Question

Where should I seek treatment for kidney symptoms? These symptoms recur, and I have undergone previous examinations, hoping for the doctor’s assistance.

Answer

Patients with kidney syndrome may develop complications if they catch a cold, affecting treatment and recovery time. The treatment principles include traditional Chinese medicine such as reinforcing the body’s resistance and expelling pathogenic factors, warming the middle-jiao and dispelling cold, invigorating the spleen and lung, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Additionally, invigorate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis (TCM) (activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis) and tonifying the kidneys are used to restore renal microvasculature, achieving recovery of kidney function and the immune system. In daily life, proper physical exercise should be practiced, with a diet mainly consisting of warm foods such as black fungus, yam, lotus root, black soybean sprouts, black soybeans, sesame seeds, pork kidneys, chicken kidneys, beef and mutton, braised chicken with white fungus, spareribs, tofu, etc., low in protein. It is advisable to avoid cold and cool foods as well as pickled products.