Long -long back in 1960-s after I became a doctor and learned through Boyd's Pathology Book that our body can accumulate from 500 m to 1000 ml of fluid (water in our system without giving ant symptom or sign clinically nor even a sign of fluid accumulation in costo-phrenic angle to prove fluid in Pleural -space by X-ray of chest ( may not very very accurate in my statement after about half a century i.e today.
But the interesting parallel I venture to draw is that : also long after, I studied a book named Charak Sanghita of AYURVEDA, i.e the knowledge about LIFE and Health of INDIAN VEDIC period (older than Even GREEK CIVILISATION,) where it was advised for women who became pregnant , to wear a ring around the little toe the foot (?left). And if the lady reported any feeling of tightening around, it was a sure way to know that water was getting accumulated in the body , That was the first symptom & sign of oedema or body-fluid Excess, when ,as proved in Modern Medicine, the Excess- accumulation of fluid was even less than 500 ml in the body.
What ?-- if in Modern days of Hypertension, , Circulatory diseases or Kidney conditions, -if all men and women are advised to wear a ring around one of the little toes!
Well this is only the aftermath of my stray thought and is - no SCIENTIFIC SERMON.
But the interesting parallel I venture to draw is that : also long after, I studied a book named Charak Sanghita of AYURVEDA, i.e the knowledge about LIFE and Health of INDIAN VEDIC period (older than Even GREEK CIVILISATION,) where it was advised for women who became pregnant , to wear a ring around the little toe the foot (?left). And if the lady reported any feeling of tightening around, it was a sure way to know that water was getting accumulated in the body , That was the first symptom & sign of oedema or body-fluid Excess, when ,as proved in Modern Medicine, the Excess- accumulation of fluid was even less than 500 ml in the body.
What ?-- if in Modern days of Hypertension, , Circulatory diseases or Kidney conditions, -if all men and women are advised to wear a ring around one of the little toes!
Well this is only the aftermath of my stray thought and is - no SCIENTIFIC SERMON.