Patient: description of the condition (onset time, main symptoms, hospital, etc.): 1-3 years old on the performance of various joint pain, taste, urinate more, but also often colds, a little older found that often weakness, to the hospital check that is a lack of potassium, make up a little potassium he was good, but to the age of 14-15 years old on the frequent weakness, in the big hospital a check the results is renal tubular acidosis Now take the medicine is citrate combination plus Ferulic acid piperazine tablets and Jinshui Bao eat together, the effect is not bad, regularly go to the hospital to review the urine and electrolytes, but are normal, but the doctor said to be a lifetime of medication May I ask if there is no cure for it, he is a boy is now 19 years old, the future will affect his life? Can you take Chinese medicine, thank you! Shen Tao, Department of Internal Medicine, Sichuan Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: For the time being, there should be no cure for primary; secondary is relatively good according to the condition. If the patient is currently asymptomatic all kinds of normal test results can be temporarily stopped, the condition has repeated when you can consider traditional Chinese medicine treatment.