At present, there are five types of western medicine is applied to control the blood pressure. There is nothing wrong with this treatment. The problem is that after patients have kidney disease caused by high blood pressure, when the kidney problem advances to certain extent, in return, the kidney disease further affects high blood pressure due to Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system and retention of water and sodium. So, under this circumstances, only increasing the dose of western medicine is no more the best option. Repairing the damaged kidney, help the kidney play its role in regulating blood pressure is also necessary. But till now, there isn’t very effective western medicine which focuses on repairing the damaged kidney functional cells. However, traditional Chinese medicine plays important role in this respect. Besides, it can also activate the excretion pathway of NO, PGI2, etc. which can inhibit he contraction effect of Angiotensin II and endothelin, duly bring down blood pressure. At the same time, it helps recovery of damaged kidney functional cells.
So, at this point, it is better to combine both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine together to treat hypertensive nephropathy and control high blood pressure. And if you have better treatment than this, we also welcome you to tell us by sending email to helenjunjun08@gmail.com, so that we can help more patients to relieve their sufferings.
