Natural Medicines For Minimal Change Disease

Minimal change disease is the most common type of nephrotic syndrome in children. It usually occurs to children that are younger than 8 and it is more common among boys than girls.

Conventional treatment for minimal change disease is prednisone, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine and other immunosuppressant. However we all know that long term intake of hormones and immune inhibitors will cause many side effects and complications which are especially adverse to children patients.

Compared with prednisone and other hormone medicines, Traditional Chinese Medicines are more natural for minimal change disease. TCM has thousands of history in China to be used to treat various chronic diseases and ailments and it has been proved by clinical experience to be very effective and safe.

Recently there is an innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It takes advantage of osmosis technique to help greatly promote the efficacy of Chinese medicine and much shorten the treatment course.

Chinese medicines will be micronized into fine powder and put into medicated bags. These medicated bags will be soaked into prepared solution before the treatment. During the treatment, patients only need to lie on their back with 2 medicated bags under their back right in the renal areas. The other side of medicated bags is connected with the osmosis machine which can send out pulse to promote active ingredients in the medicines to penetrate through meridians and acupoints on the skin and enter into kidney lesions. Both the effectiveness and efficacy of the medicines are greatly improved than traditionally oral-taken medicines.

After Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, swelling can be greatly relieved and urine output will increase to help remove excessive fluid retention.

Active ingredients in the medicines have anti-coagulation and anti-inflammation properties so as to help relieve thromboembolism and lower the risk of infection which is one major inducement of illness relapse of minimal change disease.

It can promote blood circulation and increase blood flow in the kidneys so as to provide adequate blood, oxygen and nutritions for repairing damaged renal tissues.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an external application and it causes almost no side effects. It is very comfortable and safe, therefore it is very suitable for children patients.