New Zealand patients magical journey of Chinese medicine

This is our first visit to China and the first time we have received Chinese medicine treatment, but this is the only time that Chinese medicine has given us full of awe and curiosity about Chinese medicine!

I am Maggie from New Zealand and my husband is Terry. He loves life, loves food, we have enviable families. He began to experience intermittent dizziness in 2006, and we realized we had health problems. Local high blood pressure check, since then he not only need to take daily antihypertensive drugs, in the diet he is even more afraid to be the same as before. He began to control his diet, away from some of the food that is harmful to him. This is very hard, because ah love food, but no way, he can no longer enjoy these delicious.

He went to the medical examination in 2016, and the doctor told us that his kidney had a problem. He was diagnosed as "chronic kidney disease." Since then, in addition to antihypertensive drugs, he also started taking some other drugs. During this period, his blood pressure has been fluctuating between 120 ~ 180/95 ~ 110mmHg, creatinine and uric acid and other related indicators have also risen. We are very scared, because his doctor told us he needs dialysis in the future. We tried a lot of ways to control his blood pressure, his creatinine, but it did not work, he was in a very unstable condition and he started having no appetite, and he did not have an urge to eat even before he'd liked something .

Later, his family helped me understand the Chinese medicine treatment on the Internet. Perhaps this kind of therapy could help him control his illness. We have never been to China, so hesitated. We do not really like going to strange places, and we are afraid that his treatment will not work. However, he did not even want to dialysis. We came to Beijing Tongshantang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in January 2018. I heard that this is China's best hospital for the treatment of kidney disease. When we first came to the hospital, we excluded the people and things here, but later we found that the doctors and nurses were very friendly. When we encountered a problem, they would patiently help us to answer without any complaint.

Currently, he has been treated by Chinese medicine for two weeks. The results of his review yesterday showed that his creatinine, uric acid and urea nitrogen had dropped significantly, and his blood pressure was also controlled at 120-130 / 80-95mmHg. His appetite has improved significantly. Although he still has a lot of food he can not eat right now, he imagines that he can eat some food every day to coax my stomach.

We are very grateful to Beijing Tongshantang Chinese Medicine Hospital for his doctors and nurses. They not only help us to cure his illness, but they have also greatly helped in our life. Chinese are very friendly and Chinese medicine is amazing in medicine. We love China and hope more kidney disease patients can come to Beijing Tongshantang Chinese Medicine Hospital to get an early recovery!

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the several methods that help to manage stress properly

In modern society, stress exists everywhere such as our work, family and personal lives. When we face stress, we may behave or feel differently, and different response to stress causes different levels of response to our heart, brain and kidney.

When we feel stressed, we usually have the following physical responses:

1. Increase in heart rate and respiration rate

2. Increased blood pressure

3. Blood sugar level increases to provide energy

4. Muscular tension increases

5. Sweating

6. Sharpening of senses

7. Pupils of eyes dilate

8. Digestion slow down

All the above 8 conditions are harmful to our health and some of them affect our kidney directly. For instance, both high blood sugar and high blood pressure can increase renal burden directly. And long-term high burden in kidney will affect kidney function. Therefore, having a proper management to stress will promote kidney health.

The followings are the several methods that help to manage stress properly. Hope it is helpful for you:

1. Keep things in perspective: Maybe we can not success in doing this at present, but we can learn it at once.

2. Keep being optimistic: Keep being optimistic no matter what kind of situation we are in.

3. Having a full prepare before action: We feel nervous and stressed easily when the thing is out of our control our ability. Therefore, to reduce the morbidity of this condition, having a full prepare no matter what we are going to do. With judicious preparation, we will relaxed.

4. Be realistic when setting goals.

5. Learn time management: Do not crowd too many things into one day, which will increase your stress unconsciously.

Since high stress not only affect our kidney, but also many our other internal organs, so a proper management of stress will benefit us from different aspects.

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People with kidney patients often eat hormones, do you know its specific role

Although the hormone is not the most common drug in patients with kidney disease, but it is definitely the most famous kidney disease commonly used drugs. Do you know the true role of hormones do?

 Hormones used in the treatment of nephropathy are glucocorticoids, which are actually substances secreted by the kidneys themselves. When the kidneys are impaired, hormones are not secreted enough to be supplemented with oral hormones.
What is the role of hormones?
Mainly inhibit the inflammatory response, the so-called inflammatory response, in fact, human immune cells on the "foreign body" phagocytosis process. These "foreign bodies" mainly include bacteria, viruses, and substances produced by the body's own metabolism.
What are the benefits of inhibiting the inflammatory response?
Because the inflammatory response produces a large number of immune complexes, which are formed after immune cells engulf "foreign bodies," these immune complexes deposit on the kidneys and cause damage to the kidney cells.

The reason why hormones can reduce urinary protein, because most of the urinary protein production is due to inflammation.
Please note that although hormones can suppress the inflammatory response, the disappearance of urinary protein is the credit for the remaining nephrons.
That is, if the remaining nephrons are able to provide adequate support, the filtration of the kidneys is restored after the inflammatory response is suppressed.
If the remaining nephron units are deficient, urinary protein is not eliminated even if the inflammatory response is suppressed.

Another case, if it is caused by hypertension or diabetes urinary protein, hormones are also difficult to play a role.
In short, the main role of hormones is to suppress the inflammatory response, urinary protein can be eliminated, depending on the activity of the remaining nephrons.

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Membranous nephropathy: why urinary protein is difficult to eliminate

The doctor will not tell you these questions:
1, membranous nephropathy is how to produce?
2, why membranous nephropathy is difficult to treat?
3, the current treatment of membranous nephropathy What is the new method?
Why is membranous nephropathy?
The reason is called the name because of the pathological type of glomerular capillary epithelial side of the visible large number of immune complex deposition, glomerular basement membrane thickening as the main pathological features.
Membranous nephropathy is divided into idiopathic and secondary two, secondary membranous nephropathy is mainly caused by lupus erythematosus, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis B virus, cancer.

For idiopathic membranous nephropathy, recent studies have found that anti-phospholipase A2 receptor antibody (PLA2R). The PLA2R antibody binds to the corresponding antigen on the podocyte to form an in situ immune complex, which in turn activates the complement by the alternative pathway, forming a C5b-9 membrane attack complex that damages podocytes, causing thickening of the basement membrane and destroying glomerular filtration Barrier, resulting in proteinuria.

Therefore, membranous nephropathy is a classic immune nephropathy.

Why membranous nephropathy refractory?
Clinically, according to the pathological changes under electron microscopy, membranous nephropathy is divided into four phases:
Phase I: few deposition of immune complexes, the basement membrane structure is complete.
At this point the patient has only a small amount of urine protein, is the best time to treat, but without the habit of regular physical exams, it is likely to miss.
Stage II: Immune complex deposition gradually increased, basement membrane began to proliferate thickening, and glomerular epithelial cells nail-like changes, podocyte damage began to be serious.
Urinary protein gradually increased at this time, but not yet reached a large number of urinary protein (greater than 3.5g / 24h), generally does not appear nephrotic syndrome, is still the best time to treat.
Three: irregular thickening of the basement membrane, there is irregular stratification, podocyte damage is serious, and the phenomenon of foot process fusion.
At this point urinary protein has reached 3.5g / 24h or more, began to appear nephrotic syndrome characteristics, treatment began to become difficult, mainly due to the hormone effect decreased, it is because of foot process fusion barrier damage.
Four: extremely thick basement membrane, mesangial proliferation, glomerular sclerosis.
Instead, urinary protein began to decline, but this does not mean that the condition has improved, but because of renal function began to decline. When endogenous creatinine clearance rate down to a certain stage, serum creatinine began to rise, membranous nephropathy also developed to the stage of chronic renal failure.

Progress in the treatment of membranous nephropathy
Traditional means of treatment of membranous nephropathy is sufficient hormone elimination of urinary protein, while supplementing plasma proteins and control complications such as hypertension.
But here's a problem: the culprit in glomerular epithelial damage - immune complexes - has not been cleaned up.
The reason why the first and second phases of membranous nephropathy is easier to treat is because less immune complexes are deposited. As long as the inflammatory response is controlled by hormones, the compensatory nature of the kidney itself can ensure the normal needs of the human body.
However, this does not mean that the immune complexes have been cleared, so although the urinary protein has temporarily disappeared, the damage to the kidneys continues.
The third phase, with the basement membrane thickening and podocyte damage more and more serious, both the mechanical barrier and the charge barrier have been severely damaged, although the hormone can inhibit protein leakage, but when the hormone is reduced to a certain extent Usually reduced to about 3), it is easy to relapse.
Therefore, membranous nephropathy early clearance of immune complexes is very important.
Clean immune complexes, can use the traditional Chinese medicine "Tong Fu Huayu" treatment concept, the use of rubbed, hot compress, medicated bath directly to the lesion administration, one can protect the damaged nephron, and secondly to clean up the deposition Immune complex.
Therefore, in the early stage of membranous nephropathy (phase I and phase II), adding Chinese medicine treatment on the basis of western medicine hormone therapy can greatly delay the progression of the disease, and may even limit the condition for a long time to be within the second phase.
By the third and fourth stages, although Chinese medicine can not fully restore the fused foot process and impaired podocytes, it can enhance the activity of the remaining nephrons and delay the rate of renal failure by improving microcirculation.

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What fruit can people with diabetes eat

With the improvement of people's quality of life and the deterioration of the environment, health problems are frequently appearing in people's lives. Diabetes can be seen everywhere. So, diabetes can eat what fruit? As diabetes diet needs to be very exquisite, the patient's most basic diet principle is based on the patient's activity, weight, and blood sugar to estimate the total heat needed for a day, scientific and reasonable To develop a daily diet plan.

Diabetes can eat what fruit

Diabetic people can eat fruits: pomelo, cherries, apples, lychees, oranges, pears, kiwi, strawberries, pomegranates.

1, pomelo: 
Cold, sweet, sour, with the next Phlegm Phlegm, stomach digestion, edema and pain, Li Yan anti-inflammatory effect. Some people think grapefruit fresh juice, contains insulin-like ingredients, can lower blood sugar, protect the cardiovascular.

2, cherry:

Warm, sweet, with Qi tonic, spleen and stomach dysfunction, sweating, expelling wind rash, detoxification, skin beauty and other effects. Because it contains pectin, can increase the amount of insulin secretion, blood sugar can be decreased.

3, apple:

Sexual cool, sweet, and some species slightly acid, with nourishing Qi, fluid cough, stomach and spleen, Chufan, Jieshu, hangover and other effects. Due to the slow and uniform absorption of sugar in apple, which can lower blood sugar, especially postprandial blood sugar, have a better effect on diabetes. The chromium contained in the apple peel is the "nemesis" of diabetes, which can increase the sensitivity of diabetic patients to insulin and is an important blood glucose regulator. However, malic acid can stabilize blood sugar. Therefore, patients with diabetes suitable for eating apples; the same time, apple is rich in potassium, blood pressure and cardiovascular protection, can prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications.

4, lychee:

Sexual warm, sweet, sour, with qi and spleen, nourishing the liver and yi, thirst quencher, puzzle, Tong Shen, detoxification, diarrhea and other effects, can be moderate consumption.

5, oranges:

Fruit pulp cool, Pickle, with Sheng Jin heat, Phlegm saliva, and appetizers, hangover thirst and other effects, you can eat.

6, pear:

Cold, sweet, slightly acidic, with fluid, lungs, heat, cool heart, Phlegm, fire, heat cough, detoxification and other effects, but less sugar, people with diabetes can eat.

7, Kiwi:

Sugar and fat content is low, but also high-fiber foods, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications have a good effect. Kiwi rich in sugar alcohols inositol can regulate glucose metabolism, thereby reducing blood sugar.

8, strawberry:

Low in calories, and rich in vitamin C and trace elements, consumption of blood sugar will rise slowly, which can reduce the burden of insulin and stabilize blood sugar.

9, pomegranate

Sweet, sour, warm, with insecticidal, astringent, astringent intestinal, dysentery and other effects. Nutritious pomegranate fruit, vitamin C content than apples, pears to be one or two times higher.

Diabetes to people more harmful. It is not just simple treatment, usually also need to pay attention to the patient's diet. To understand what diabetes can eat fruit, what fruit is good for diabetes in order to develop scientific and rational diet plan for each day of diabetes for better treatment and prevention.

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