Can Chinese Medicine Be Used to Treat Lupus Nephritis?

Can Chinese Medicine Be Used to Treat Lupus Nephritis? More and more Lupus Nephritis patients begin to be tired of endless medication of western medicine to control their disease due to the side effects of western medicines, such as fat, bone problem, acne, gastrointestinal discomforts, etc. What’s more, frequently appeared proteinuria or other related symptoms is also a big problem. Therefore, Chinese Medicine treatment which is a kind of natural treatment starts to get more attention from Lupus Nephritis. However, how about the answer to this question? Is it effective in treating Lupus Nephritis?
The answer is absolutely positive. Based on its thousands years of history, Chinese Medicine plays a more important role in treating various kinds of disease, including Lupus Nephritis. Different from western medicine treatment, Chinese Medicine do not treat only the symptoms, but also the root cause of the disease. For example, proteinuria is a common symptom for Lupus Nephritis patients. Traditionally, some hormone medicines will be taken to reduce the protein by inhibiting the abnormal immune action. However, if patients stop taking medicine, abnormal immune reaction will be active again, which is also the reason of frequent relapse. Chinese Medicine also treat the symptoms during the treatment, but at the same time it also treat Lupus Nephritis from the viewpoint of wholism, which means it will try to find the root cause as well as even tiny difference between each patients, and then Chinese doctors will make the prescription for each patient.
Basically, the functions of Chinese Medicine in treating Lupus Nephritis can be explained in the following aspects: the first one is to activate blood circulation which can offer enough blood flow to kidneys, thus providing a better environment for kidneys and reliving the condition of renal ischemia and anoxia caused by damage in kidney. The second one is to anti-inflammation. Due to the damage from lupus factor, there must be inflammatory reaction in kidney, which is the main cause of kidney damage progressing further. Therefore, stopping the inflammatory reaction is a very important point to prevent further damage. The third one is to degrade and discharge the immune complex deposite in blood and kidney cells, thus the damage caused by such deposite can be relived. Besides, with more blood flow going through kidney, more oxygen and nutrition can get to kidney, which can provide a favorable environment for kidney to repair itself. After a systematic treatment, not only kidney condition, but also patients’ body condition can have a general improvement, which can increase body resistance to external factors, thus reducing the relapse.
Another point should be mentioned is that the prescription of Chinese Medicine is different to each patient even though they are having the same disease. Even according to different understanding on patients’ condition, different Chinese doctors will offer different prescriptions even to the same patient. But no matter what prescription is made, the main function or the aim is the same as this article mentioned above. I think this is just the amazing and magic point of Chinese Medicine, but this is also a big confusion to doctors in other countries.