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Chinese herbal medicines and chronic kidney disease: a positive outcome in a large patient study in Taiwan

Author(s) -

Glenda C. Gobé,

Kunyu Shen

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

kidney international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.499

H-Index - 276

eISSN - 1523-1755

pISSN - 0085-2538

DOI - 10.1038/ki.2015.300

Subject(s) - medicine , kidney disease , traditional medicine , disease , intensive care medicine , alternative medicine , traditional chinese medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , pathology , paleontology , biology

The worth of traditional Chinese herbal medicines for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients remains in debate. Lin et al. used a research database in Taiwan to identify almost 25,000 stage 3-5 newly diagnosed CKD patients who, after diagnosis, did or did not use prescribed Chinese herbal medicines for CKD. Reduced risk of end-stage kidney disease from specific traditional medicines warrants reflection on a CKD therapy resource that is largely ignored by Western medicine.

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