Clinical Experience of WANG Meng-yong in Treating Lupus Nephritis from Symptoms and Essence / 中国中医药信息杂志

This article summarized the clinical experience of Professor WANG Meng-yong in treating lupus nephritis from the symptoms and essence. Professor WANG Meng-yong believes that treatment for lupus nephritis should attach importance to clinical features of setting deficiency of liver, spleen and kidney as the essence and toxin and blood stasisas symptoms, in which the essence is deficient and the symptoms are excess and combination of external and internal pathogenesis. He flexibly uses methods of nourishing liver and kidney, tonifying spleen, and stomach, clearing heat and cooling blood, activating blood and promoting diuresis to alleviate water retention, which have obvious efficacy, effectively avoid adverse reactions and reduce the risk of recurrence, and improve patient prognosis.

Summary of Clinical Experience of Professor WANG Meng-yong in Treating Uric Acid Nephropathy / 中国中医药信息杂志

To summarize the clinical experience of Professor WANG Meng-yong in the treatment of uric acid nephropathy. Professor WANG believes that the disease is mainly caused by spleen and kidney deficiency, disorder of function of Sanjiao, and pathological products, such as phlegm dampness and blood stasis and other metabolic disorders. Therefore, the treatment should distinguish symptoms and essence. Starting from pathogenesis and pathological features of spleen and kidney deficiency and phlegm dampness and blood stasis, the treatment should flexibly apply the methods of nourishing spleen and kidney, reducing phlegm and dispelling humidity, and activating blood and using diuretic of hydragogue to alleviate water retention, which can greatly reduce side effects caused by the long-term use of Western medicine and the onset of gout, and then to help disease recovery.

Summary of Experience of Professor WANG Meng-yong in Treating Chronic Renal Failure / 中国中医药信息杂志

This article summarized the clinical experience of Professor WANG Meng-yong in treating chronic renal failure. The disease is mainly due to deficiency of lung, spleen, and kidney, and the Sanjiao dysfunction and water metabolism disorder of distribution, especially the spleen and kidney deficiency. Reinforcing pleen and kidney should be the basis in clinical syndromes; the superficial symptoms and root causes should be differentiated; the superficial symptoms should be treated if the patients have acute diseases; the root causes should be considered if the patients have chronic diseases; at the same time, the methods of tonifying qi and nourishing yin, protecting stomach qi, dredging intestines and descending turbid substance, invigorating the circulation of blood, and using diuretic of hydragogue to alleviate water retention should be applied, which can significantly improve symptoms of patients with chronic renal failure, delay the disease evolution process, and greatly improve life quality of patients.