Professor Zhang Yu in treating chronic kidney disease with ten methods of activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis
XUE Shunxuan1 ZHANG Yu2
1.School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China;
2.Department of Nephrology, Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100091, China
Abstract:Professor Zhang Yu believes that chronic kidney disease has a long course and it is easy to produce blood stasis when the disease enters the collaterals. Modern studies have also confirmed that the pathological changes of kidney such as hypercoagulable state of blood in the kidney and the thrombosis and ischemia it causes, as well as mesangial cell proliferation following tissue damage and crescents formation are all related to blood stasis in traditional Chinese medicine. Based on years of clinical experience, Professor Zhang summarizes ten methods of activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis, including invigorating qi and activating blood method, dispelling wind and activating blood method, disinhibit water and activating blood method, kidney-tonifying and activating blood method, purgativing and activating blood method, detoxifying and activating blood method, supplementing lung and activating blood method, invigorating spleen and activating blood method, cooling blood and activating blood method, eliminating accumulation and activating blood method, which has achieved good curative effect.