Medical Treatments For CKD

In western countries, it is very common that treating CKD uses medicines, dialysis and kidney transplant. However, all of them have side effect to patients. Now, except these western therapies, traditional Chinese medicine therapy is also one of the medical treatments for CKD.
Traditional Chinese medicine therapy includes cycle therapy, hot compress therapy, foot bath therapy, full bath therapy, enema therapy, Oral Chinese Medicine Therapy, moxibustion therapy. Each of them has its own advantage and all of the medicines are from the nature. The aim of traditional Chinese medicine therapy is to break through difficulties in treating CKD and get some new effect. Next, let us explain one of the therapies-foot bath therapy.
Foot bath therapy means that the patients with CKD just need to have a foot bath in a tub filled with Chinese medicine. Because foot has many acupoints, the active ingredients of medicine can act on some acupoints of kidney channel, which can recover primordial qi of kidney channel by eliminating the toxic substances from kidney meridian and making the healthy qi get in kidney constantly. The medicine ingredients mainly can warm meridians and expel cold as well as make the blood smooth. If you have other symptoms, you need to add some other Chinese medicines. For example, if you feel hot, you can use some medicines to clear heat and cool blood; if you often lose sleep, you can use some Chinese medicines to relieve uneasiness of mind and calm the nerves.
In general, two thousand milliliters of the liquid medicine is proper, and the temperature of it is no more than forty degrees. The lasting time of foot bath is forty minutes. It is more effective to use a foot tub with massage or massage acupuncture points through yourself.
The short-term effects of it include that pain relieves, sleep improves, appetite increases, the body sweats more, hands and feet become warm, the edema reduces, the foot skin becomes red and fine, itching gets relief and so on.
But there are three announcements.
1. The patients need to pay attention to the temperature of liquid medicine in order to avoid scald.
2. The pregnancy is contraindicated.
3. This patients with allergic skin and sensitive physique is contraindicated.
Through the above explanation, you must think foot bath therapy is convenient. Yes, it also gets effective treatment through clinical practice. Other traditional Chinese medicine therapies are safe and effective too.
Now, you should understand medical treatments for CKD better. If you are interested in traditional Chinese medicine therapies, you can get free help from online doctors or contact us by leaving message below.