Chinese Medicine: A Natural Remedy for Polycystic Kidney Disease

Chinese medicine, compared with surgery, is a natural remedy for Polycystic Kidney Disease which can be shortly called PKD. Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kidney disorder with a cluster of cysts that filled with yellow fluids. These cysts enlarge over time and oppress surrounding renal tissues, which disable kidneys to function well. Kidney function declines day by day and when it decreases to a certain degree, symptoms appear. Thereby, protecting kidneys from being damaged by these cysts should be the ultimate purpose for PKD patients to live a better life.

Cysts damage kidney tissues directly, so cutting these cysts off will be helpful. However, as kidney is full of cysts, it is impossible to cut off all the cysts. Under such a circumstance, the next best thing is to shrink cysts and prevent them from oppressing renal tissues. Many methods like surgery and Chinese medicines has been used to lessen cysts, but some of them only focus on big cysts and do nothing with small cysts. Under such a condition, once these big cysts are removed or shrunk, small cysts enlarge quickly. Therefore, in the long run, surgery and other similar methods are not the permanent treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients.

Chinese medicine, different from surgery, shows better treatment effects, as it treats all the cysts together. Cysts in PKD enlarge with the increase of fluids inside the cyst, so when cystic fluids flow out of the cyst, cyst becomes smaller.

Chinese medicine has function to increase the permeability of cystic wall and promote blood circulation, which enable fluids inside the cyst to ooze. In this way, not only the big cysts, but also the small cysts can be shrunk effectively.

Chinese medicines, although show great effective treatment effects in treating Polycystic Kidney Disease, work relatively slow in comparison to surgery. So PKD sufferer should be patient while receiving this treatment.