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Bilateral polycystic kidney disease is featured by clusters of renal cysts in both kidneys. These fluid-filled cysts will experience gradual enlargement and they will oppress and replace normal kidney tissues leading to alter of renal structure and damages of renal functions.
Bilateral PKD will cause a series of symptoms and discomforts such as back pain, flank pain, high blood pressure, headache, blood in urine, kidney stone, increased urination, frequent urinary tract infections, etc.
Herbal medicines can not only help alleviate the above mentioned symptoms and discomforts, but also can repair damaged renal intrinsic cells and tissues and recover kidney functions so as to slow down its progression into renal failure and prolong patients’ life expectancy.
Here are some herbs that can benefit PKD and protect kidney functions.
Hydrangea and uva ursi can help cleanse urinary tract and are very effective on preventing and treating urinary tract infections.
Buchu tea and barberry tea can prevent kidney inflammations, rectify immune disorder and improve immunity.
Celery, parsley, watermelon seed tea are natural diuretics that can help excrete more metabolic wastes, reduce uric acid level.
The above mentioned are just a few of the herbal medicines. Besides, marshmallow, goldenrod, cranberry, juniper berry, stinging nettle, dandelion and red clover are all good for PKD patients as well as other kidney diseases.
We can see that many of the herbal medicines are commonly seen foods, so we can see that this remedy is natural and safe compared with prescribed western medicines.
Daily diet is also very important especially low-protein and low-sodium foods. Proper daily intake of salt is 1200mg which equals to that of 1/8 teaspoon. It can help control high blood pressure and slow down PKD progression.
What is more important, patients need not to suffer from pains and additional traumas from surgeries, neither will they worry about the relapse and re-filling of the cysts.
