Herb is one of important parts in Traditional Chinese Medicine which has been more and more popular in the modern medical area. And some herbs also have shown a good efficacy on relieving symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease, like back pain, urinary tract infection, blood urine, high blood pressure, etc. Then, what herbs can be used for PKD patients?

Herbs all come from nature which are some plant part used for its scent, flavor, or therapeutic properties. Before taking the herbal medicines, it is important to consult the Chinese medicine doctor who can make a prescription according to your illness conditions. Then, we will introduce several herbs that commonly used for PKD patients.

Bur-reed

Cyst in PKD will become more and more big along with the progression of illness condition. It is reported that bur-reed is proved to be workable for inhibiting the growth of cysts and can be used as an alternative choice for patients.

Carabao

Carabao is a common grass around in the Philippines. The medical use of this plant is its root and leaves. For PKD patients, they will suffer from various symptoms and complications like infections, fever, low immunity and so on. It is capable to inhibit staphylococcus that can cause skin infection. The studies about a kind of grass the have pytochemical properties that are very useful to healing fever, stomach trouble and wound.

Cordyceps

Cysts on kidney will damage more and more renal function, and damaged kidneys fail to filter excessive wastes and toxins, triggering various discomforts. Cordyceps can help eliminate the immune complexes on the glomerular filtration membrane so as to increase glomerular filtration rate (GFR).

Actually, aside from the signal herbal medicine, I prefer recommending a more systemic treatments which are innovations from TCM, like Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Foot Bath, Maikang Mixture and so on. If you want to get the therapies, you can email to renal-disease@hotmail.com or leave a message below directly.