There are many people who think that for diabetes, as long as you keep your blood sugar under control, everything will be fine. Actually, it is not! Elevated blood glucose is only the tip of the iceberg of the pathological response to diabetes. Dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure, elevated blood uric acid, obesity, hyperinsulinemia, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems, kidney damage, retinopathy of the eye, etc. are all important issues that cannot be ignored, and there are many unknown pathological mechanisms that need to be further elucidated. Therefore, blood glucose control is only the first step in the treatment of diabetes and is the foundation of treatment. Western medicine is also paying more and more attention to comprehensive treatment other than blood glucose control. The reasonable combination of Chinese medicine treatment can not only improve the symptoms faster, but also contribute to the good control of blood glucose, and can be beneficial to improve the quality of life and prolong life. ”Chinese medicine treatment for diabetes is based on the patient’s physical condition and current symptoms, to determine what kind of physical condition, what kind of disease mechanism, and where the lesions are located. Which organs and meridians are involved? We should adopt or combine the treatment methods of warming the kidney yang, tonifying the spleen qi, nourishing the stomach yin, draining the liver and gallbladder, benefiting the qi and blood, and opening up the meridians, focusing on the fundamental pathology of “deficiency of the spleen and kidney” in diabetic patients, with emphasis on tonification and dredging. As early as 2004, I published an article in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the different roles of the spleen and stomach in the development of diabetes. Diabetic patients have excessive stomach fire, drink and eat a lot, and the spleen is doing its best to transport the excessive diet into refined substances – blood sugar, blood lipids, proteins, vitamins, etc., so that the spleen (with weak qi) is unable to “spread” the transported refined substances around the body and be The patient then feels tired and weak. As a result, the patient feels fatigue and weakness, and gradually loses weight. This condition can be summarized as “the stomach is strong and the spleen is weak”, for which the treatment method of clearing and lowering stomach fire and tonifying spleen qi can be adopted. To be precise, it should be “regulating and tonifying the spleen and stomach”, that is, regulating the stomach (including lowering stomach fire, nourishing stomach yin and regulating stomach qi, etc.) and tonifying the spleen (nourishing spleen qi and warming spleen yang), therefore, more use of eucommia, red ginseng and astragalus to warm the spleen and kidneys and nourish qi and fluid, combined with yellow dendrobium and dendrobium to clear stomach heat and nourish stomach yin is this reason. The spleen deficiency is often rooted in the deficiency of the kidney yang, the kidney contains yuan yin yuan yang, yuan yang deficiency, can not warm the spleen earth, this is the so-called “fire does not warm the earth” in Chinese medicine. This means that the spleen and kidneys are both deficient. Throughout the many patients with diabetes, it can be seen that the pathogenesis of diabetes is often not single, but often has a combination of spleen qi deficiency, spleen yang deficiency, kidney yang deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, liver blood deficiency, liver qi stagnation, etc. Therefore, when treating different organs, qi, blood, yin, yang and fluid deficiency, or even host phlegm, host dampness, host stasis, etc., the corresponding treatment drugs are selected and combined in a formula, just like the Western medicine’s “In this way, not only can we treat the root of the disease, but also the symptoms of the disease, especially we can “treat the disease before it happens” and prevent the disease from developing to the organs that are not yet affected. In this way, we can treat the root of the disease and the symptoms of the disease, and especially we can “treat the disease before it happens” and prevent the disease from developing in the organs that are not yet affected! The different effects of Chinese medicine and Western medicine in treating diabetes To be honest, Chinese medicine is definitely not as effective as Western medicine in lowering sugar! Although some people have had good results with a large dose of Huanglian to lower sugar, it doesn’t work for all diabetics! Not to mention that instead of taking a large amount of bitter to death Huanglian, it is better to just take sugar-lowering western medicine! Although Huanglian is a traditional Chinese medicine, there is no essential difference between using it and taking western medicine, only that the active ingredients are different! So, you can’t simply say: use Chinese medicine instead of Western medicine! To lower sugar as soon as possible, it is better to take western medicine. However, if you do not focus on blood sugar, but focus on your own feelings, focus on the patient’s organs, qi, blood and fluids to restore normal (including the quantity of sufficient and smooth running environment), as long as the patient feels good, is a little higher blood sugar, it will not be too big a problem! Why do you say so? Because there are many links between high blood sugar and damage to the heart, brain and kidneys, and the effect of herbal remedies is multi-faceted, multi-level and multi-targeted. The classic Chinese medicine “Nei Jing” says: “What is inside must be outside”, only when the internal organs function properly, the body itself will feel comfortable! Therefore, if you take Chinese medicine, you should not care about the momentary high or low blood sugar. If the dialectic is accurate, you will find that through a period of persistence, not only will the symptoms improve and the body relax, but the blood sugar will also gradually tend to drop! What’s more, lowering blood sugar is only the means and purpose, protecting the heart, brain, kidney, eyes and other important organs, improving the quality of life and prolonging the life of patients, which is the ultimate purpose of treatment. This is where the advantages of Chinese medicine treatment lie!