There is a typical patient with osteomyelitis, because the diabetic foot ulcer has not been eradicated, the wound has not aggravated but also has not healed. Then one day, the patient suddenly felt a vague pain in the bone and a radiograph of the bone showed abnormalities. The doctor said that osteomyelitis had occurred and suggested the patient to have his leg amputated. The treatment of osteomyelitis in diabetic foot patients is still a hot and tricky topic, and there is no complete and unified standard for treatment. The most controversial topic over the years has been whether to use surgery or antibiotic therapy as the preferred treatment. However, based on the cases seen at the Yuan Minqin Sugarfoot Center, it is possible to treat the problem through a conservative approach, although we strive to target specific problems for specific analysis. Of course, don’t misunderstand, when I say conservative, I don’t mean do nothing, not simply put some medicine and infuse electrolytes and that’s it, but also need to combine with surgery. Can it be cured? The answer is of course yes, except that this surgery is different from the commonly used amputation for osteomyelitis, which requires cleaning up the infected bone tissue, as well as the infected skin, muscles, blood vessels and tendons outside, which is the same idea as treating the general diabetic foot, and there will be no over-treatment if it is handled well. At present, there is a situation of over-treatment, people often choose a one-size-fits-all approach, regardless of the severity, which is really irresponsible for everyone, if we put ourselves in the patient’s shoes, I think the result will not be like this. The body has its own self-repair function, and one of the reasons why many patients’ wounds do not heal for a long time is that the conditions or balance of self-repair has been broken. Our treatment method is a combination of Western medicine and Chinese medicine. Western medicine focuses on debridement, lowering blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids, controlling infection, improving circulation, and improving the overall quality of the patient, while Chinese medicine targets the local wound and can change the wound microenvironment to achieve homeostasis and use its own resistance to destroy inflammation, which has proven to be more effective and longer lasting when combined with Chinese and Western medicine. So my last reminder is that if your diabetic foot is not cured for a long time and osteomyelitis has appeared, you must not immediately accept amputation treatment, but through the combination of Chinese and Western medicine can really be conservatively cured, so as not to cause the body can be repaired damage.