Chinese Herbal Therapy for Chronic Kidney Disease
2014-01-14 08:52
As we know, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the most common kidney disease among kidney disease patients, which is caused by many kinds of factors. And CKD patients will suffer from some symptoms in different stages. We often recommend CKD patients to have effective treatment as early as possible, and Chinese herbal therapy is the most popular and magical treatment for chronic kidney disease patients.
The common Chinese herbal therapies contain hot compress therapy, Medicated bath, Foot bath, acupuncture therapy and so on. In treating CKD, we often make a systemic treatment project depending on patient’s illness condition. Through the systemic treatment with Chinese herbal therapy, they will have great improvements on their illness.
There are some benefit of using Chinese herbal therapy for CKD patients.
1. Promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis
The herbal therapies such as hot compress therapy, acupuncture, medicated bath and foot bath have the function of improving the blood circulation and improve the immune system, which can help CKD patients to increase the blood volume flow into kidneys, and improve the kidney function. Besides, the increased immunity can also help prevent the infections, which can help prevent the further damage to the kidneys.
2. Anti-inflammation and anti-freezing
When the kidneys are damaged, they will fail to work, and the bad substances will build up in blood, which will cause the blood polluted. Besides, the wastes accumulate in blood will also cause thrombus and blood clotting, which will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. The herbal therapy has the function of anti-inflammation and anti-freezing, which will help patients to prevent the complications of cardiovascular diseases.
3. Repair the kidney damage
Some Chinese herbs have the function of repair the damaged kidney tissues and activate the damaged kidney cells, which can help improve the self-healing ability of the kidneys. Then the kidney function will be improved effectively.
4. Supply enough nutrition for CKD patients
The Chinese herbs also have the function of supply enough nutrition for people, which can help improve the immunity and make patients to become stronger to defeat with the kidney disease. Besides, they can also help protect the residual kidney function.
Above are the benefits of using Chinese herbal therapy for CKD patients. CKD patients should have treatment as early as possible when they were diagnosed with their kidney diseases, and the early treatment will make them get rid of dialysis and kidney transplant.
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