Edema is one of the common symptoms of clinical renal diseases, caused by various primary or secondary renal diseases, belonging to the category of "edema,renal water" in traditional Chinese medicine. The pathogenesis is complex, the clinical manifestations are diverse, and the lesions involve multiple viscera of the whole body. Reasonable effect of integrated Chinese and western medicine therapy in the treatment of renal edema can improve clinical efficacy. The recent years of Chinese and western medicine treatment of renal edema are summarized in this paper.

Ying Bai, Junjian Xu, Ruibing Shi. Research progress in traditional Chinese and Western medicine for renal edema. Frontiers in Medical Science Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 7: 55-61. https://doi.org/10.25236/FMSR.2023.050708.

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