Cordyceps Sinensis Helps Kidney Disease Patients

Cordyceps sinensis is a valuable tonic for patients suffering from various kidney diseases. It can help regulate renal disorders, improve kidney function, regulate immune dysfunction and enhance immunity.

Kidney disease patients will suffer from many symptoms and complications such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, anemia, swelling, endocrine disorder, nervous damages, low immunity as well as discomforts and complications in other organs and systems.

The main compositions in cordyceps sinensis are cordycepin, cordycepic acid (such as nucleic acid and fatty acid), adenosine and polysaccharide, etc. Cordycepin has antibacterial and antitumor properties and it also has good regulation on the endocrine system and nervous system. Cordycepic acid has significant effects on lowering high blood lipid and can promote blood circulation in the body so as to increase blood flow to the kidneys and removing blood and qi stagnation. Polysaccharide in cordyceps sinensis is natural immune regulator which can help enhance immune function and improve the patients disease-resistance ability.

Cordyceps sinensis has many benefits to CKD patients. It has been proved to help slow down illness progression of kidney disease, relieve renal toxicities, improve kidney function.

Kidney disease often cause renal anemia due to decreased secretion of erythropoietin which has the function to stimulate the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Cordyceps sinensis can intensify bone marrow functions to produce enough red blood cells, white blood cells and platelet. Bleeding tendency will also be relieved.

Kidney disease patients often have high cholesterol and triglyceride due to fat metabolic disorder. This will worsen high blood pressure and increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases which are the major cause of death for chronic renal disease patients. Cordyceps sinensis can lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels and at the same time increase high-density lipoprotein which is good for the health so as to reduce atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular complications of kidney disease.

CKD patients often have high blood potassium due to renal dysfunction. High blood potassium can damage the heart function and cause arrhythmia and in some serious conditions this can be even life-threatening. Cordyceps sinensis can reduce oxygen consumption in the heart and improve cardiac hypoxia ability and relieve arrhythmia and other heart problems.

Though cordyceps sinensis is very beneficial, not everyone can have it. For children patients, women patients that are during pregnancy or lactation period, it is not very proper to have cordyceps sinensis.