Pay Attention to the Mental treatment for PKD

People’s mood swing has a great influence in the genesis, development and treatment effect of kidney disease, including PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease). Different moods could possibly lead directly to dysfunctions of internal organs, thus the condition of renal disease could be aggravated.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) rank mental factor as one of the pathogenic causes. The human body itself is as a whole with organic relations. It is believed that there is a close relation between people’s emotional activity and the functional transformation of internal organs.

1. Due to the relatively worse treatment effect and constantly repeatedly aggravating illness condition, some negative moods may inevitably come up in patients with PKD, which are extremely unfavourable for the recovery of kidney disease. So, mental adjustment should be made scientifically and try hard to overcome all kinds of bad emotions that harm our health.

2. The pathologic process of the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is also closely related to mental activity. Favourable mental activity is beneficial for the smooth working of body organisms, which include aspects of the function of internal organs, water metabolism and the function of distribution and excretion etc. So, the recovery of the patients with renal disease would be given a help. On the contrary, bad spirits or moods could lead to the imbalance or turbulence in the flow of Qi and blood, even to the malfunction of internal organs, which thereby give rise to the occurrence or aggravation of the disease.

3. Many patients with PKD or other kidney disease, for the lingering recovery or deterioration of the disease, may lost their confidence in their treatment and have the low spirits or despondency emotions, even have the thought of suicide. For these patients, who are being tortured by the illness, their upright forces are weakening gradually every day, together with their demoralized spirits and moods, the spleen and kidney would be harmed and the edema be aggravated. So, they should be given the frequent comfort, enlightening and encouragement in their spirits so as to develop their courage and confidence in their struggling with illness and to make them cooperate with the treatment with a relaxing and cheerful mood.

4. As the time of treatment and recovering is lingering and long for kidney disease or Chronic Renal Disease (CRD), so building the confidence in conquering the disease is very important in the triumph over the disease. Along with the progress of society, psychology is gradually being concerned. Medical psychology points out that, people’s health and disease are not only connected with genetic and various kinds of physical and chemical factors, but also have a close relationship with such factors as their personality characteristics, emotional state, psychological activity and the background of society and culture etc. Abundant clinical experiences tell us that, not only the medicine has effective treatment for kidney disease, but the nice psychological care are more beneficial for the treatment of disease and the recovering of body, which should be brought to the attention of every doctor and patients relatives.


In the process of treatment, try to reduce the incentive of malignant sentiment for purpose of the early recovery of the patients. Malignant sentiment is one of the pathogenic factors in main theoretic articles of the Tradition Chinese Medicine, which is always highly valued with its scientificity and availability. Chinese Traditional Medicine suggests that, people’s emotional activity has a close connection with the movement of function of internal organs. Favourable emotions help to harmonize and regulate the Qi and to make the normal operation of the function of various internal organs; Conversely, bad feelings could generate to the imbalance of up and down of Qi and the turbulence of the movement of blood, which could make the dysfunction of viscera and aggravation of the disease. Therefore, we should pay fully attention to the emotional nursing.