Kidney Disease And Ginseng

Ginseng is a tonic herb that has been long been used in Traditional Chinese Medicines to help treat a variety of illness conditions and help strengthen the patient’s physical health.

Ginseng has been traditionally used to treat kidney disease and it has many health benefits to the patients such as regulating lipid metabolism, lowering high blood glucose and enhancing the patient’s immunity. After taking ginseng, many symptoms of kidney disease can be eased such as fatigue, anemia, high blood pressure, etc.

Kidney disease patients often have the symptoms of proteinuria and hypercholesteremia which can increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and threaten the patient’s life. Ginseng can promote the metabolism of lipids and lower blood cholesterol levels and triglyceride so as to help prevent and treat hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and thrombosis.

If kidney disease patients also suffer from diabetes, ginseng is a good choice because it is a natural remedy for high blood glucose. What is good is that ginseng has dual-direction regulation of blood sugar. It can not only lower high blood sugar, but also can prevent too low blood sugar due to over use of insulin or other antidiabetics.

Ginseng can also help patients with kidney stones. Ginseng is an excellent tonic herb and it can help promote metabolism of the body and help promote the eliminate of toxins and wastes from the body so as to much lower the chance of stone formation in the kidneys and other parts. Ginseng has also been found to help lower high uric acid so as to help prevent kidney stones.

Ginseng can also help regulate immune disorders and enhance the body’s immune functions so as to make kidney disease patients less susceptible to various infections and viruses which are often the inducement of kidney disease relapses. For some auto-immune kidney diseases, ginseng can help promote their immunity, improve disease-resistance ability and protect their cardiovascular and central nervous systems.