About Traditional Chinese Medicine for Kidney Disease

Clinical practice has shown that the combination of steroid treatment and traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of related kidney diseases can fully leverage their respective advantages, promote strengths and avoid weaknesses, shorten treatment courses, improve efficacy, reduce side effects, and lower recurrence rates. Moreover, the combination of cytotoxic drugs and traditional Chinese medicine can also improve the therapeutic effect. Traditional Chinese medicine can eliminate or alleviate the toxic side effects of immunosuppressants, and the combination of immunosuppressants and traditional Chinese medicine can prevent and treat adverse reactions after kidney transplantation. All of these have made significant progress in clinical and experimental research.

At the same time, there are also many studies on the nephrotoxicity of some traditional Chinese medicines, including Chinese herbs and traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations, and relevant preventive measures have been formulated, which not only ensures the safety of the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, but also enriches the content of traditional Chinese medicine nephrology.

In addition, some new treatment methods have emerged in the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine for kidney disease, such as retention enema of traditional Chinese medicine, acupoint application of traditional Chinese medicine, ion introduction of acupoints of traditional Chinese medicine, and water bath therapy of traditional Chinese medicine. These methods have not only achieved certain therapeutic effects, but also enriched the content of traditional Chinese medicine for kidney disease treatment.

In short, with the unremitting efforts of traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western kidney disease practitioners, modern research on academic theories of traditional Chinese kidney disease has achieved fruitful results, and the discipline has matured and is developing in depth.