Chinese Herbal Remedies for Lowering Proteinuria

Proteinuria is a Western medical concept, in Chinese medicine belongs to the category of “edema”, according to the identification of the symptoms can be taken Yue maidservant Jiajutsu Tang Plus Reduction, Ephedra and Lianjiao Red Bean Soup with five flavors disinfectant drink Plus Reduction, and so on. Follow the doctor’s instructions for medication. 1. Wind-water (sudden edema of the head, face and limbs): swelling of the eyelids, followed by swelling of the limbs and the whole body, often accompanied by bad wind and fever. It can be treated with the addition of Yue maidservant plus artichoke soup. 2. Dampness-poison infiltration syndrome: swelling of the eyelids, head and face, extending to the whole body, body sores, or even ulceration, with a red tongue, thin yellow moss, and a floating or slippery pulse. May take ephedra and forsythia and red bean soup combined with five flavors disinfectant drink plus subtractions. 3. Water-dampness impregnation: edema of the whole body, no fingers when pressed, short urine, white and greasy coating, slow pulse, slow onset. It can be reduced by adding Wu Pi Drink and Stomach Ling Tang. 4. Dampness-heat congestion (excessive dampness-heat evil, stagnation in the body): swelling all over the body, chest and epigastric congestion, dry and knotty stools, red tongue, yellowish greasy moss, sunken or moist pulse. It can be taken with the addition or subtraction of the sparing chiseling drink. 5. Spleen-Yang deficiency: oedema for a long time, worse below the waist, not easy to recover by pressing the depression, tiredness of the limbs, short urine, pale tongue, white greasy moss or white slippery, slow or weak pulse. Add or subtract the formula of “Solid Spleen Drink”. 6. Kidney Yang Weakening and Weakness Certificate: recurrent edema, face and body swelling, swelling below the waist, pressing the depression, cold pain and soreness in the waist, pale and fat tongue, white moss, and weak or sluggish pulse. Jisheng Kidney Qi Pill and Zhenwu Tang can be added and reduced. 7. Stagnant water and stagnant water: oedema that does not subside for a long time, with swelling of varying degrees of severity, stabbing pain in the waist, or accompanied by hematuria, with purplish tongue, white moss, and a fine, astringent pulse. It can be treated with Taohong Si Wu Tang combined with Wu Ling San plus subtractions.