What are the folk remedies for treating glomerulonephritis? Did you know?

In life, many people like to eat various high-calorie foods and drink various beverages. These foods seriously increase the burden on the kidneys, leading to the occurrence of nephritis. So are there any folk remedies for glomerulonephritis?

Acute Glomerulonephritis Recipe

1. Kidney-benefiting and Throat-benefiting Soup

Ingredients: Honeysuckle 30g, Forsythia suspensa 15g, Isatis root 18g, Burdock seed 9g, Cimicifuga heracleifolia 12g, Radix Rehmanniae 20g, Platycodon grandiflorum 12g, Periostracum Cicadae 9g, Radix Sophorae flavescentis 9g, Radix Scutellariae 12g, Licorice root 6g

Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, taken warm twice a day, morning and evening, 14 days as a course of treatment.

Applicable people: acute glomerulonephritis. Symptoms: edema of the eyelids and lower limbs, congestion of the pharynx, enlarged tonsils, decreased and turbid urine, thin yellow tongue coating, and slippery pulse.

Efficacy: This prescription is suitable for nephritis caused by invasion of wind-heat and toxic evils, and is used to dispel wind-heat, clear away heat and detoxify. In the formula, honeysuckle and forsythia suspensa can dispel wind-heat and toxic evil; Yuanshen can clear away heat, cool blood, reduce swelling and disperse nodules; Isatis root and Sophora flavescens can clear away heat and relieve sore throat; Burdock fruit and cicada shell can both dispel wind-heat and relieve sore throat; Scutellaria baicalensis can clear away heat and detoxify; Cimicifuga heracleifolia can clear heat; Platycodon can both relieve sore throat and carry the medicine upward; Licorice can clear away heat and detoxify, and harmonize the various medicines.

2. Euphorbia and Red Dates Soup

Ingredients: 60-90g fresh Euphorbia root, 20-30 red dates

Usage: Wash and slice the fresh Euphorbia root, add 500ml of water together with jujube, boil until 200ml, add 200ml of rice wine, and simmer until 200ml is the first juice. Decoction twice for each dose, mix, and take once in the morning. Take 2 doses in the first week and 1 dose per week in weeks 2 to 4.

Applicable people: acute glomerulonephritis.

Efficacy: The formula uses the root of Euphorbia grandiflora to enter the lung, spleen and kidney meridians, and can expel water and drink, promote defecation and treat edema; it uses red dates to nourish the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and produce body fluids, regulate the body's defense system, and detoxify drugs; rice wine promotes qi and blood circulation, disperses water and aids the kidneys, and stimulates yang and induces sweating. Especially when decocted with rice wine, on the one hand it can reduce the toxic side effects caused by large amounts of Euphorbia, while at the same time increasing renal blood flow, reducing glomerular capillary permeability, promoting glomerular repair or regeneration, increasing urine volume, reducing edema, and helping to improve urine and lower blood pressure.

Chronic Glomerulonephritis Recipe

[Commonly used medicines] For nourishing yin and clearing heat, you can choose Phellodendron chinense, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Eclipta prostrata, Ligustrum lucidum, and Rehmannia glutinosa; for clearing heat and removing dampness, you can choose Imperata root, Poria cocos, and Polyporus umbellatus.

[Symptom characteristics] Edema subsides, or the face is slightly swollen in the morning, fatigue, soreness of waist and knees, frequent urination at night, abdominal distension and poor appetite, pale red tongue, thin white tongue coating, and thin pulse.