Is Black Fungus Good for PKD Patients

2014-03-23 03:55

Black fungus is famous mountain delicacies, which can be used as foods and medicines, and it is favored by people because of its high nutrition. Besides, it is also well known as “black treasure in Chinese foods” over the world. Then is black fungus good for PKD patients?

As we know, for PKD patients, they need to pay attention to their daily diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. There are some benefits for PKD patients to eat black fungus in their diet.

1. Blood tonic medicine

Black fungus is often regarded as a blood tonic medicine, which can help PKD patients improve their anemia. There are about 185 mg iron in 100 g black fungus, which is 20 times higher than spinach. It can help PKD patients supply enough iron, which can help increase their hemoglobin level and improve their anemia.

2. Row of kidney stone

Since kidney stone is a common complication for PKD patients, eating black fungus has a good function of removing the kidney stones. Because black fungus contains fermentation and vegetable base, which can help promote the characteristics of secretion in digestive tract and urinary tract, all these can help catalyze the kidney stones and remove the stones from urine.

3. The food of aspirin

Black fungus is also called “the food of aspirin”, which has the function of preventing platelet aggregation, and this can help prevent the blood clots and arteriosclerosis for people. For PKD patients, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are common complications for them, so eating black fungus can help them prevent these diseases.

Besides, black fungus also has the function of prevening cancer and constipation, maintaining beauty and keeping young, preventing gout, improving appetite, losing weight, etc, which are also good for PKD patients.

Therefore, PKD patients can eat black fungus since there are so many benefit for PKD patients. However, patients need to take proper amount of black fungus in their daily diet, because things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme. So PKD patients need to ask the advices of their doctor to make a certain diet plan depending on their illness condition.

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