High blood sugar in Chinese medicine is categorized as thirst, thirst moxibustion needs to be based on the patient’s condition for diagnosis and treatment, thirst is mainly divided into the upper consumption, middle consumption and lower consumption of points, commonly used acupuncture points are shaofu point, foot Sanli point, taiyi point, taixi point, etc. 1.
1. Upper elimination: When the patient has high blood sugar accompanied by excessive drinking and dry mouth, moxibustion can be used to assist in the treatment by using the Shaofu point, Taibiuchi point, Xinyu point and Lungyu point.
2. Middle digestion: when high blood sugar is accompanied by overeating, hunger (eating too much and getting hungry easily), noisy stomach (feeling like hunger, emptiness and burning in the stomach), and dry stools, it can be treated by moxibustion of Nei Ting point, Zhong Zhi Cu (Middle Epigastric) point, Fu San Li point, Sanyin Jiao point, and Stomach Yu point.
3. Lower elimination: when the patient has frequent urination, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, redness of the cheeks and zygomatic bone area, deficiency annoyance (annoyance caused by deficiency heat in the body) or lack of warmth of the limbs, clear and long urination, impotence of spermatozoa in men, irregular menstruation in women, moxibustion can be assisted by acupuncture points such as Taichong point, Taiyi point, Taixi point, Hangzhong point, Kidney Yu point, and Vital Gate point.
Patients with elevated blood sugar, the need to go to the hospital, consult a doctor to take the regular method of treatment, do not take their own home moxibustion.