Edema in legs

by Stephen Harrod Buhner | Jun 6, 2012 | Columns, Healing Lyme, Herbs, miscellaneous, skin/tissues/veins, Symptoms | 3 comments

Dear Stephen,
I have a lot of edema in my legs. Would stephania help?

Stephen’s response:
I would add rutin and ginkgo along with the serrapeptase and nattokinase. They work pretty well together (ginkgo 480 mg daily in two divided doses and rutin in 2000 mg daily in 2 divided doses. For leg edema, I have used dandelion leaf (strong diuretic) and horsechestnut (600 mg daily).

Stephen

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Mark on November 3, 2016 at 12:51 pm

diuretics are not recommended for lymphedema. As I heard that organism tends to keep water when than.

Can you please comment Stephen?
Ron Melville on August 12, 2017 at 3:49 pm

Dear Stephen,

both my feet and calfs are brown because the valves don’t work in my veins. Lyme did this to me what can I take to make it better.
Carol Rohr on March 6, 2018 at 9:49 am

Stephen,

Can you please respond to this question? My mother has very severe edema from CHF in her arms and legs, pretty much all over her body, and the docs have her on two diuretics (Lasix and Metolazone). Is this true that the diuretics keep the lymphedema fluid in?