Colon may provide new therapeutic targets for treatment of chronic kidney disease with Chinese medicine.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become a worldwide health and social problem. Retarding its progression to end-stage renal disease is beneficial both to the patients and the healthcare system. Plenty of clinical trials have indicated that enema with Chinese medicine could effectively prevent chronic renal failure, and was widely used in the clinical practice.

[A survey and analysis of Chinese patent medicine for outpatients with chronic kidney disease].

Objective: To investigate the current state of oral administration of Chinese patent medicine in treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the Westem medicine hospitals.

Methods: Outpatients of Department of Nephropathy, Peking University Third Hospital with diagnosed CKD confirmed by CKD diagnosis standard were surveyed by questionnaire in May 2009. The following patients' information was collected using the Questionnaire of the Current State of Oral Administration of Chinese Patent Medicine at CKD Clinics.