Exploration of “Spleen-tonifying and Kidney-nourishing” Method in Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Chronic Kidney Disease: from Insight of Gut Microbiome and Metabolism / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a chronic renal structure change and dysfunction caused by a variety of causes.The incidence and prevalence of CKD have been on the rise,becoming a major global health problem.An increasing number of studies had shown that one of the important indicators of CKD progression was the disorder of gut microbiome and elevated levels of sernm endotoxin.Modern physicians of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believed that the main pathogenesis of CKD was spleen and kidney deficiency.And the therapeutic regimen was invigorating spleen and nourishing the kidney.Spleen is in the middle burner.It has the function of transportation and resistance to evil,which was extremely similar to the function of gut microbiome in metabolism and immunity.The latter might be one of the biological bases of physiological function of spleen.This comprehensive review presented the modern theoretical basis of spleen-based TCM treatment methods for CKD from the insight of modern gut microbiome and metabolism.Firstly,gut microbiome and its metabolism were associated with the spleen in TCM theory.Gut microbiome affected individual metabolism and immune function,which could provide a modern biological basis for explaining the physiological function of the spleen.Secondly,gut microbiome and its metabolism were correlated with CKDintestinal flora disturbance occurred in CKD patients,producing enterogenous toxins as their metabolites,which become the important factors affecting prognosis.Thirdly,as for its origin,development and current status based on the spleen theory,CKD was one of various consumptive diseases.Spleen insufficiency was one of their critical pathogenic mechanisms.Therefore,tonifying the spleen should be a treatment method to maintain throughout the entire treatment.On the basis of our previous clinical studies and the hypothesis of gut microbiome and metabolism,we proposed further studies which were also based on system biology and its technology.