Three Home Remedies For Kidney Disease

Different from ancestral secret recipes or classic recipes, the composition of remedies is very simple and has little medicinal taste, so it is easy to obtain local materials. As a nephrologist, the author often hears or learns about some remedies in the treatment of nephropathy from the nephropathy patients we have treated. Here are three examples.

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1. "Duck Steamed Garlic" for Glomerulonephritis

     "Duck steamed garlic" for the treatment of glomerulonephritis has been passed down by some patients with nephropathy. I heard that the duck in this recipe must be "mall duck", and the watermelon must be dug into a "triangular hole" with a sharp knife, and it must be covered with a "tile dish". This is the so-called "pissed off famous doctor" recipe. From the modern point of view, this is not a cure, it is a gimmick to fool people. Old ducks are not necessarily mallards, why can't old ducks of other colors be used? Could it be that the ingredients of duck meat are also different depending on the color of the duck's head? Why are "round holes" and "porcelain plates" not allowed, but "triangular holes" and "tile cover"? The purpose is to increase the mystery.

2. "Boiled Astragalus with Hen" is used to treat kidney failure

     The hens in the "hen boiled astragalus" recipe should use old hens and eat them for 2-3 days, and they must eat multiple old hens in a row. There are also the so-called remedies that can "piss off famous doctors". From the point of view of Western medicine, this is where the treatment is, and it is clearly intended to make the patients with renal failure progress rapidly. To talk about the size of an old hen, even a smaller old hen would probably weigh about 2 kilograms. Eating such a high-protein food within 2-3 days, and continuing to do so, coupled with a daily normal diet, will inevitably aggravate the condition of patients with renal failure who should have been on a high-quality low-protein diet.

3. "Corn silk soaked in water" can cure kidney disease

     "Drinking corn silk in water" to treat kidney disease is also a so-called home remedy that has been circulating for a long time in kidney disease patients, and many kidney friends really believe and adopt it. Having edema does not mean having kidney disease, and having kidney disease does not mean having edema. Drinking corn silk soaked in water to treat edema or kidney disease can really "kill a famous doctor". From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine properties, flavor, meridian, and efficacy, corn silk can of course be used to treat kidney disease, especially in patients with kidney disease combined with edema. The use of corn silk in combination with other traditional Chinese medicines can have a certain diuretic effect. However, we found that the diuretic effect of drinking it with water alone is really insignificant, or almost ineffective, not to mention the protein-reducing effect.

     Of course, folk remedies for kidney disease are far more than that. I don't want to list more here, for fear of misleading more kidney disease patients.

     It is not difficult to see that the above three remedies cannot withstand careful analysis and scrutiny. From pharmacological analysis and disease judgment, although these remedies can mislead patients who are in a state of emergency, they cannot mislead "clear" doctors, that is, to understand the pharmacological properties and diseases. Characteristic doctor.

     Nature is magical, and its gifts to human beings are selfless. However, it is obviously inadvisable and unscientific to try to cure kidney diseases with complex mechanisms by relying solely on Chinese herbal remedies.

     Folk remedies for kidney disease often have another characteristic. Kidney diseases that happen to be cured tend to be more and more popular. However, the few people with kidney disease who are rumored to be miraculous are not actually cured by remedies. They may be those with relatively mild or self-healing kidney diseases, such as the following types of kidney diseases.

1. Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis

     Edema disease can also be caused by post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, commonly referred to as "acute nephritis". It is common in children and can also be seen in adults. The vast majority of mild acute nephritis can be fully recovered without medication. If the patient happens to be used for the so-called remedies and the edema is better, it is considered to be cured by the remedies.

2. Membranous nephropathy manifesting as nephrotic syndrome

     Among the diseases manifesting as nephrotic syndrome, one is membranous nephropathy, which is nephropathy with a high rate of spontaneous remission. Maybe after a period of treatment, the effect is not very obvious, but with the prolongation of the disease course, about 1/5 to 1/4 of idiopathic membranous nephropathy patients can spontaneously remission. If the so-called remedies are used during this period, it is likely to be considered as the "credit" of the remedies, but in fact, I just encountered membranous nephropathy that can "self-heal".

3. IgA nephropathy manifesting as chronic nephritic syndrome

     IgA nephropathy can be mild or severe. IgA nephropathy is clinically manifested as chronic nephritic syndrome, some patients are often mild: low proteinuria, no edema, mild pathological type, normal blood pressure, and renal function. Patients with this type of IgA nephropathy do not even need medication, and only minor abnormalities are found during special tests (such as urine protein analysis). In addition, in the natural history of IgA nephropathy patients, about one-tenth of IgA nephropathy patients can also completely heal themselves. If you happen to be using certain remedies, it is easy to mistakenly think that it is cured by remedies.

     Medicine has developed to a modern level, those so-called remedies should never be believed, especially those with unknown origins or ingredients. The illness that cannot be delayed due to home remedies, or even directly aggravates the illness or leads to death, such tragedies are not rare. The final result is: "Famous remedies kill famous doctors" not because they cured the kidney disease but killed it.

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