Delicious and hypoglycemic recipes for diabetes in traditional Chinese medicine

 Delicious and hypoglycemic recipes for diabetes in traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history and is highly respected by people. It also has unique insights on diet and health. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the homology of medicine and food, and the medicine and food are the same tonic. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the sea of ​​water and valleys, the foundation of acquired nature, and the source of qi and blood. For thousands of years, physicians of the past generations have not only discovered many health-care medicines for prolonging life and prolonging life, they have accumulated rich experience and made great contributions to human health and longevity.

Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by dry mouth, polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria, or weight loss or even weight loss. Good diet control is the basis of all treatments for diabetes, and is an indispensable measure for controlling the condition and preventing and reducing various complications at any stage in the natural course of diabetes. As early summer is approaching, I recommend several drinks suitable for diabetics.

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Fenge Chixiaodou Soup

Ingredients: 4 candied dates, 20 grams of white fungus, 40 grams each of lentils and red beans, 200 grams of lean meat, 300 grams of pink kudzu, 1 piece of tangerine peel, appropriate amount of salt.

Method: Soak lentils, red beans, and white fungus in warm water, wash the dried tangerine peels, peel off the kudzu and cut into pieces, wash the lean meat and cut into pieces, scald them in boiling water for a while and take them out for later use; put all the ingredients into the pot , Add water, put in the tangerine peel, boil over high heat, switch to low heat for 3 hours, and finally add salt to taste.

Efficacy: Chixiaodou, also known as red bean, is flat in nature, sweet and sour. "Bielu" pointed out that Chixiaodou: "Mainly cold and heat, heat, diminishes thirst, relieves ejaculation, facilitates urination, vomiting, dysphoria, and fullness." It has more dietary fiber and can adjust blood sugar, moisten the intestines and reduce bowel movements. Blood pressure, lowering blood fat, preventing stones. Tremella is also known as white fungus, five fungus, etc. The "Book" contains "five fungus". It has the effects of nourishing the lungs and qi, nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness. Modern medicine believes that Tremella has the effect of lowering blood sugar, mainly because Tremella polysaccharide can reduce the damage of alloxan on the islet β cells. Lentils are sweet and smooth in nature. "Compendium of Materia Medica" points out that lentils can "stop diarrhea, relieve heat, warm the spleen and stomach, remove dampness and heat, and quench thirst." "Rencuntang Experience Prescription" records that drinking water is used to cure thirst. Pueraria lobata is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It has the effect of producing body fluid and quenching thirst, and it can treat fever and thirst or diminish thirst. It is said in the "Ben Jing": Pueraria lobata "mainly diminishes thirst, body is too hot, vomiting, all kinds of numbness, yin qi, and detoxification." Therefore, when used in combination, the prescription has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, and lowering blood sugar.

My blood sugar has stabilized...Thanks to this herb!

Six juice drink

Ingredients: 200 grams each of lotus root, pear, and water chestnut, 12 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 30 grams of reed root, 20 grams of polygonatum.

Method: Wash lotus roots, pears, and water chestnuts, chop them, and squeeze the juice; decoction of Ophiopogon japonicus, reed roots, and polygonatum odoratum to filter the juice, combine the twisted juice and decoction juice, and drink, one dose per day.

Efficacy: Pear tastes sweet and slightly sour, cool in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridian. It has the functions of promoting body fluid, moisturizing dryness, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. It can be used for dry cough, thirst, constipation and other symptoms caused by yin deficiency; water chestnut, also known as horseshoe, tastes sweet and cold, can clear the lung heat, has the effects of promoting body fluid and moisturizing the lung, resolving phlegm and improving intestines. Ophiopogon is sweet, slightly bitter, and has the effects of nourishing yin, nourishing body fluid, nourishing the lungs and clearing the heart. It can nourish the yin of the lungs and stomach to produce body fluid and moisturize dryness, but also can clear the heart and eliminate irritating heat. Especially for nourishing stomach yin and producing body fluid. Yuzhu mainly enters the lung and stomach meridian. It has the effects of nourishing the yin of the lung and stomach without nourishing greasy, clearing heat but not cold and cooling. It is a soothing and moisturizing product for treating irritating heat and thirst due to yin deficiency of the lung and stomach. Reed root can also clear away heat, relieve fire, promote body fluid and quench thirst. The combination of these six can produce body fluid to quench thirst, clear heat and moisturize the lungs. For diabetes with dry mouth and polydipsia as the main symptom, it has a good auxiliary treatment effect.

Ginseng Fruit Aloe Soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh aloe vera, 1 water-fat white fungus, 2 ginseng fruits. A little ginger.

Method: Wash the ginger and cut into small pieces, peel the aloe vera and cut into small pieces, tear the white fungus into small flowers, peel the ginseng fruit and cut into small pieces for later use; put all the above-prepared ingredients into the stewing pot, pour in the right amount of water, and cover Put the lid on and simmer in the steamer for 1 hour before serving.

Efficacy: Aloe vera is bitter and cold in nature. "Materia Medica Renew" points out that aloe vera: "Cure liver fire, calm liver wind, clear heart heat, relieve upset, quench thirst and produce body fluid, detoxify fire." Ginseng fruit is sweet, warm in nature, can strengthen the heart and nourish the kidney and promote body fluid. It quenches thirst, replenishes the spleen and stomach, regulates menstruation and promotes blood circulation. It complements aloe vera and has a good effect on reducing thirst.

Shengjin and stomach drink

Ingredients: 4 pears, 1 lotus root, 1 lotus stem, 5g tangerine collaterals, 3g licorice, 10g ginger, 10 lotus hearts, 5g scrophulariaceae.

Method: first peel the ginger, lotus root, and pear into juice; chop the lotus stalk, slice the scrophulariaceae, add water to decoct the tangerine, lotus heart, licorice, etc., remove the residue, and drink it with lotus root, pear, ginger juice. Several times a day.

Efficacy: Lotus root contains starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C and hydrogenase. Fresh lotus roots eaten raw can clear away heat and trouble, quench thirst and relieve vomiting; the lotus stems have little qi, light taste, and flat bitterness, and can relieve heat, regulate qi and reduce dampness. Lotus heart has the effects of clearing the heart, removing heat, stopping bleeding, and quenching thirst. It can treat symptoms such as upset and thirst. It can clear heart fire, calm liver fire, reduce spleen fire, reduce lung fire, relieve heat and irritation, promote body fluid and quench thirst, and also help sleep. Tangerine collaterals have a sweet and bitter taste and a flat nature, which can dredge collaterals, regulate qi, and resolve phlegm. It can be used to treat stagnation of qi in the meridian, and thirst for drinking. "Materia Medica Reading": "Orange collaterals, sweet and cold entering the collaterals, have no effect, or can clear the remaining collateral ears in the collaterals." Scrophulariaceae, salty cold enters the blood, and can clear heat and cool blood to moisturize the cold. Therefore, it can clear away heat and produce fluid, nourish yin and moisturize dryness. A small amount of ginger juice can also relieve cough here. In addition, licorice nourishes the spleen and nourishes qi, and also plays a reconciling role in this recipe. This can produce body fluid and stomach, clear heat and relieve cough. It is suitable for diabetes of lung and stomach yin deficiency type. The Yali pear in this recipe is high in sugar, so it should not be taken too much, and the intake of staple food should be reduced accordingly.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that diet should be temperate, not to do whatever one wants, regular and quantitative, not partial or picky. To develop good eating habits, you must be just right, with moderate hunger and fullness. It is advisable to hungry and eat first, if you are not full, and stop if you are not full; first, drink first, not drink too much, so that blood sugar can be controlled reasonably.

My blood sugar has stabilized...Thanks to this herb!

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