title: [Application of kidney-nourishing herbal medicine for treating hypertension].
abstract: Recent years, the pathogenesis of hypertension in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been changed. Kidney-deficiency has become the key of modern pathogenesis, and the new problem of treating hypertension. It has become the new strategy for treating hypertension with kidney-nourishing herbal medicine. This article reviewed the clinical and experimental researches of kidney-nourishing herbal medicine, including single herb, herbal formulae and traditional Chinese patent medicine, in order to strengthen the evidence of kidney-nourishing herbal medicine for treating hypertension.
authors.forename: Xiao-Chen
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xing-Jiang
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal