sorry other posts i didnt see... well I know that it sounds weird but we need salt in order to preserve our eletrolite balance. Now we dont need that much a pinch will do but we need salt or we will die. The real question is why you have lymphedema perhaps poor circulation, bad heart, poor kidneys ? this is the real question do you exercise regularly ? the lymph can only move when the muscles of the body move. So when you move the lymph fluid (chyme) moves and stimulates the lymph vessels to contract moving the chyme along the one way lymphatic vessels. No exercise no lymph fluid movement no movement =edema