You can drink Chenpi water for diabetes, but you should pay attention to the right amount.
Chenpi belongs to Chinese herbal medicine, warm in nature, pungent and bitter in taste, belonging to spleen and lung meridians, with the effect of regulating qi and strengthening spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness and dissolving phlegm by drying dampness). Chenpi water is suitable for people with stagnant spleen and stomach qi, bloating in the epigastrium (abdomen), indigestion, cough and phlegm; however, people with diabetes with yin deficiency and dry cough, qi deficiency and dryness, and those who vomit blood should be cautious not to drink too much of it.
100 grams of pericarp contains 8 grams of protein, 1.4 grams of fat, sodium 21 mg, vitamin E6.73 mg, iron 9.3 mg, etc., diabetic patients do not have the above symptoms of caution, usually can drink pericarp water, pericarp is not high in sugar, pay attention to the pericarp water to avoid adding sugar, moderate drinking will not have a greater impact on the blood glucose in general.
It is recommended that diabetic patients should pay attention to balanced diet, strengthen exercise, monitor blood glucose every day, and go to the hospital in time if they feel unwell.