Research Thinking of Colon Therapy in the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease with Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on the Theory of Gut-kidney Axis
10.11842/wst.2013.05.030
- VernacularTitle:结合肠肾轴理论探讨中医药从结肠治疗慢性肾脏病的研究思路
- Author:
Chuan ZOU
;
Yuchi WU
;
Lihong YANG
;
Zhaoyu LU
;
Guobin SU
;
Yuqun ZENG
;
Xuewen LUO
;
Xusheng LIU
;
Chunlin HUANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Theory of gut-kidney axis;
traditional Chinese medicine;
colon therapy;
chronic kidney disease ( CKD );
research thinking
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2013;(5):947-951
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming a global social problem. It is important to slow down the progression of CKD for economic and social concerns. In recent years, it has been found that colon is one of the vital organs which produce uremic toxins. And enterogenous uremic toxins are closely related to the prognosis of CKD. Theory of gut-kidney axis for the slowdown of CKD progression was raised by foreign scholars and became the research hot spot. Colon therapy with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been widely used in clinical practice and is believed to slow down the progression of CKD by numerous clinical reports. However, low re-search quality and ambiguous results limited its further application. Under the guidance of senior TCM Professor Huang Chunlin, who emphasized the method of draining turbidity through bowels in the management of CKD, from the Nephrology Center, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, as well as the modern theory of gut-kidney axis, we had carried out a series of exploratory researches which will provide data and methodology support for further confirmatory studies and improve its effectiveness.
