Acute nephritis has a sudden onset, with hematuria, proteinuria, edema and hypertension as the main clinical manifestations, belonging to the category of "geomantic omen" and "blood drowning" in traditional Chinese medicine. The cause of the disease is the feeling of wind, dampness, poison and other external evils, which hurts the internal organs, leading to lung failure, spleen loss of health, kidney difficulty in opening and closing, leading to the obstruction of triple energizer meridians, sweat and urine excretion, and causing disease. Therefore, sweating, diuresis, dredging and other methods should be used for treatment.
Traditional Chinese medicine has a good therapeutic effect on this disease, especially the microscopic hematuria that does not disappear for a long time during the recovery period of the disease. Benefiting qi and nourishing yin, cooling blood and stopping bleeding can often achieve good results.
Second, Chinese medicine's understanding of chronic nephritis
Chronic nephritis is a group of diseases originating from glomerulus. The main clinical manifestations are edema, hypertension, renal insufficiency, proteinuria and hematuria. Edema belongs to the category of edema in traditional Chinese medicine; People with renal failure can fall within the scope of "vain work".
The disease is caused by the invasion of exogenous pathogens and long-term damage to spleen and kidney. Deficiency of both spleen and kidney, spleen failing to transport, kidney failing to open and close, or deficiency of spleen and kidney and exogenous pathogens. Deficiency of both spleen and kidney is always the foundation, and evil is the standard (water dampness, wind evil, blood stasis). Traditional Chinese medicine has many treatments for this disease, such as diuresis and detumescence, strengthening spleen and kidney, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, expelling wind and removing dampness, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. , often have a good curative effect. For refractory cases, the curative effect can be improved by combining traditional Chinese and western medicine.
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Understanding of chronic renal failure
Chronic renal failure (CRF) is a variety of chronic kidney diseases. Due to progressive renal damage, clinical symptoms such as waste retention, water and electrolyte metabolism disorder, acid-base imbalance, etc. belong to the categories of TCM syndromes such as fatigue, forbidden area and poisoning.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is a syndrome of deficiency of both spleen and kidney, which leads to disorder of spleen ascending and descending turbidity, disorder of kidney storing essence and discharging turbidity, retention of dampness and turbidity, and finally spleen and kidney decline and triple energizer blocking dampness and turbidity, that is, entering uremia stage, and the treatment mainly adopts the method of discharging turbidity. Traditional Chinese medicine has a certain therapeutic effect on chronic renal failure, which can improve symptoms, reduce the retention of metabolic waste, improve renal function and delay the process of renal failure, but dialysis treatment should be combined with end-stage uremia.
Fourth, the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine on renal anemia
Generally speaking, the worse the renal function, the more serious the anemia will be. Modern western medicine recognizes that the kidney is not only an excretory organ, but also an endocrine organ, which can secrete a variety of hormones, among which erythropoietin can promote the maturation of bone marrow red blood cells. When renal function declines, this hormone deficiency is the most important cause of renal anemia. In ancient times, Chinese medicine put forward that the kidney governs the bone, and the bone produces marrow. It is believed that the kidney stores essence, the essence can transform blood, and the essence and blood are homologous, so anemia can occur when kidney disease occurs.
To sum up, there are many kinds of kidney diseases in western medicine, such as acute nephritis, chronic nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, urinary tract infection, urinary calculi and renal failure. It can be described by TCM syndromes such as edema, stranguria, stranguria and fatigue, and can be treated by combining TCM syndrome differentiation with disease differentiation.