Chinese medical master Lu Fang's experience in treating idiopathic mem-branous nephropathy based on the theory of"unsmooth blood circulation results in water retention"
Idiopathic membranous nephropathy is one of the most common chronic kidney diseases in clinic.Western medicine mainly treats immunosuppressant such as alkylating agents,but there are many side effects.Professor Lu Fang,a master of traditional Chinese medicine,which traditional Chinese medicine treatment method has a significant therapeutic effect on idiopathic membranous nephropathy.Professor Lu Fang believed that the disease of idiopathic membranous nephropathy was located in the kidney collateral.Based on the theory of"unsmooth blood circulation results in water retention",Professor Lu Fang proposed that dampness and blood stasis interweaving and internally obstructing in the kidney collateral were the core pathogenesis of the disease,and the treatment of"pungent moistening and dredging collaterals,eliminating blood stasis and mass,removing dampness and turbidity"ran through the whole course of the disease.Professor Lu Fang pays attention to differentiation of disease and syndrome,gives consideration to both manifestation and root cause,and uses drugs flexibly,which has achieved good clinical effect.The appended case one is used as evidence.