The use of herbal medicines is gaining popularity among patients, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, due to the rising cost of prescriptions and a desire to return to natural therapies. While some conventional physicians don’t consider alternatives like herbs to be therapeutically valid, many health care professionals are eager to learn more so they can answer patients’ questions. Some physicians have established referral relationships with naturopathic physicians or even have staff on-site who might prescribe herbal medicines. If you aren’t already sold on the idea of their advantages, chances are that you’re at least curious about herbal medicines. Like any medicine, there are pros and cons to herbals.

Definition

Herbal medicine should not be confused with dietary supplements. While they may have similar or even some of the same components, there should be a difference in how they are used and in their actions on the body. Dietary supplements, also called nutritional supplements or simply “vitamins,” do not necessarily contain herbal components and are specifically for adding nutrients — vitamins, mineral, amino acids and others — to your body. Herbal medicine, sometimes called botanical medicine or phytomedicine, involves the use of plants for medically therapeutic purposes. Depending on the plant, a number of plant parts may be used as medicine, including the seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark and flowers.

Long Tradition

Herbs have been used as medicine for centuries, far longer than the drugs used in conventional Western medicine. Today, traditional Chinese medicine physicians and Ayurvedic practitioners use some of the same formulas that the founders of their professions used long ago to heal and prevent disease. The use of herbal medicine has always been standard medical practice in some countries, like Germany, where the University of Maryland Medical Center says 70 percent of that country’s physicians prescribe more than 600 plant-based medicines.

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Multi-Systemic

Dr. Anne Jeffres, Associate Academic Dean and Research Faculty at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, says herbs and herbal formulas provide a natural solution for many conditions, and can be as or more effective than comparable pharmaceuticals — with little or no side effects — when overseen by a qualified licensed professional. Also, many herbs have been shown to benefit a variety of body systems simultaneously — for example, your immune and digestive systems. Some of those include Ginseng, Reishi mushrooms, and Astragalus. This multi-systemic effect eliminates the need for multiple pharmaceuticals with multiple possible side effects. This is also one of the reasons that herbs and herbal formulas are often more affordable than comparable pharmaceuticals or other interventions.

Chemical Analysis

Though made from plants, herbal medicine’s components and actions aren’t necessarily simple. Scientists have chemically analyzed medicinal plants to break down the active ingredients and understand how they work in the body. In fact, that’s how the first drugs were created — by using plant compounds. This long-time knowledge of the individual chemicals in herbals, plus the fact that the medications are often compounded specifically for each patient’s prescription, adds flexibility to the list of benefits. Dr. Jeffres explains herbal formulas that are made up of several or more individual herbs can be modified and tailored to individual needs by adding or subtracting or changing the dosage of particular herbs within the formula.

Scarce Evidence

The primary disadvantage of herbal medicine is, as described in Special Report for The Permanente Journal, that there’s little evidence from randomized controlled trials that supports the use of many herbal supplements. Dr. Jeffres, who holds a Doctoral degree in Oriental Medicine, says while some aspects of herb drug interactions may still be unknown, there is a growing body of data related to potential herb-drug interactions. She recommends the extensive database compiled by Memorial Sloan Kettering for information on safest practices.

Quality Control Issues

In the United States, there is no agency or organization that is officially charged with the task of oversight in the manufacturing or labeling of herbal medicines. You, the consumer, are at risk in terms of the actual contents and the accuracy of dosages. Dr. Jeffres says the best way to make sure you’re accessing the right herbal treatments is to seek the guidance of a highly-trained, licensed professional. She adds that all patients seeing an herbalist should also consult a physician regarding

any medical conditions. In many areas, you’ll find licensed acupuncturist with national certification in Chinese Herbology or Oriental Medicine. You want to enlist the services of someone with a minimum of Masters-level training. Other practitioners who might prescribe herbal medicine include chiropractors, naturopathic physicians, compounding pharmacists, and even M.D’s.

A healthy kidney (left) eliminates waste from the blood and maintains the body’s normal chemical balance. Fluid-filled sacs (right), called cysts, characterize polycystic kidney disease.

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is an inherited disorder in which clusters of cysts develop primarily within your kidneys. Cysts are noncancerous round sacs containing water-like fluid. The cysts vary in size and, as they accumulate more fluid, they can grow very large.

Usually the most severely affected organs are kidneys, but polycystic kidney disease can cause cysts to develop in your liver and elsewhere in your body. The disease causes a variety of serious complications. High blood pressure and Kidney failure are common problems for people with polycystic kidney disease. Polycystic kidney disease varies greatly in its severity.

Causes

Abnormal genes cause polycystic kidney disease, and the genetic defects mean the disease runs in families. Rarely, a genetic mutation can be the cause of polycystic kidney disease.

Types of PKD

PKD can be divided into two types:autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and the less common autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease( ARPKD).

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Signs and symptoms of ADPKD often develop between the ages of 30 and 40. In the past, this type was called adult polycystic kidney disease, but children can develop the disorder.

Only one parent needs to have the disease in order for it to pass along to the children. If one parent has ADPKD, each child has a 50 percent chance of getting the disease. This form accounts for about 90 percent of cases of polycystic kidney disease.

Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD). This type is far less common than is ADPKD. The signs and symptoms often appear shortly after birth. Sometimes, symptoms don’t appear until later in childhood or during adolescence.

Both parents must have abnormal genes to pass on this form of the disease. If both parents carry a gene for this disorder, each child has a 25 percent chance of getting the disease.

Symptoms

Polycystic kidney disease symptoms may include:

High blood pressure

Back or side pain

Headache

Increase in the size of your abdomen

Blood in your urine

Frequent urination

Kidney stones

Kidney failure

Urinary tract or kidney infections

Tests and diagnosis
Tests for detecting the size and number of kidney cysts you have are:

Ultrasound exam. During an ultrasound, a wand-like device called a transducer is placed on your body. It emits inaudible sound waves that are reflected back to the transducer — like sonar. A computer translates the reflected sound waves into images of your kidneys.

Computerized tomography (CT) scan. As you lie on a movable table, you’re guided into a big doughnut-shaped device that projects very thin X-ray beams through your body. Your doctor is able to see cross-sectional images of your kidneys.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. As you lie inside a large cylinder, magnetic fields and radio waves generate cross-sectional views of your kidneys.

Treatments
Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an external therapy based on traditional Chinese herbal medicine. First our specialists select the effective Chinese herb formulas after they thoroughly investigate your case, Second, the Chinese herbs in the formulas are made superfine powders, Third, the powders are activated by heat or superconducting, Finally, by osmosis devices, the activated superfine medicines will be applied to the acupoints of Kidney and other organs. The effective ingredients penetrate the skin and permeate into kidney lesions directly.

The ingredients of scientifically composed Chinese medicine herbs can dredge blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation on cysts wall as well as drive the absorption of cystic fluid into blood vessels and then get discharged out of the body through urine. The size of cysts will become smaller. In addition, the microcirculation in kidneys is improved, more oxygen and nutrients will reach to kidneys. The active ingredients also stimulate the self-renewal of impaired kidney tissues and improve renal functions.

Symptomatic treatment

As the most common treatments , treating polycystic kidney disease involves dealing with the symptoms and complications in their early stages: In case of high bllod pressure, controlling it may delay the progression of the disease and slow further kidney damage. Combining a low-sodium, low-fat diet that’s moderate in protein and calorie content with not smoking, increasing exercise and reducing stress may help control high blood pressure. Chronic pain, usually located in your back or your side, is a common symptom of polycystic kidney disease. Often, the pain is mild and you can control it with over-the-counter medications containing acetaminophen. While symptomatic treatment can release some discomfort or slow the disease progression, it can not halt its progression.

Surgery

The enlarged cysts will cause extreme pain. In these cases, surgery may be needed to remove the cysts. Although surgery can relieve the pain, the small cysts will become large soon after the enlarged ones are removed, and the pain may come again. Also as an invasive medical procedure, most patients are reluntant to take it unless they have noother choices. Talk with our experts for Traditional Chinese Medicine options in your special case.

Dialysis and kidney transplant

The size and number of the cysts may increase with time as patients get over 60. More enlarged cysts will further damage kidney tissues and result in progressive renal function deterioration, eventually, lead to Kidney Failure. Dialysis and kidney transplant are necessary. For patiens of Polycystic kidney disease, our suggestions are: well observing the advances of the condition and treating it early. Talk with our Chinese Medicine Specialists for suitable treatments in our hospital.

Kidney cysts are round pouches of fluid that form on or in the kidneys. Kidney cysts can be associated with serious disorders that may impair kidney function. But more commonly, kidney cysts are a type called simple kidney cysts — noncancerous cysts that rarely cause complications.

Causes

The causes of simple kidney cysts are not clear. Typically, only one cyst occurs on the surface of a kidney, but multiple cysts can affect one or both kidneys. However, simple kidney cysts aren’t the same as the cysts that form with polycystic kidney disease.

Simple kidney cysts are often detected during an imaging test performed for another condition. Simple kidney cysts that don’t cause signs or symptoms usually don’t require treatment.

Symptoms

Simple kidney cysts usually do not cause symptoms. In most cases, a doctor finds them during an ultrasound or computerized tomography (CT) scan done for another reason. However, simple kidney cysts may:

Cause pain in your side, back, or upper abdomen if they enlarge and press on other organs

Bleed

Become infected, causing fever, chills, or other signs of infection

Impair kidney function (rare)

Simple kidney cysts have been associated with high blood pressure, but it is unclear what the relationship is between the two.

In case of Complex Kidney Cyst, patients may experience many different symptoms:

• Urinary tract infection

• Hematuria, or Blood in Urine

• Headache

• Pain of abdomen or lower back

• Hypertension, or High Blood Pressure

• Frequent urination

• Fever

At times, these cysts rupture resulting in minor or severe symptoms including:

• Blood in urine (hematuria)

• Back and abdominal pain

• Pain in waist and hips

• Sepsis

• Hemorrhage

Bursted kidney cysts, in serious conditions, can result in obstructed blood flow in certain parts of the kidney; leading to damage. Hence, it is essential to treat is as early as possible.

Kidney Cyst can be treated effectively with the help of different treatment options. It is just important to consult the doctor instantly if you suffer from any of the aforementioned symptoms.

Diagnosis

Imaging tests. Imaging tests, such as an ultrasound, a computerized tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are often used to investigate simple kidney cysts. Imaging tests can help your doctor determine whether a kidney mass is a cyst or a tumor.

Kidney function tests. Testing a sample of your blood may reveal whether a kidney cyst is impairing your kidney function

Treatments

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

As an innovative traditional herbal medicine, Micro-Chinese Medicine is an external application with no side effect. Curative effects for Kidney Cyst include:

– Stop the growth of cyst in the kidney. Through restrain the section of cystic fluid and inhibit the proliferation of epithelial cells, the further enlargement of cyst can be prevented.

– Shrink the cyst gradually. It will become smaller and smaller. Once disappear, the cyst will never recur.

– Improve kidney function. This is based on the functions of Chinese medicine to anti-inflammation, improve microcirculation, eliminate harmful substances, and privide a favorable milieu for repairing the damaged kidney.

As a new way to treat Kidney Cyst naturally, this remedy gives patients with new hope to live a good, long life. You can make an appointment with our renowned nephrologists to get yourself evaluated for this treatment.

Medicated Bath

Medicated Bath is a natural bath therapy which has been suggested to treat renal cyst since very ancient time. It may help patients to shrink the cyst in size, alleviate symptoms, and reduce elevated blood pressure. If you are interested to get more information about this treatment, feel free to Contact Us.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) techniques such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, food therapy, qigong, cupping, etc can also be used as complementary treatment for your better recovery from Kidney Cyst.

High blood pressure makes your heart work harder and damages your blood vessels. As the blood vessels in your kidney become damaged, they lose their effectiveness in screening the wastes from your body. This increases the fluids in your body and increases your blood pressure even more.

The damage of the blood vessels in your kidneys due to high blood pressure is called as Hypertensive Nephropathy.

Causes
Chronic high blood pressure causes damages to kidney tissue; this includes the small blood vessels, glomeruli, kidney tubules and interstitial tissues. The tissue hardens and thickens which is known as nephrosclerosis. The narrowing of the blood vessels means less blood is going to the tissue and so less oxygen is reaching the tissue resulting in tissue death (ischemia). Risk factors for HN include poorly controlled moderate to high blood pressure, older age, other kidney disorders. and Afro-Caribbean background – unclear whether this is due to them being more genetically susceptible to kidney damage by hypertension or whether it is because of poor management of high blood pressure amongst them.

Sympotoms

If high blood pressure runs in your family, the presence of the disease seems to increase chances of developing kidney disease. Symptoms of kidney disease due to high blood pressure include:

A need to urinate more often, especially at night

Decrease in amount of urine or difficulty urinating

Edema (fluid retention), especially in the lower legs

Diagnosis
Certain laboratory tests include serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen (BUN); too much of either can indicate kidney damage. Proteinuria, an excess of protein in the urine, is also a sign of kidney disease.

Treatment

Hypertensive kidney disease is due to long-term uncontrolled high blood pressure which damages the small blood vessels, glomeruli, kidney tubules and interstitial tissues. If left untreated or treated ineffectively, it may lead to kidney failure. The treatments for hypertensive kidney disease should focus on both controlling high blood pressure and reversing kidney damage at the same time.

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an advanced herbal remedy for hypertensive kidney disease.This is an external therapy based on traditional herbal medicine and the medicine ingredients can act on kidney lesion directly through skin penetrating. Using different effective medicine combinations, the treaatments not only widen the blood vessels to control the blood pressure but also improve the microcirculation in kidneys and repair the impaired kidney tissues, so that ,renal function will be enhanced.

Medicated Bath

Medicated Bath has been used to treat a variety of conditions and aliments up to now. It also has showed enormous treatment effects in treating hypertensive kidney disease.

Through sweating Skin excretes large amount of wastes in our body every day. In addition, effective medicine ingredients can penetrate into body organs through open sweat pores of the Skin. Based on the patients’ condition, Medicated Bath with different formulas of herbs can improve systemic blood circulation and increase blood supply to kidneys to correct renal ischemia and anoxia. Also the effective medicines can enter body and increase the self-renewal of impaired kidney tissues.

This therapy is not approxiate for patients with extremely high blood pressure, or the patients who have dizziness, heart disease etc. If you are interested in the therapy, you are welcome to talk with our doctors first.

Blood Detoxifying and Purification

High levels of toxins will build up in body if hypertensive kidney disease advanced into a late stage. Blood Detoxifying and Purification can purify blood by removing all kinds of toxins and wastes from body to get a favorable internal environment for repairing the impaired kidneys.

FSGS (“focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis” or just “focal sclerosis”) is scarring within the kidney that can only be seen clearly under the microscope. Therefore it is normally only diagnosed after a biopsy test of the kidney. What you see under the microscope is that the “glomeruli”, which are the tiny structures which filter the blood to make urine, are scarred (or “sclerosed”).

if left untreated, following complications may follow:

1. High blood pressure may develop. This damages the kidneys and puts a strain on the heart and the rest of the circulation. Therefore high blood pressure should be treated vigorously.

2. If there is a lot of protein in the urine, the cholesterol level may be very high, requiring a special diet and sometimes cholesterol lowering drugs as well.

3. As noted above, kidney failure may sometimes occur. If so, it develops slowly, so you need not be concerned about a sudden change in your condition overnight.

4. If there is fluid retention with ankle swelling, this may get worse.

5. In some cases kidney failure develops, leading to the question of dialysis or transplantation.

Causes
It seems that the general cause of FSGS is immunological. That is, the antibodies and white blood cells we have to fight off infection cause some damage to our own bodies by mistake. In FSGS any damage is usually only in the kidneys, so the rest of you should be alright. In a few cases the condition seems to run in families, but this is uncommon.

Symptoms of FSGS
The Sympotoms are fifferent from case to case. In many cases there are no symptoms, but the damage to the glomeruli causes some protein to appear in the urine. Therefore a routine medical check may pick this up. In some cases the level of protein loss can be very high and fluid retention with ankle swelling may occur. In other cases kidney failure can develop which may give tiredness or sickness if kidney failure is very advanced.

Diagnosis

• Conventional tests: urine test, blood test, and kidney biopsy.

• Immune special examination and diagnosis

– Kidney damage tests. Checking items include: UTP, U-malb, U-TRF, U-IGG, β 2-microglobulin, α1-microglobulin, α2-macroglobulin, κ light chain, λ light chain, U- NAG, U-GGT, and Uosm.

– Urinary protein electrophoresis.

– Selective urine protein index (SPI).

– Complement in blood serum test. This test include C3, C4, CH50, C3B, etc.

– Toxins in blood test. Checking items include: BUN, Creatinine, UA, β 2-microglobulin, Cyc C, RBP, HCY, and PTH.

Treaments
Our expert team has the first-rate expertises and lot of experience in treating FSGS. We use several Traditional Chinese Medicine combinations specially tailored to each conditions. These latest and advanced therapies for FSGS does not has side effects on your body and they are developed in China and only available in China. If you or your beloved one are diagnosed with FSGS, welcome to contact with our kidney doctors for the best treatment options in our hospital. Depending on the severity of your kidney damages. our experts will suggest you some of following therapies to treat your kidney disease.

Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy

As the latest treatment for FSGS. Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy not only relieve the symptoms but also treat kidney disease from the root cause. Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy has three therapy processes:

a. detoxify and clean your blood

b. supplement the blood with necessary nutrition

c. restore the blood and kidney functions.

Feel free to contact us to see whether your condition is suitable for Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy?

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a promising new kidney disease treatment that stimulates a patient’s immune system so it is able to fight diseases. This treatment combines traditional chinese medicine and western medicine. Its aim is to cure kidney disease by rebuilding the normal balance of patient’s immune system. So far the treatment effects are satisfactory

Based on an accurate diagnosis. the therapy includes Five treatment prcoesses of which some steps will be recommended to you according to your special conditions. Welcome you to discuss with our doctors for details and for options.

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

It is solely natural Traditional Chinese Medicine remedy which is applied externally with no adverse effects to human body. It is charaterised by efficient effects – usually patients show symptoms releasing after one week treatment.

Activated Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy dredges blood vessels, release inflammation and coagulation, and degrade harmful materials like immune complexes and extracellular matrix., etc. Welcome to make an appointment with our renowned experts to get yourself evaluated for this therapy.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Other Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) choices such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, food therapy, massage, cupping, etc may also be included in your treatment plans for your better recovery from FSGS, and some patients respond very well to some items. Please talk with our Chinese medicine Specialists to see what you may need for your conditions.

Diabetic nephropathy is damage to your kidneys caused by diabetes. In severe cases it can lead to kidney failure. But not everyone with diabetes has kidney damage.

Causes of diabetic nephropathy
The kidneys have many tiny blood vessels that filter waste from your blood. High blood sugar from diabetes can destroy these blood vessels. Over time, the kidney isn’t able to do its job as well. Later it may stop working completely. This is called kidney failure.

Certain things make you more likely to get diabetic nephropathy. If you also have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or if you smoke, your risk is higher.

Symptoms
There are no symptoms in the early stages. So it’s important to have regular urine tests to find kidney damage early. Sometimes early kidney damage can be reversed. As your kidneys are less able to do their job, you may notice swelling in your body, most often in your feet and legs.

Diagnosis
The problem is diagnosed using simple tests that check for a protein called albumin in the urine. Urine doesn’t usually contain protein. But in the early stages of kidney damage-before you have any symptoms-some protein may be found in your urine, because your kidneys aren’t able to filter it out the way they should. Finding kidney damage early can keep it from getting worse. So it’s important for people with diabetes to have regular testing, usually every year.

Treatments
Control your blood sugar

Uncontrolled blood sugar in your blood may lead to occurrence and progression of diabetic kidney disease. The strain on kidneys will be decreased and therefore renal function decline is delayed by strict control of blood suger. In early stage, tight control of blood sugar even can reverse kidney damage.

Control blood pressure

High blood pressure can increase the stress on kidneys and is a major accelerator in worsening renal function. ACE inhibitors are first-line medications to lower blood pressure in Kidney Disease. It can delay the renal function decline and reduce proteinuria. In addition, it is effective in slowing the progression of diabetic retinopathy and the development of proliferative retinopathy. Some patients may need multiple kinds of blood pressure medicines like calcium channel blockers and beta-blockers and diuretics to control blood pressure.

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a natural external therapy for diabetic nephropathy. It can dilate blood vessels and improve microcirculation in body. It stimulates the self-renewal capacity of impaired kidney tissues and enhances renal function.

However,the therapy is not appropriate for all patients with diabetic kidney disease. Talk with our online doctor to see if you are suitable for the therapy?

Immunotherapy

Immune system disorder is one of major causes for diabetic kidney damage. The immune system attacks kidneys by mistakes, resulting in kidney damage. Immunotherapy uses advanced medical technolgies to correct dysfunction of immune system, rebuild immune system balance, and reverse the impaired kidney damage.

Kidney replacement therapy

The last choice to keep the patients alive is Dialysis and Kidney Transplant if kidneys fail to work. Dialysis removes wastes from body, but has few effects in improving renal function. The patient’s kidney is replaced with a healthy kidney through kidney transplant. which can prolong their life span. However, the patients with serious complications of diabetes are at higher risk than patients without diabetes.

What is IgA Nephropathy?
Many diseases can affect your kidney function by attacking and damaging the glomeruli, the tiny filtering units inside your kidney where blood is cleaned. Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy, called IgAN for short, or Berger’s disease, is a condition that damages the glomeruli inside your kidneys and can cause kidney disease.

Causes

The causes of IgAN are not well understood. IgAN is not just a kidney disease. It is a response from your immune system to outside irritation (like viruses). The immune response is what affects your kidneys. The immune response releases Immunoglobulin A (IgA). Immunoglobulin A is a protein that helps your body fight infections. IgA nephropathy occurs when IgA protein gets stuck in kidneys causing inflammation. The inflammation causes your kidneys to leak blood and protein (usually immediately) and over the course of many years, your kidneys can lose function and lead to kidney failure. In some cases, the disease seems to cluster in certain families and in certain areas of the world. It rarely occurs in people of African heritage. Some researchers believe there are genetic factors that may play a role in causing the disease.

Symptoms of IgA nephropathy
Each person may have a different set of signs and symptoms from IgAN.

The most common signs are

Hematuria: Having blood in your urine that can sometimes make it dark brown or cola colored.

Proteinuria: Foamy urine due to large amounts of protein leaking into your urine.

Diagnosis TESTS

Urine test: A urine test will help find protein and blood in your urine.

Blood test: A blood test will help find levels of protein, cholesterol, and wastes in your blood.

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR): A blood test will be done to know how well your kidneys are filtering the wastes from your body.

Kidney biopsy: In this test, a tiny piece of your kidney is removed with a special needle, and looked at under a microscope. The kidney biopsy may show if you have a certain type of a protein that helps your body fight infection, called an IgA antibody, in the glomerulus.

Treatments

After our expert team makes thorough evaluation of each conditions, depending on the severity of kidney damage, we will use one or more of our featured therapies to treat your kidney disease.

Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy

Because of the dyfucntion of the patient’s kidney, there is more poisons in the blood. After more than 30 year research and clinical practice, we developed Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy. Based on specific conditions of each patients, using the proved Chinese Medicine formulas to clean the blood first which is very critical step, and then make the organs blance. The theray not only relieve the symptoms and prevent complications, but also can treat kidney disease fundamentally with no further relapse. This most advanced treatment integrates comprehensive blood purification methods with traditional Chinese medicine and get remarkable results.

Immunotherapy

Combining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, Immunotherapy aims at regulation of the internal environmental immune balance of the body which is very effective in treating IgA Nephropathy. As a natural and safe treatment, it applies to to patients of all ages. The treatment help patients restore the overall renal function and the holistic immune system.

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

IgA Nephropathy is featured with IgA proteins and immune complex deposits in the mesangial area of the kidneys. In western medicines, the treatment usually fails to clear these depositions out of the body, the disease often relapses. By dredging and clearing immune complexes out of the body, Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy treat IgA Nephropathy from the root cause. In addition, Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy promotes blood circulation, inhibits inflammation, and restores kidney function gradually.

1. What is nephrotic syndrome?
Nephrotic syndrome is a sign that your kidneys aren’t working right. As a result, you have:

High levels of protein in your urine.

Low levels of protein in your blood.

You may also have high levels of cholesterol in your blood.

Nephrotic syndrome isn’t a disease. It’s a warning that something is damaging your kidneys. Without treatment, that problem could cause kidney failure. So it’s important to get treatment right away. Nephrotic syndrome can occur at any age. But it is most common in children between the ages of 18 months and 8 years.

2. Causes
The kidneys have tiny blood vessels called glomeruli that filter waste and extra water from the blood. Healthy kidneys keep the right amount of protein in the blood. Protein helps move water from the tissues into the blood. When the tiny filters are damaged, too much protein slips from the blood into the urine. As a result, fluid builds up in the tissues and causes swelling.

Nephrotic syndrome is often caused by:

A type of kidney disease called minimal change disease (or nil disease). This is the main cause of nephrotic syndrome in children. Doctors don’t know what causes minimal change disease.

Diabetes. This is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults.

Many other things can cause the blood vessel damage that leads to nephrotic syndrome, including:

Kidney diseases that attack the glomeruli, such as membranous glomerulopathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

Diseases such as lupus and certain cancers.

Infections, such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.

Medicines such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

3. Symptoms
Symptoms may include:

Swelling around the eyes or in the feet or ankles. This is the most common symptom.

Fatigue.

Weight gain (from fluid buildup).

Foam when urinating.

Loss of appetite.

4. Diagnosis
Urine tests to measure the amount of protein in your urine.

Blood tests to measure the amount of protein, cholesterol, and sugar (glucose) in your blood.

Ultrasound to look at the kidneys. This test can rule out other causes of your symptoms

A kidney biopsy may be done to find the cause, if Nephrotic Syndrome is not clearly caused by Diabetes. Children do not usually have a biopsy.

5. Outlook

The outcome varies depending on the cause of the Nephrotic Syndrome, the person’s age, and the type and degree of kidney damage. Symptoms may disappear completely if the disease occurs as a result of a treatable disorder, such as an infection, drugs, etc. If the underlying condition responds to corticosteroids, progression of the disease is halted at times, and less often the condition partially or, rarely, completely reverses.

Fortunately, if patients do not respond to drugs treatment, there is alternative therapy to help them avoid progressing to Kidney Failure. Contact our TCM-adviser for detailed information.

6. TCM treatments

Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy

Blood Pollution Therapy is the most effective treatment for Nephrotic Syndrome. This is a holistic treatment which can treat kidney disease from the root cause and avoid further relapse.

The whole treatment process includes three steps: advanced blood purification techniques to clear up toxins in the body, supply essential elements to the blood, and restore the kidney function as well as regulate the immune system.

To what degree can you recover under this treatment? Feel free to Make an Appointment with renowned kidney experts for comprehensive analysis.

Immunotherapy

Nephrotic Syndrome is usually an autoimmune disorder. So, Immunotherapy is a good choice of natural treatment for this kidney disease.

The whole treatment include six steps named an accurate diagnosis, inhibit excessive inflammatory response, immune tolerance, immune adjustment, immune protection, and immune clearance. Based on each patient’s specific illness condition, certain steps are chosen to ensure satisfactory curative effects.

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

If you are seeking for herbal medicine treatment for Nephrotic Syndrome, Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the best available option. Different from conventional herbal remedy, it is an external application with no side effect to human body.

Chinese herbal medicine selected by kidney experts based on personalized condition is micronized into one thousandths of its original size. By applying microwave, the medicine will be permeated into the renal lesion directly through the skin and channels.

Effective ingredients of Chinese medicine can function to expend the blood vessels, inhibit excess inflammatory reaction, anti-coagulation, and degrade immune complexes and extracellular matrix. Treatment effects can be seen soon within one week after getting this therapy. If you are interested to get more detailed information, feel free to Contact Us.

What Is Kidney Failure?
Your kidneys filter your blood and remove toxins from your body. Your kidneys send toxins to your bladder. Your body later removes toxins during urination. Kidney failure refers to partial or complete loss of renal function. Your body becomes overloaded with toxins. This can lead to kidney failure and even be life-threatening if it’s left untreated.

Causes of Kidney Failure

Causes of chronic kidney failure

Diabetes,leading cause of chronic kidney failure

High blood pressure

Glomerulonephritis, in which the filtering units of the kidneys are inflamed

Genetic kidney disease like polycystic kidney disease (PKD), Alport Syndrome

Pyelonephritis, recurrent kidney infection

Prolonged urinary tract obstruction due to enlarged prostate,kidney stones and some cancers

Vesicoureteral reflux, a condition which can cause urine to back up into kidneys

Causes of acute kidney failure

Conditions that slow blood flow to your kidneys such as heart disease, liver failure, severe burn….

Direct damage to your kidneys

Urine drainage tubes become blocked and wastes can not leave your body through urine

Symptoms of Kidney Failure
changes in urination

The patients may have more or less urine than usual, urgent urination,changes in urine colors. Foamy urine results from

excess protein in urine. Cola-colored urine occurs when their is loss of red blood cells in urine.

swelling of your legs, ankles, and feet from retention of fluids caused by the failure of your kidneys to eliminate water waste

unexplained shortness of breath

high blood presure

excessive drowsiness or fatigue

persistent nausea

confusion

pain or pressure in your chest

seizures

skin disorders

anemia

a coma

Diagnosis

Diagnosis of kidney failure includes:

Urinalysis and Urine Volume Measurements

for abnormal protein or sugar that spills into the urine.

Blood Samples

for blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine (Cr).

Imaging

Ultrasounds, MRI, and CT scans provide images of the kidneys themselves, along with the urinary tract.

Kidney Tissue Sample

Tissue samples are examined for abnormal deposits, scarring, or infectious organisms.

Treatments

Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a featured therapy for kidney failure.It is an external therapy based on traditional Chinese herbal medicine.Firstly,Micro-Chinese medicine can dilate blood vessels and improve blood circulation,which can improve micro-circulation in kidneys and provide more nutrients for the impaired nephrons. Secondly,Micro-Chinese medicine has anti-inflammation function and it can suppress inflammatory response in kidneys.Moreover,it can help anti-coagulation and anti-thrombosis.All in all,Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can stop fibrosis of kidney tissues and prevent progressive renal function deterioration.

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a systemic therapy,which combines Chinese medicines, western medicines and advanced blood purification technique together. The ultimate purpose of immunotherapy is to help adjust the abnormal immune system and recover the body’s self-healing system in body. The treatment process of immunotherapy in treating kidney failure include six treatment steps:scientific tests,blocking immune reaction,immune tolerance, immune regulation, immune protection and immune clearance. If you are wondering more detailed information about each treatment step.

Medicated Bath

Medicated bath is an external therapy for kidney failure.Our skin is an important excretory organ.When medicated bath is performed,it can open the pores.Some wastes will be filtered out of body through the pores and also some useful substances will enter body.These substances can provide important nutrients for repairing impaired nephrons and improving renal function.

Blood Detoxifying and Purifying Therapy

In kidney failure, high levels of toxins and wastes accumulate in blood, which can further damage kidneys and result in a host of problems. Blood purification can purify blood and remove wastes and toxins from body.

The above are major treatment options for kidney failure. Based on your condition, the treatment plan often involves different treatments. You can chat with our online medical professional and get to know a tailored treatment plan based on your condition.