Elevated blood sugar can lead to diabetes, diabetes belongs to the category of Chinese medicine thirst disease. Dried rehmannia has the effect of clearing away heat and fire, generating fluids and quenching thirst, etc. Although it does not have the effect of directly lowering blood sugar, it is commonly used in the treatment of thirst disease in clinical practice.
The main mechanism of thirst-quenching disease is yin-essence loss, dry heat, the main clinical manifestations of thirst and drinking, emaciation and other symptoms, can be divided into lung-heat-toxicity (heat in the lungs, continuing to deplete the body’s fluid) on the top of the elimination of stomach-heat blazing, qi and yin deficiency in the middle of the elimination of the kidney yin deficiency, yin and yang under the elimination of the deficiency of kidney yin, yin and yang.
Dried rehmannia root is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. It has the efficacy of clearing heat and diarrhea, generating fluids and quenching thirst, stopping vomiting, and removing vexation, etc. It is used for treating lung-heat coughs, vexation and thirst of fever, stomach-heat vomiting and rattling, and vomiting and pus in lung carbuncle.
Although thirst-quenching disease is not mentioned in the main treatment, rehmannia can improve the mechanism of thirst-quenching disease and symptoms such as thirst and dry mouth, so it can be used for thirst-quenching disease, and it is recommended to use with medicines that nourish yin, generate fluids, and clear heat, such as lotus root juice, Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi, and Rhizoma Zhi Mu.
It is recommended that patients with high blood sugar go to the hospital in time, follow the doctor’s instructions, do not use drugs on their own, so as not to delay the condition.