Liuwei Dihuang for treating kidney disease

You must have often heard of Liuwei Dihuang Wan in advertisements, especially one brand of Liuwei Dihuang Wan is particularly famous. Liuwei Dihuang Wan is mainly made of six Chinese medicinal materials that can treat kidney deficiency, and has a good therapeutic effect on kidney deficiency diseases. However, many people suffer from kidney disease and confuse kidney disease with kidney deficiency, so many people have doubts about whether Liuwei Dihuang can treat kidney disease?

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We ordinary people cannot tell the difference between kidney deficiency and kidney disease.

Failure to distinguish between kidney deficiency and kidney disease is the biggest problem leading to the widespread use of kidney tonic drugs.

In fact, however, kidney deficiency and kidney disease are two completely different things.

A person can casually say that he has kidney deficiency, because Chinese medicine can diagnose him as having "kidney deficiency" simply based on various discomfort symptoms and pulse diagnosis.

But kidney disease is not so easy to tell. It requires a series of tests and confirmed abnormalities in various kidney test indicators before it can be diagnosed as kidney disease.

Do you see? There is a fundamental difference between the two!

Kidney deficiency may be just a sub-health condition. It does not matter whether there is any abnormality in the examination. Chinese medicine can make a diagnosis through observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation. However, kidney disease cannot be diagnosed based on a few symptoms alone. It must be examined and there must be actual abnormalities in the laboratory indicators to be diagnosed.

Because of lack of understanding, people think that kidney deficiency is kidney disease, and kidney disease is kidney deficiency. They equate the two concepts, so they think kidney tonic drugs can cure kidney disease! In fact, this is a ridiculous substitution of concepts.

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It doesn't matter if you can't tell the difference. Please don't make your own decisions.

In fact, it is not difficult for ordinary people like us to distinguish the difference between kidney deficiency and kidney disease. As long as we do not make decisions on our own when we are confused about the situation, we should know to consult a professional doctor if we have any physical problems.

A friend of mine has high blood pressure. Recently, he has been suffering from frequent urination at night, dizziness and tinnitus. His relatives insisted that this was caused by kidney deficiency, so they bought him a bunch of kidney-tonifying medicines including Liuwei Dihuang Pills.

Good intentions are good, but good intentions may lead to bad results. When you don't understand something, you must not give orders blindly or act on your own.

Young people with a history of high blood pressure, dizziness, tinnitus, and frequent urination at night should be alert to whether it is because of uncontrolled blood pressure and hypertensive kidney disease. At this time, no tests have been done and the situation has not been clarified. It is absolutely not okay to take a lot of kidney tonic drugs! Instead, you should go to the hospital to check the kidney-related indicators to see if there are any abnormalities. Rather than easily diagnose "kidney deficiency" and take random supplements.

There are so many examples like this! I believe many of our kidney patients have a deep understanding of this. At the beginning, because they did not understand, even if some early symptoms of kidney disease appeared, they were regarded as kidney deficiency. There was no reliable doctor around to tell them to go to the hospital for examination. They took a lot of tonic medicines and delayed treatment.

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Please stop taking Liuwei Dihuang Pills to tonify your kidneys

Even if you see a Chinese doctor, a good Chinese doctor will not give you tonic medicine casually. Not to mention that in Chinese medicine, the kidney is the basis of innate vitality, and it is very difficult to replenish the innate vitality through medicine. Even if you want to replenish the kidney, you will combine symptoms and constitution to make a diagnosis and use medicine. Whether to replenish or not and how to replenish are all very particular. If you don't understand that "all medicines are three-point poison", blindly taking Chinese medicine to replenish will not only be useless, but may also cause various drug side effects.

In 2013, among the 530,000 cases of adverse reactions in the National Drug Adverse Reaction Monitoring Network, Liuwei Dihuang Pills was one of the top five products. This is entirely because too many people do not make any differentiation of symptoms and just keep taking supplements, always thinking that supplements are good, but this leads to all kinds of problems.

The ingredients of Liuwei Dihuang Wan are cooked rehmannia root, cornus officinalis, yam, zexie, moutan bark, and tuckahoe. The renal toxicity of zexie has been reported in many studies. In animal experiments, zexie can cause turbid swelling and hyaline degeneration in the liver of mice, and damage the renal tubules and interstitium.

The instructions have already stated the hazards of long-term use on humans - it is still unclear.

Therefore, if a patient has kidney disease, taking supplements without a clear diagnosis may cause problems. This is because the kidneys of patients with kidney disease are more susceptible to drug damage than those of ordinary people. Not only will taking these supplements delay proper treatment, but it is also unclear whether the drugs themselves will damage the kidneys if taken for a long time.

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Finally, the most important thing

The incidence of kidney disease is quite high now, but few people know they are sick. According to a national survey of nephrologists, 1/4 of them already have uremia when they first visit the doctor. The early symptoms of kidney disease are not obvious and are often ignored.

To be on the safe side, do not easily attribute your discomfort to kidney deficiency. Go to a regular hospital for a checkup. If urine and kidney function tests show no problems, you can rest assured. If there are problems, find out early and treat them early so that the effect will be better.