中醫對黃胖病,一向雜在黄疸病一類中。不過古人也有說它與黄疸病不同的。古人見它黄而發腫,所以叫它黃胖,也叫黃腫,見它的好食易饑,腹大肢削,因而又叫它食勞疳黃,其實這個病相當於現代所說的鈎蟲病。這個病在我國農村分佈很廣,以華東華南尤其沿海各省最多,浙江以及廣東植桑區,四川等處種紅蕷的農民和焦作萍鄉等礦區,感染很盛。凡赤脚接觸染有鈎虫卵糞便的泥土時,不分性別年齡,均能感染。病狀主要爲貧 Chinese medicine on the yellow fat disease, has always been mixed in a class of jaundice. However, the ancients also say it is different from jaundice. The ancients see it yellow and swollen, so called it yellow fat, also known as yellow swollen, see it’s easy to eat hungry, abdominal limbs cut, so it is also known as food waste Huang, in fact, the disease is equivalent to the modern said hookworm disease . The disease is widely distributed in rural areas in China, most of which are eastern China, especially the coastal provinces of Zhejiang, Guangdong, and the mulberry planting areas such as Szechwan, Sichuan and Jiaozuo Pingxiang. All barefoot contact with hookworm egg excrement of soil, regardless of sex age, can be infected. The symptoms are mainly poor