Diabetes mellitus is a clinical syndrome caused by genetic and environmental factors that lead to damage of pancreatic islet B-cells, hypo-insulin secretion or insulin resistance of surrounding target cells, and damage to tissues and organs throughout the body due to long-term metabolic disorders.
1.Cause
The cause of the disease is mainly due to the internal causes, such as yin deficiency, poor diet, over-eating fatty and sweet food, internal heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach due to the failure of transportation and transformation, and the dryness and depletion of fluid; or due to emotional and mental disorders, qi stagnation and fire, which destroy the lung and stomach yin and fluid; or due to excessive labor and desire, depletion of yin essence, and yin deficiency and fire up steam in the lung and stomach.
2.Signs and symptoms
The symptoms can be seen as irritability and thirst, frequent urination, frequent food and hunger, emaciation of the body, cloudy urine, sweet urine, sallow complexion, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, impotence and inactivity, dimming of vision, numbness and spasm of the limbs.
3, health care and health points
(1) Spiritual regimen.
Spiritual regimen should be based on soothing the emotions. The “clinical guide to medical cases – three elimination” pointed out that “the state of mind is sad and depressed, internal fire spontaneous combustion, is a major disease of elimination.” It means that the five wills are too extreme, depression and heat injure the fluid as the main cause of the disease, so the patient should calm the mind and calm the spirit, soothe the qi, as “Su Wen. Shanggu Tianzhen theory of the cloud “calm and emptiness, the true qi from it, the spirit within the guard, the disease is safe from?”. . What’s more, we should establish a correct outlook on life and values, and overcome diseases with strong willpower, as stated in Ling Shu. As stated in “The Organ”, “The will is to control the spirit, to collect the soul, to adapt to the cold and temperature, and to harmonize with the joy and anger.”
(2) Diet and medication.
The total caloric energy should be controlled reasonably, and the amount of caloric energy intake should reach or maintain the ideal body weight. Balanced diet, choose diversified and nutritionally reasonable food. Relax the restrictions on staple foods, reduce or abstain from monosaccharide and disaccharide foods. Limit fat intake. Choose high quality protein in moderation. Increase the intake of dietary fiber
Increase the intake of vitamins and minerals. Drink more water and limit alcohol consumption. Insist on small and frequent meals, regular and quantitative meals
Medicinal food and tonic.
① Rice with Chinese wolfberry and yam: 30g of Chinese wolfberry, 30g of Chinese yam, japonica rice, add appropriate amount of water to cook rice. The function is to benefit the spleen and kidney. Mainly treats soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, spleen deficiency and weakness of thirst? Spleen and kidney deficiency type.
② raw pulse tea: white ginseng beard 12g, Wu Wei Zi 3g, Mai Dong 9, a little green tea, brewed with boiling water to drink tea, mainly for the treatment of dry mouth and weakness, excessive sweating, dreamy thirst – Qi and Yin deficiency type.
③ thirst tea: 15g of Pueraria Mirifica, 9g of Macrocephalus, 15g of Radix Rehmanniae, 12g of Panax Ginseng, 1g of Huang Lian, brewing tea with boiling water, mainly for the treatment of dry mouth and tongue, frequent urination of thirsty lungs – dryness and fluid injury type
Mulberry and wolfberry nourishing kidney soup Mulberry 6g, Chinese wolfberry 10g, mai men Dong 6g. Spare ribs 250 grams, practice 1, spare ribs with appropriate amount of water stewed until cooked. 2, wash mulberry, Chinese wolfberry, mai men dong, together into the pork ribs soup, with a large fire after boiling, change the fire to low boil until the soup is white. Features: mulberry taste sweet, slightly cool, into the liver, kidney meridian, can nourish blood and nourish Yin. Chinese wolfberry can nourish the liver and kidney, and can nourish Yin and clear heat. This soup can improve symptoms such as dizziness, insomnia and restlessness. Suitable for thirst? Yin deficiency and fever type
(3) Exercise.
Exercise therapy is an important part of the diabetes treatment plan, but diabetic patients are mostly old and need to avoid violent blood sugar fluctuations and hypoglycemia occurrence during exercise, so we recommend patients to perform some simple, calm exercise as follows.
Slow walking after meal, this kind of exercise is the key recommendation, the key point is after meal and slow walking, after meal because to avoid the phenomenon of hypoglycemia after fasting exercise, generally recommended about 1 hour after meal, and slow walking can provide a more moderate exercise, for the elderly patients can not increase the burden on the heart, at the same time slow walking for the knee joint loss is small. Slow walking can make blood glucose consume smoothly without significant blood glucose fluctuations. Walking time is generally recommended to be half an hour, and patients can adjust it according to their own situation. This method has the advantages of being simple, not restricted by the venue, not too much activity to increase the burden on the heart, and not causing drastic fluctuations in blood sugar.
Eight Duan Jin, a traditional fitness program in China, is simple and easy to learn with its rounded and consistent movements, and is an aerobic exercise of medium intensity and long duration. Its song is “two hands to the sky to manage the three jiao, left and right open bow like shooting eagles. Adjust the spleen and stomach need to single lift, five strains and seven injuries look back. Shake your head and tail to remove the heart fire, behind the seven upside down hundred diseases eliminate. The two hands climb the feet to strengthen the kidney waist”. The core theory of the Eight Duan Jin is to regulate the spleen meridian, move the muscles and flesh, dredge the liver and spleen, and have a unique regulating effect on diabetes. Therefore, this method can not only reduce blood sugar, but also regulate the human meridian qi and blood flow, improve the function of the internal organs, to adjust the function of the meridians, tendons and bones smooth qi and blood line, qi and blood smooth the internal organs tune.
4, special tips.
Hypoglycemia is a lifelong complication for diabetics, so you should carry chocolate and other foods to avoid hypoglycemia. Ensure regular meals, medication and exercise. At the same time, when you exercise, you should avoid fasting, and the exercise should be low intensity and long time aerobic exercise. The treatment plan should be adjusted by regular visits to the doctor, usually within two weeks. Regular monitoring of the first complication indicators should be carried out according to the doctor’s recommendations.