What are the methods of traditional Chinese medicine for treating chronic renal failure?

Patients with chronic renal failure do not have many physical symptoms. To diagnose the disease, patients must undergo a renal function test. It is difficult to make a diagnosis based on physical symptoms alone. The main examinations for patients include renal color Doppler ultrasound, renal CT, etc. After the examination, patients must make plans for treatment. The main method of treating the disease is traditional Chinese medicine. So what are the methods of traditional Chinese medicine for treating chronic renal failure?

TCM treatments for chronic renal failure include:

1. Oral administration of Chinese medicine

The course of uremia is long and the pathogenesis is complicated, and it is divided into different stages. During treatment, it is necessary to make a diagnosis and treatment based on the characteristics of the disease. Generally, you can choose medicines such as raw astragalus, aconite, cordyceps, epimedium, Morinda officinalis, ginger pinellia, salvia miltiorrhiza, plantain seed, perilla stem, coptis chinensis, rhubarb, peach red, angelica, safflower, etc. that warm the kidney, purge turbidity, resolve blood stasis and clear the bowels. These medicines can strengthen the body's health, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, eliminate evil without hurting the body's health, have the effects of bringing forth something new out of the old, improving renal blood flow, reducing urea nitrogen and blood creatinine, and correcting acidosis. They can significantly improve clinical symptoms, enhance the body's metabolism and immune function, accelerate the excretion of toxic substances, prevent further damage to the glomeruli, inhibit the increase of urea nitrogen and creatinine, and promote the increase of hemoglobin.

2. Acupoint application

Process raw rhubarb, salvia miltiorrhiza, motherwort, coix seed, chuanxiong and gansui into coarse powder and mix evenly. Soak them in sesame oil and place them in a casserole and boil until they become a paste. Stick it on the Shenshu and Guanyuan acupoints, so that the medicine can penetrate through the skin and stimulate the acupoints, directly acting on the kidney points through the meridians, thereby achieving the effects of warming the kidney, activating the collaterals, promoting diuresis, and clearing turbidity. This method is widely used in clinical practice. Its advantage is that it is not absorbed through the digestive tract and does not cause gastrointestinal reactions.

3. Chinese medicine enema

This method has a certain colon dialysis effect and is an important way to remove nitrogen from the body. It is a supplement to oral medications and is especially suitable for patients who cannot take oral medications. Generally, rhubarb, aconite, raw oyster, wild yam and dandelion are used to clear the bowels and eliminate turbidity, promote the excretion of toxins from the intestines, inhibit protein decomposition, increase intestinal peristalsis, prevent the absorption of toxins in the intestines, promote the excretion of toxic substances in the body, and help reduce the burden on healthy kidney units, thereby controlling the increase of toxic substances such as blood creatinine and urea nitrogen.

4. Umbilical therapy

The umbilicus is the last part of the abdominal wall to close during embryonic development. There is no adipose tissue under the skin, and the peritoneum below the umbilicus is rich in blood vessels. Umbilical application therapy is an external treatment method that involves applying medicine to the navel or umbilicus to achieve the goal of treating diseases. As the navel is connected to various meridians, it can enable the circulation of meridian qi and connect it to the internal organs, limbs and bones, allowing the medicine to circulate directly to the site of the disease, thereby expelling pathogenic factors and promoting recovery of the body. This method is to make pills of rhubarb, aconite, asarum, astragalus, motherwort, and plantain seed, and apply them to the navel, so that the drugs enter the blood through the navel and play the role of the drugs, playing a therapeutic role of nourishing the spleen and kidneys, reducing turbidity and detoxification, and reducing swelling and promoting diuresis.

5. Medicinal Bath

Generally, drugs that can easily penetrate the skin and enter the body to take effect are chosen. Such as ephedra, cinnamon twig, angelica root, salvia miltiorrhiza, safflower, chuanxiong, saposhnikovia divaricata, asarum, etc., it uses the warm effect of medicinal bath water to directly apply the medicinal ingredients to the body surface. As the skin temperature increases, the skin capillaries expand, which promotes the circulation of blood and lymph, and increases the excretion of toxins with sweat. Therefore, the damaged kidneys have a chance to recover on their own, the urine volume increases, the edema subsides, and the body's immune ability is improved. Current research shows that ephedra can improve renal blood flow, and safflower can improve circulatory function, thereby playing a diuretic role. As a large amount of water is discharged from the body, edema subsides, and urea nitrogen and creatinine are excreted from the body, not only the symptoms of nausea and vomiting are relieved, but the dangers caused by hyperkalemia symptoms can also be quickly improved, playing the role of skin dialysis.

6. Medicine belt

After being processed with traditional Chinese medicines such as rhubarb, salvia miltiorrhiza, astragalus, raw aconite, and chuanxiong, they are put into a belt-like cloth bag and wrapped around the waist so that the medicine can directly act on the diseased part of the human body. It can unblock the meridians, reduce evil and detoxify, drain the lungs and promote diuresis, protect kidney qi, promote blood circulation and nourish blood, eliminate dampness and detoxify, and reduce urea nitrogen and creatinine in the blood. This therapy usually involves binding the clothes day and night. If it affects sleep, you can remove it during sleep. This therapy has been around for a long time and has the advantages of being easy to operate and having no side effects.

There are many methods of traditional Chinese medicine to treat chronic renal failure, and they are also very complicated. Chronic renal failure is a chronic disease, and the symptoms produced by the body will also decrease, which is not conducive to the diagnosis of the disease. People with a history of chronic kidney disease must pay attention to physical examinations. It is best to have a physical examination every six months to detect the severity of renal failure in time.