for about 60-70% of the body. In the blood, about 90% of the plasma (liquid part of the blood) is said to be water, and it is indispensable for life activities, such as spreading nutrients throughout the body and regulating body temperature. However, if this water patrol is stuck and accumulated in the body, it may change completely, and it may cause a malfunction. In Chinese medicine, this situation is called "water retention". "Water retention" is a state in which water metabolism is poor and water discharge is stagnant, as written.

Even if it is said that edema (swelling) in one bite, it varies from mild to severe. My face is swollen easily in the morning. From such things, there is a terrible edema in the whole body in renal failure. If it gets worse, ascites may accumulate, or pleural efusers may accumulate and you may have difficulty breathing.

Especially common symptoms include swelling feet in the afternoon, thick lower body, and swelling face when you wake up in the morning. The cause of this type of swelling is not causes of the outside world, such as allergies and changes in temperature, but moisture that occurs in the body. This is called "internal moisture". Swelling occurs when this three-impatience vaporization stops functioning smoothly, the flow of body fluids is blocked, and internal moisture accumulates. Therefore, swelling is a symptom that is closely related to the spleen, lung, kidney, liver of the five organs. In traditional medicine, swelling is eliminated by improving the function of these visceral organs.

We think about which energy line of the whole body should be approached mainly by the symptom spleen, lung, kidney, liver and deep relation to the spleen, lung, kidney, liver of the five organs, and whether the symptoms of swelling are concentrated a lot in which part of the body, and the treatment of the whole body is done.