According to Chinese medicine practitioners, diabetes has different types of evidence, and the choice of Chinese herbal formulas or proprietary Chinese medicines for treatment is also different, commonly used are Quench Thirst Formula, Jade Maiden Decoction, Seven-flavored Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Six-flavored Digoxigenin Pill, Jin Gui Kidney Qi-Pill, and so on.
Diabetes mellitus, belongs to the category of thirst-quenching disease in Chinese medicine. Thirst-quenching is categorized as upper, middle and lower thirst-quenching. The upper consumptive disease is the evidence of lung heat and fluid injury (there is heat in the lungs, which continues to deplete the body’s fluid), with thirst and drinking as the main cause, and can be selected from the Thirst Formula with additional subtractions, with medicines such as smallpox pollen, Huanglian, and Shengdihuang, etc. The middle consumptive disease is characterized by excessive eating and hunger.
The symptoms of Zhongxia are mainly characterized by excessive eating and hunger, including the symptoms of blazing stomach heat and deficiency of both qi and yin. Stomach heat can be treated by adding or subtracting Jade Maiden Decoction, and Qi and Yin deficiency can be treated by adding or subtracting Seven-flavored Atractylodes Macrocephalae.
Lower elimination includes kidney yin deficiency and yin and yang deficiency, with frequent urination and excessive urination, kidney yin deficiency can also be seen in lumbar and knee weakness, dizziness, tinnitus, red tongue with little moss, and fine pulse (pulse becomes narrower and finer and the rate accelerates), etc., which can be treated with the proprietary Chinese medicine Liufei Dihuang Pill.
Yin and Yang deficiency can be seen in soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, coldness and coldness of the limbs, pale tongue, thin and feeble pulse, etc., can choose the proprietary Chinese medicine Jin Gui Kidney Qi Pills.
The above drugs are recommended to be taken under the guidance of a specialist, if you suffer from diabetes, please consult a doctor in time to receive standardized treatment.