Some herbs for kidney
can enhance kidney energy and restore its functions.
Kidney is an
important organ to filter blood and expel waste substances through urine. This
pair of fist sized organ is located at the back of stomach. Each kidney
contains approximately 1 million cells. Those kidney cells absorb back
nutrients from the blood and leave some water together with waste materials out
as urine.
In western medical
theory, herbs for kidney will strengthen kidney functions to improve:
Acute kidney infection
(inflammation)
Chronic kidney infection
Last stage kidney infection
Herbs for kidney also
improve diseases associated with the weakening of this vital organ such as:
High uric acid (Gout)
Protein in urine
Weak immune system
However, Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM) regards kidney as having more important functions.
According to TCM, kidney stores 3 kinds of energy:
Prenatal energy
Postnatal energy
Energy of the five main organs
(heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney)
Kidney is regarded as
the foundation of “yin” (negative) and “yang” (positive) energy for the 5 main
organs. It supports and affects the functions of:
Bone
Teeth
Ear
Hair
Brain
Waist (back)
With these TCM theories
on kidney functions, let’s see what herbs for kidney can help to improve common
health problems.
It enhances prenatal
energy stored in kidney. Therefore, it improves:
Slow or retarded child growth (e.g.:
small sized and skinny children)
Children with no appetite
Children with bedwetting problem
By enhancing kidney’s
postnatal energy, these herbs improve health conditions caused by aging
especially during menopause stage of men and women.
Kidney stores energy
for the 5 organs. It acts as the “yin yang” foundation for those organs.
Therefore, herbs that strengthen kidney can improve diseases associated with
the 5 organs especially:
Asthma (lung)
Hardening of liver
Liver cancer
Lastly, herbs for
kidney can improve health conditions such as:
Bone spur and osteoporosis
Teeth problems
Hearing problems
Hair loss
Brain disease (e.g.: stroke,
Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease)
Backache
Weak leg
Afraid of cold
Frequent urination
Kidney cells that have
died cannot be revived. Herbs can only strengthen the functions of remaining
kidney cells, preventing further damage. That is why it is impossible to treat
a patient undergoing dialysis because their kidney has seriously contracted.
However, there is still
some hope for patient that is near to having dialysis. These are usually
patients with the following indicators in their medical report:
High Creatinine in blood
High Urea in blood
Protein existence in urine (urine
with bubbles that won't disperse)
Please
aware that medical report is only an indicator for reference. If medical report
shows that your kidney function is okay, it doesn’t really mean it.
If both your kidney has
contracted to half (half of the cells died), your report still shows a normal
kidney function. The half kidney can still handle the capacity to filter all
your blood. That’s why some people donate one kidney out and still alive.
But when your kidneys
are left with around 20% to 30% of the original cells, your medical report
starts to show abnormal indicators. Usually, it is too late and you will need
to undergo a torturing treatment – dialysis.
You must suspect you
have weaker kidney when you experience the following symptoms:
Increase in blood pressure
Difficulty in urinating
Frequent urinating even when
sleeping
Pain at waist (back)
Urine with too much bubble
Weak leg
Kidney diseases are
associated with the following factors:
Eat
too much salty food (burden to kidney, heart and blood vessel)
Eat too much
meat and seafood
Drink less water
Long term medication of
antibiotics, pain killers, steroids, etc.(toxics)
High blood pressure (damage
kidney blood vessels)
Diabetes
Always angry and stressful
SLE – lupus (auto immune
reaction)
Often untreated sore throat
(inflammation)
Often refrain from urinating
Prostate enlargement in men
Once you know the
causes, you must know how to prevent it. Kidney disease is a very torturing
disease. For patients with high blood pressure and diabetes, they can go
anywhere they like provided they take medications on time.
But for patients
undergoing dialysis, they cannot go anywhere they like. They need to go for
dialysis 3 to 4 times per week. One session usually lasts for 4 hours. They
cannot even drink too much water.
So, please take care of
your kidneys.
Besides herbs for
kidney, there are some foods that can improve kidney energy such as black bean
and black sesame. Ganoderma Lucidum herbs for kidney certainly help to improve
its functions too. Ganoderma Lucidum's Nucleic Acid strengthens kidney to
neutralize toxic, reduces protein in urine and breaks down cholesterol.
However, according to ancient Chinese medical classics, the most potent
herbs for kidney is Cordyceps Sinensis (Dong Chong Xia Cao). It’s a type of
precious fungus grown in China
For better effects, take Ganoderma Lucidum and Cordyceps Sinensis
together as they support each other to improve kidney function.
