Renal Disease and Chinese Medicine
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Written by: Travis Spire-Sweet, L.Ac. The United States, along with other developed nations, is succumbing to a drastic increase in renal failure. The rate in increase of people reaching endstage renal disease, (ESRD) glomerular filtration rate less than 20, is not proportionate to quality of care or treatment of the actual disease. To reemphasize, there is no treatment for the actual disease, only management of symptoms with dialysis, transplant, or angiotensin converting enzyme (ACEi) therapy. ACEi, being the main form of preventative medicine, does not stop the progression of renal disease. “Current treatments are, in general, poorly effective and new therapeutic strategies or adjunct therapies that enhance the efficacy of current pharmaceutical agents are needed”1. This exponential growth will continue as long as there is a rise in diabetes and hypertension, the leading contributors to ESRD.
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