Application of kidney-nourishing herbal medicine for treating hypertension.
- Author:
Xiao-Chen YANG
;
Xing-Jiang XIONG
;
Jie WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Animals;
Chemistry, Pharmaceutical;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
chemistry;
pharmacology;
therapeutic use;
Humans;
Hypertension;
drug therapy;
physiopathology;
Kidney;
drug effects;
physiology
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2013;38(23):4015-4019
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Recent years, the pathogenesis of hypertension in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been changed. Kidney-deficiency has become the key of modern pathogenesis, and the new problem of treating hypertension. It has become the new strategy for treating hypertension with kidney-nourishing herbal medicine. This article reviewed the clinical and experimental researches of kidney-nourishing herbal medicine, including single herb, herbal formulae and traditional Chinese patent medicine, in order to strengthen the evidence of kidney-nourishing herbal medicine for treating hypertension.
