Rhubarb-A Good Medicine for Treating Renal Failure

When people get sick, they often look for some exotic herbs as a panacea for treating diseases, such as ginseng and ganoderma lucidum, and even hope for nutritional products, such as bird's nest, honey and donkey-hide gelatin.

In fact, in the orthodox classics of traditional Chinese medicine, they are all very common medicinal materials or foods, and modern scientific research has not found them to be really effective. The medicinal materials that are really effective for kidney disease are always unknown.

There is a saying that rhubarb saves lives in vain, and ginseng kills people without fault. Killing is a strong statement, but it also reflects what is really useful medicine. For example, rhubarb, modern medicine has enough evidence to prove that it is effective in treating kidney disease.

Therapeutic effect of rhubarb on renal failure;

1. Regulate nitrogen metabolism

Traditionally, rhubarb only treats renal failure, because it has a cathartic effect and can eliminate body fluids, potassium, sodium and nitrogen-containing substances to reduce creatinine and urea nitrogen.

In recent years, it has been found that rhubarb actually has a wider and deeper function. Rhubarb tannin can reduce blood urea nitrogen, inhibit the synthesis of urea in liver and kidney, reduce blood ammonia and enhance the activity of glutamine synthetase, thus promoting the process of nitrogen reuse in the body. It can also change the proportion of amino acids and correct hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia.

2. Repair nephron

Rhubarb can play a certain role in both patients with normal renal function and patients with decreased renal function.

Patients with chronic nephritis with normal renal function are mainly damaged glomeruli, and some mesangial cells are damaged, which leads to the aggravation of nephropathy. Rhubarb can inhibit glomerular mesangial cells, thus protecting glomerulus.

In patients with renal failure, renal function will gradually decline. Rhubarb can reduce oxygen consumption and gluconeogenesis, alleviate the hypermetabolic abnormality of residual kidney, and thus alleviate the progress of chronic renal failure.

3. Regulate lipid metabolism

Patients with renal failure often have dyslipidemia and dyslipidemia. Rhubarb can reduce triglyceride and increase serum high density lipoprotein, thus improving lipid metabolism and delaying the progress of renal failure.

In addition, rhubarb also has anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects.

Although the effect of rhubarb is clear, patients with renal failure are complicated and still cannot use rhubarb alone. It needs to be compatible with other medicinal materials to master the dosage, and Chinese and western medicine are also essential for the treatment of renal failure.