How does Chinese medicine recognize diabetes?

 How does Chinese medicine recognize diabetes?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that diabetes is a kind of diabetes, which is caused by the loss of the body's yin fluid and yin fluid. The more serious the yin deficiency, the more the dryness and heat will prevail, the more the heat, the more yin deficiency, and the two influence each other. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the five internal organs are weak, eating too much fatty glycerin food, and emotional disorders are the main causes of thirst, and internal heat plays a leading role. The organs affected by diabetes are the kidneys, lungs and stomach, especially the kidneys.

Who are the high-risk groups of diabetes?

1. People who like to eat greasy, sweet and spicy food

Generally obese people are related to eating too much fatty, greasy and spicy food. People with obesity have internal heat, and fatty foods are not easy to digest, which helps internal heat, so the qi overflows and turns into thirst. In other words, people who like to eat sweet, greasy, and spicy foods are prone to suffering from diabetes.

2. People with weak physique

Chinese medicine believes that the five internal organs are weak, especially those with yin deficiency. The five internal organs are congenital insufficiency, the physique is yin deficiency, and people with weakened constitution are prone to suffering from diabetes.

3. People with bad moods

Large mood swings or emotional disturbances will cause long-term stimulation of the spirit, anger and liver injury, liver qi will become stagnant, which will lead to stagnation and change of fire, which breeds in the body, burns the body fluid of the lungs and stomach, and eventually causes diabetes. . Therefore, if you want to prevent and treat diabetes, you need to maintain a good attitude.

4. Overwork

Excessive indulgence or exertion will deplete the kidney qi, and cause heat generation in the lower scorch. Heat can cause kidney dryness, and kidney dryness can lead to thirst. Therefore, it is necessary to control the frequency of sex, not excessively wasting kidney qi and overdrawing physical strength, so as not to cause kidney dryness, which can lead to diabetes. In fact, as long as you control the frequency of sex, adjust your diet, and exercise more, you can achieve the effect of protecting the kidney and strengthening the essence, thereby assisting in the treatment of diabetes.

How does Chinese medicine treat diabetes?

Under the guidance of TCM theory, diabetes is generally divided into qi and yin deficiency type, yin deficiency and heat type, and yin and yang deficiency type.

Deficiency of both qi and yin: Most diabetic patients suffer from this syndrome. Manifestations as fatigue, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, aggravated by movement, dry mouth, polydipsia and polyuria, five upset and hot, constipation, soreness in waist and knees, pale tongue or red and dark tongue, less fluid, and tooth marks on the tongue , The moss is thin and white or less moss, and the pulse is weak. It is usually treated by replenishing qi and nourishing yin, and can choose Polygonatum, Rhizoma Polygonatum, Raw Astragalus, Ligustrum, Lycium barbarum, etc.

Yin deficiency and heat: manifested as polydipsia and polydipsia, dry throat and dry tongue, more food and good hunger, red tongue and constipation, red tongue, less fluid and yellow fur, slippery pulse or string. Adopt nourishing yin and clearing away heat treatment. Can choose winter mulberry leaves, Digu Bark, Xiaochuanlian, Trichosanthes, Original Ophiopogon, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc.

Deficiency of Yin and Yang: manifested as fatigue and spontaneous sweating, cold limbs, soreness of waist and knees, dry ear wheel burns, polydipsia and polyuria, or swelling and oliguria, or diarrhea, impotence and premature ejaculation, pale tongue, white fur, thin pulse Powerless. Treat with warming yang and yin. Can choose deer horn cream, rehmannia, dogwood, fairy spleen, Cistanche cistanche, dodder, etc.

Diet, medicated diet and ointment

TCM diet therapy needs attention

The basic principles of TCM diabetes diet therapy are balance of proportions, differentiation of sex and taste, and proper food intake. It is advisable to choose foods that have the functions of clearing away heat and producing fluid, replenishing qi and nourishing yin. Such as spinach, radish, bitter gourd, wax gourd, yam, kiwi, water chestnut and so on. Eat spicy foods, such as ginger, peppers, leeks, and wine, with caution. In addition, we advocate a light diet and avoid "sweet and fat taste". Accompanied by phlegm, you can often eat some phlegm-reducing foods, such as radishes, pears, and almonds. Those with blood stasis can eat some foods with the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, such as purple eggplant, lotus root, rose tea and so on.

What are the hypoglycemic diets

Stir-fried lean pork with bitter gourd: Use 250 grams of fresh bitter gourd and 100 grams of lean pork, stir-fry and eat.

Huangqi and yam soup: 15 grams of astragalus, 30 grams of yam, decoction to replace tea, 3 to 5 times a day.

Gorgon Boiled Duck: Use 100 to 120 grams of Gorgon, one old duck, put the Gorgon in the belly of the duck, put it in a crock pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for about 2 hours, and take it as seasoning.

Stewed rabbit meat with wolfberry: 30 grams of wolfberry and 100 grams of rabbit meat. Put the rabbit meat and wolfberry in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and simmer until it reaches eight maturity. Add the seasoning until cooked.

Corn silk lean meat soup: 30 grams of corn silk and 100 grams of lean meat. Boil the soup and season with salt.

Watermelon peel and pollen formula: 15 grams each of watermelon peel and winter melon peel, and 12 grams of trichosanthin. Add water and decoct, twice a day, half a cup each time.

Yam Yuzhu Baige Soup: 30 grams of yam, Yuzhu 30 grams, Ophiopogon 30 grams, 1 white pigeon. Put all the ingredients into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil it over a fire, simmer for 2 hours on a slow fire, and serve after seasoning.

Tonic can also be used ointment

Diabetes belongs to the scope of "Thirst Diabetes" in traditional Chinese medicine. At the initial stage of the disease, there are symptoms of thirst and polydrinking, eating more to be hungry, and describing weight loss, frequent urination, and fatigue. Is the performance of lung and stomach dryness. Dry evils hurt the body fluid, heat evils are easy to consume qi and damage yin and body fluids and blood. As the course of the disease progresses, symptoms of spleen and kidney loss or liver and kidney deficiency can occur. Therefore, at the initial stage of diabetes, it is advisable to take prescriptions for clearing heat and moisturizing dryness, nourishing qi and nourishing yin. At this time, you can take American ginseng, raw sun-dried ginseng, Shengdi, Ophiopogon japonicus, trichosanthes, etc.; in the later stage of the disease, it is necessary to use spleen and kidney or Recipe for soothing liver and kidney, you can take raw sun ginseng, codonopsis, astragalus, wolfberry, shouwu, donkey-hide glue, turtle shell glue, etc. at this time. If the patient has bad breath, yellow muddy urine, itchy skin, yellow greasy tongue coating, etc., it is necessary to clear the damp and heat before removing the damp and heat.

In daily life, it is necessary to control total calorie intake and exercise more to maintain normal weight. Arrange work and rest in a reasonable manner, not overwork, and stay away from fatty and high-sugar foods. Regularly monitor blood sugar, strictly follow the doctor's instructions, and administer medications on time to maintain stable blood sugar. Usually eat more foods containing dietary fiber, the daily intake should not be less than 35 grams, can lower blood sugar and improve glucose tolerance. Reasonable supplement of vitamins and minerals, while controlling blood pressure and blood lipids.