Diabetes mellitus, called “thirst” in Chinese medicine. “Thirsty and drink a lot of water, urine, no fat like bran flakes sweet, are thirst disease. “This is the precise description of diabetes by the ancients. The typical diabetic patient will have “three more and one less” symptoms, namely thirst, drinking and urinating, eating and hunger and weight loss. They may also experience fatigue, itchy skin, blurred vision, and itchy vulva in women. The case: people in middle age, diabetes find the door white-collar small Jin, this year just over 40, two years ago promoted to manager, his wife gave birth to a lovely daughter, can be described as a happy family, career success, really envious of others. Usually he drives in and out, smoking and drinking, like to eat meat, often all-night mahjong, karaoke, life has a taste. However, this year, an ordinary unit physical examination but to his head poured a pot of cold water, blood sugar exceeded the standard! The hospital in a hurry, a re-examination, “is diabetes!” The doctor’s words immediately made his heart sink, diabetes is not a small disease, and the future will be accompanied by a lifetime, how can he do? Xiao Jin was worried. The expert analysis: “The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” records the discussion of the cause of diabetes, said: “This fatty of the hair also, this person must be vegetarian sweet and more fat also, fat people make internal heat, sweet people make full, so its gas overflow, turned into thirst.” Jing Yue Quan Shu records that “thirst disease, the origin of its illness, are fat and sweet changes, alcohol and labor, are rich and noble people sick, but the poor and the poor are few.” Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the “Prepared Emergency Thousand Gold Essential Formula”: “Where the accumulation of alcohol for a long time, there is no thirst.” It is pointed out that obese people, rich people, and people who do not exercise moderation suffer from this disease. Knowing the cause of the disease, we can “prescribe the right medicine”. While actively cooperating with the doctor’s treatment, you can start to maintain health from the following aspects: 1, control diet: diet therapy is the basis for the treatment of diabetes, regardless of the type of diabetes, the severity of the disease or the presence of complications, the use of what drug therapy, should be strictly and long-term adherence to dietary control. Do not eat or eat less fatty, thick and greasy, heavy fried food, eat more vegetables and mixed grains, frying should also be stewed, steamed, cold and other appropriate. Like bitter melon, kudzu, coix seeds, corn husk, pumpkin, yam, white lentils, silver fungus, black fungus, barley and other foods with sugar-lowering effect can be appropriate to eat more. 2, appropriate exercise: suitable for diabetic exercise are walking, swimming, taijiquan, etc.. It should be noted that diabetic exercise is recommended to be placed after meals, so that you can consume part of the calories, reduce postprandial blood sugar, but also to prevent hypoglycemia. 3, moderate life: work and rest, regular living, do not stay up late, quit smoking and drinking, abstain from sexual intercourse, the formation of good habits. 4.Regulate the emotions: overcome pessimism and anxiety, enhance confidence in life, keep the spirit happy, and prevent internal injury to the emotions, which is the cornerstone of the prevention and treatment of any disease. Diabetes is also the same, although the disease can not be cured, but we can completely through efforts to control it in the ideal range, delaying the emergence of complications. Diabetic patients can pay attention to cultivate a variety of useful hobbies, such as music, calligraphy, painting, raising flowers, birds, walking dogs, trekking and so on. In order to stabilize the mood and cultivate sentiment. Diabetes diet: 1, yam porridge: Effect: strengthen the spleen, nourish the essence of the kidneys, suitable for those who eat easily hungry. Ingredients: yam 50 grams to 60 grams (fresh 100 grams to 120 grams), 60 grams of round-grained rice. Production: yam washed and cut into slices, cooked with japonica rice into a porridge for breakfast throughout the seasons. 2, bitter melon mussel soup: Effect: nourish Yin and clear heat, moisten dryness and quench thirst, suitable for diabetes thirst, more than drinking and fever injury Yin. Ingredients: 250 grams of bitter melon, mussel meat 100 grams. Production: live mussels with water for 2 days to remove the mud taste after taking the meat, with bitter melon soup; salt and oil to taste. 3, Poria pig bone soup: efficacy: healthy spleen, water dampness, Yin and marrow, for diabetes lumbar weakness limb swelling. Ingredients: 500 grams of pork spine, Poria 50 to 100 grams. Production: the pork spine with the appropriate amount of water boiled into 3 bowls, to the bone and floating oil, into the Poria, and then fried to 2 bowls that is. 4, wolfberry rabbit stew: efficacy: benefit the spleen, nourishing kidney yin, for diabetic diarrhea, drowsiness and weakness, frequent urination. Ingredients: wolfberry 15 grams, 250 grams of rabbit meat, vegetables, oil and salt in appropriate amounts. Production: first wolfberry, rabbit meat stewed with water, after adding vegetables, oil, salt seasoning.