The other day a patient’s family contacted our diabetic foot specialist and asked a relatively common question – the treatment of arterial occlusion in the lower extremity of the diabetic foot. This patient already had dry gangrene in his left foot, and the local hospital decided to do a stent. However, while they were waiting for the surgery, they found that several patients had done it and relapsed. After asking and understanding, they finally decided to give up the surgery first. It must be said that more and more people are developing arterial occlusive disease in the lower extremities. As people age, the arterial walls of normal people will have varying degrees of atherosclerotic changes, but developing diabetes will accelerate the process, which will also accelerate the formation of lower extremity atherosclerosis. If the patient then suffers from hypertension, hyperlipidemia, vascular disease, etc., the occlusion will be more serious. At a later stage, the chances of forming dry gangrene of the diabetic foot are high. So, what to do in this case? Just to mention two of the main problems, one is the blood vessels, and the second is the dry trauma. Regarding vascular treatment, the more common treatment is vascular surgery intervention and stenting, which is what the patient encountered at the beginning. However, it is understandable that patients refuse to undergo surgery, because surgery does have indications and contraindications, and the chance of recurrence is very high, so it is difficult to achieve the goal of “cure”. Nowadays, the role of Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease is gradually coming to the fore, and people are paying attention to it, and many hospitals affiliated with Chinese medicine universities have formed systematic programs, such as Dongzhimen. Of course, I’m not saying that just because we use this method, it’s good! The reason why I say it is good is because the efficacy is in! This is something you can understand for yourself, or visit the department to check the authenticity in the field. Next, it is the treatment of dry trauma. Many hospitals treat dry wounds, eventually shifting the goal to the occluded vessel, but this tends to neglect the treatment of the wound itself. For example, we have treated a number of patients where the physician focused only on revascularization to improve circulation, but never cleared the trauma, and what was the result? The vascularization did not open, the trauma did not improve, the trauma gradually worsened, and the patient’s health deteriorated. Our treatment principle is to choose the right time to do debridement of dry gangrene, not too early and not too late, depending on the actual condition of the trauma. The only condition is that the blood oxygen saturation of the lower extremity is sufficient for surgery. Because, at this time, the blood vessels of the lower extremity are improved and the new wound will not continue to necrotize due to ischemia after debridement. Of course, for the treatment of diabetic foot combined with lower extremity arterial occlusion, there are certainly many issues that need attention, which cannot be talked about one by one because of the space. But we can tell you for sure that the effect of open therapy treatment with Chinese and Western medicine can indeed be, and we suggest that you can go to such a local department or hospital for treatment when you encounter problems to avoid aggravation.