Chinese herb medicines are mainly composed of herbs, insects and animal
parts. One prescription contains many herbs. Each herb has its own effect, and
all of them interact with each other, producing other effects. The prescription
for PKD includes about 20 Chinese medicines, such as Szechwan Lovage Rhizome,
Tetradium ruticarpum, ganoderma, Cordyceps, etc.
It is not a surgery but a conservative external application therapy. Chinese
herb medicines applied to treat PKD are superfinely shattered and then packaged
in sacks. After soaked and heated for some time, two sacks filled with medicines
are attached to patient’s renal region. With the help of an osmosis device,
ingredients of herb medicines can permeate into renal lesion via acupoints and
channels (a term in Chinese medical science)
Chinese herb medicine also cannot change the abnormal genes in patients with
PKD. It has some advantages over western medicine, because apart from relieving
symptoms like western medicine does, Chinese medicine also can improve ischemia
and anoxia of renal tissues and repair the damaged renal functional cells as
well as doing with the increasing kidney cysts. Speaking in detailedly, Chinese
herb medicine takes effect mainly from the follow aspects.
1) Some herb medicines have effects of anti-inflammation, anti-coagulation as
well as preventing blood viscosity, dilating blood vessels and degrading extra
cellular matrixes. Therefore, Chinese herb medicine can improve blood
circulation and thereby improve ischemia and anoxia of renal tissues. As you
know, ischemia and anoxia are the key factors of renal fibrosis.
2) Chinese herbs can supply vitamin, micronutrients, organic acid and other
nutrients for repairing the damaged renal functional cells. Also, some herbs
stimulate DNA replication of the damaged cells, thus speeding up the progress of
cells’ self-repair.
3) Chinese herb medicine deals with kidneys cysts mainly through increasing
the permeability of cyst walls and restraining secretion of cyst fluids.
Compared with removing cysts by surgery, Chinese herb medicine is relatively
slow, but it can deal with both small and big cysts and won’t cause any damage
to the kidneys issues.
If you want to know more about PKD and Chinese Herbal Medicine, you can mail
to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com
