Chinese Medicines for the Treatment of Lupus Nephritis

Lupus Nephritis is an autoimmune kidney disorder caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Clinical practices prove that Chinese medicines have shown their effective therapeutic results in the treatment of Lupus Nephritis.

In normal case, our immune system can prevent the invasion of external virus, infections and so on into our body. However, in the patients with Lupus Nephritis, as their immunity has insufficiency and can not tell the harmful substances and healthy ones. Consequently, the immune system attacks the healthy cells and tissues in body thus leading to a large amount of immune complex in the blood. With the blood circulation, the immune complex will deposit in the epithelial cells of glomerular capillaries damaging the normal function of epithelial cells. As a result, the epithelial cells will lose their normal charge barrier function and can not prevent the protein with negative charge from leaking into urine. Consequently, the patients will have a series of clinical symptoms like proteinuria, edema and so on.

From the above cause, it can be seen that the key for the treatment of Lupus Nephritis is to prevent the immune reaction and clear the immune complex in the epithelial cells of glomerular capillaries. The therapeutic mechanism of Chinese medicine in the treatment of Lupus Nephritis is as follows:

1. Degrading immune complex

The effective integrants in Chinese medicines can degrade the immune complex in the epithelial cells so as to prevent the further damage to the glomeruli.

2. Dilate blood vessels

Chinese medicines have an obvious effect in dilating blood vessels, which can alleviate the renal ischemia and anoxia. Moreover, it can improve the blood circulation and the degraded immune complex will be able to be excreted out of body with the blood circulation. It also provides a favorable environment for repairing the damaged cells.

3. Anti-inflammation

Chinese medicines also have the anti-inflammation function. As a result, it can decrease the inflammatory cell infiltration into glomeruli so as to alleviate the damage to the epithelial cells of glomeruli capillaries.


Chinese medicines treat Lupus Nephritis from its causes so the patients can get a better treatment effect. If you or your loved ones are Lupus Nephritis and want to know more about Chinese medicines, please consult us on line.