Traditional Chinese medicine, in people's impression, is synonymous with "natural non-toxic and no side effects", and many people even put some Chinese herbal medicines in soup. Nephrologists warned that the abuse of traditional Chinese medicine may lead to kidney damage.

The kidney is responsible for metabolism and detoxification. Based on the daily excretion of 1.5-2 liters of urine, the kidney actually circulates 180 liters of raw urine every day, which is about 100 times that of the former.

The metabolism and excretion of drugs also depend on the kidney. The molecular weight, fat solubility and protein affinity of drugs will affect the metabolism of the kidney and form accumulation. In the process of kidney filtration, once drugs accumulate in the kidney repeatedly and for a long time, it is easy to cause kidney damage.

According to statistics, there are three kinds of traditional Chinese medicines that may cause kidney damage:

The first category is plant traditional Chinese medicine, including Tripterygium Wilfordii, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, Akebia Akebia, Motherwort, Xanthium sibiricum, Goddess Moria, Trichosanthis Radix, Petunia, Rosa laevigata, Fritillaria thunbergii, Schizonepeta, Croton, Aloe, Syzygium pentaphyllum, Shā rotto Katakuri, Datura stramonium, Herba Isatidis and Indigoferae.

Leaves, Alisma orientalis, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, Radix Kansui, Senecio scandens, Flos Caryophylli, Ramulus Uncariae cum Uncis, Pulsatilla, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Achyranthis Radix, Semen Vaccariae and Semen Gossypii.

The second category is animal traditional Chinese medicine, including mylabris, fish gall, sea man, centipede, snake venom and so on.

The third category is mineral Chinese medicine, which contains minerals such as arsenic, mercury and lead.