Understanding metabolic syndrome and treating the “untreated”

Metabolic syndrome is a silent killer, a lesion that involves blood vessels. Using the diagnostic criteria of the International Diabetes Federation in 2005 to screen patients with type 2 diabetes and vascular lesions, the diagnostic criteria include: obesity as its necessary condition, and the main components: obesity, dysglycemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. Due to dietary structure and lifestyle changes, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and other prevalence increase, become a prominent problem of national health, living conditions improve, but the quality of life decline, the economic burden increased . Chinese medicine believes that the key to central obesity lies in “qi”, which is the “collection” of abnormal metabolism and function of the body’s essence and microscopic substances, and there is a pathological mechanism of “deficiency, loss and accumulation”, and there are also phlegm, dampness and stasis. The latter is both a pathological product and a cause and effect. Because of the diversity of its symptoms, it is more difficult to identify and treat, which is one of the difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of modern diseases in Chinese medicine. The individual differences of metabolic syndrome are actually the gradient expression of qi injury, qi depression, qi stagnation, qi deficiency, qi accumulation (accumulation), and qi closure, which are recognized and enriched by the theory of “treatment from qi” in the research, combined with the pathology of “deficiency generates accumulation”. The opening of the specialist clinic is a strategic shift in the treatment of chronic diseases and is in line with the medical development and socio-economic needs.