What is the clinical efficacy of using Cordyceps sinensis to treat chronic kidney disease?
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) refers to various causes of chronic damage to kidney structure or function, including normal or abnormal glomerular filtration rate, abnormal blood or urine composition, abnormal imaging examination, or causes leading to GFR recovery lasting for more than 3 months.
A pollution survey conducted in 13 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across the country in 2012 showed that the CKD corruption rate in the paper reached 10.8%, but the disease incidence rate was about 12.5%. The main treatment for CKD is to update the treatment foundation, control diet, treat symptoms accordingly, and delay the progression of the disease. In the terminal stage, only renal replacement therapy can be performed, such as hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, kidney transplantation, etc.
The commonly used clinical methods currently include Western medicine treatment, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, and the combination of Chinese and Western medicine. Cordyceps sinensis, also known as Cordyceps sinensis (CS), has a sweet and warm taste and is beneficial to the kidneys and lungs. It has the effects of tonifying kidney yang, nourishing lung qi, stopping bleeding, and resolving phlegm. It is used to treat kidney deficiency and essence deficiency, erectile dysfunction and nocturnal emissions, lower back pain, chronic cough and wheezing, coughing and hemoptysis, and other symptoms.
Medical experts believe that this medicine has immunomodulatory, antioxidant, and anti fibrotic effects. Cordyceps sinensis is a commonly used kidney protective medicine in clinical practice, which can delay kidney damage and achieve therapeutic goals for CKD. Cordyceps sinensis is a complex of the stroma and larval body of the ergot plant Cordyceps sinensis parasitized on the larvae of the bat moth family. It is a rare species resource in high and cold regions such as Xizang, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, and has high medical and economic value.
Cordyceps sinensis is one of the traditional precious nourishing medicinal herbs in China. Its main active ingredients include tryptophan, adenosine, cordycepin, cordycepin polysaccharides, cordycepin esters, sterols, and some vitamins. Currently, the content of active ingredients in Cordyceps sinensis from different regions must exist. Cordyceps sinensis is a commonly used medicine for clinical treatment of CKD, while natural Cordyceps sinensis is due to its medicinal source
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