Professor Zhang Wenkai Treatment Of Chronic Nephritis Experience

Professor Zhang-wenkai is engaged in clinical, scientific research and teaching for nearly thirty years, devoted for a long time to kidney diseases' research and has accumulated rich clinical experience.He goes into the predecessors on the basis of innovation and gradually formed his own unique style and academic thought.Chronic glomerulonephritis is the common clinical disease,which has diversity of symptoms,eg:proteinuria,hematuria,hypertension and edema.As one of main symptoms,hematuria is recurrent and persistent.But the Western medcine has no effective treatment while chinese traditional medcine has accumulated abundant experience.Professor Zhang carried out the prevention and treatment of chronic Nephritis based on his own clinical experience from the Chinese medical point of view in-depth exploration and summary.Professor Zhang believes that there are multiple causes of this disease:combined dampness-heat syndrome,deficiency of spleen and kidney syndrome,deficiency heat syndrome,collaterals blood stasis syndrome,and the induced factors included external pathogen,overwork,improper diet and abnormal seven emotions.The location of this disease is in the kidney, with the spleen,the lung,the liver,the heart and multi-internal organs related.The dampness-heat,blood stasis,deficiency of Qi and blood are the pathogenesis,which could transform deficiency into excess or excess into deficiency.Professor Zhang payed great attention to pattern differentiation and principle treatment of holism,applies traditional chinese and western medicine in the treatment foundation.On the basis of pathogenesis,he has summaried four ways to treat: clearing away dampness-heat and cooling blood to stop,nourishing yin and tonifing blood to stop,warming kidney-spleen and replenishing Qi to control blood,freeing collaterals and resolving blood stasis.Activating blood and resolving blood stasis is running through the four treatment ways.Professor Zhang also emphasized the importance of the disease'prevention,and pointed out that adjusting sentiment will, alternating work and rest,could prevent recrudescence of this disease.