[Discussion on treatment of hypertension by tonifying kidney].

Hypertension is one of the important risk factors of chronic non-communicable diseases such as stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure and so on. It seriously affects heart, brain, kidney and other vital organs of the structure and function. In recent years, prevalence of hypertension in China is growing rapidly. The natural process of hypertension is changed directly because of constantly optimizing and widely using antihypertensive drugs, which results in the change of evolution law in traditional Chinese medicine pathology correspondingly. Kidney deficiency is the key pathology of hypertension nowadays. It is demonstrated that hypertension could be treated by the therapeutic principle of tonifying kidney.