Chronic Renal Failure, also known as chronic kidney injury, describes the gradual loss of kidney function. Once one suffers from CRF, wastes and excess fluids fail to be removed out from blood and accumulate inside the body. The scary of CRF is not deciding by the disease itself, instead, by its several life-threatening complications. The complications here also called other diseases by the patients.

Key points for TCM diagnosis
(1) The patient usually has a history of kidney diseases such as chronic nephritis.

(2) There must be symptoms reflecting the impaired function of multiple organs which are attributive to various metabolic disturbances and retention of toxic product of metabolism. These symptoms include poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal distention, anemia, marked decrease in packed cell volume, subdermal bleeding, epistaxis, profuse menstruation, various degrees of high blood pressure, fatigue, insomnia, cutaneous pruritus, hypothermia, hypometabolism, hyperlithuria, etc.

(3) Laboratory examinations may find increase in urea nitrogen, creatinine and endogenous creatinine clearance rate.