How to treat diabetes in TCM

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Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia is caused by the deficiency of insulin secretion or the impairment of its biological function, or both. Hyperglycemia exists for a long time in diabetes, which leads to chronic damage and dysfunction of various tissues, especially eyes, kidneys, heart, blood vessels and nerves. Let me talk about how to treat diabetes in TCM.

How to treat diabetes in TCM

First, the diet therapy of diabetes patients should be adjusted and mastered flexibly according to their condition. Emaciated diabetic patients can be relaxed to ensure the total calories. Obese patients must strictly control diet, mainly low calorie fat diet, to reduce weight. For patients with diabetes treated with insulin, we should pay attention to add meals at 9-10 a.m., 3-4 p.m. or before going to bed to prevent hypoglycemia. Physical labor or activities should also pay attention to the appropriate increase in staple food or meal.

Second: diabetic patients should also limit the amount of cholesterol in their diet. When the condition of diabetic patients is not well controlled, it is easy to raise the serum cholesterol, cause diabetic vascular complications, non disease coronary heart disease and so on. Therefore, the diet of diabetic patients should limit the intake of cholesterol. It is generally advocated that the limit of cholesterol is less than 300 mg per day. Therefore, clinical should not or less use of fat and animal viscera, such as heart, liver, kidney, brain, etc., because such foods are rich in high cholesterol. And eat lean meat and fish and shrimp, this is a high protein low-fat food.

Third: diabetes now people should eat less fruit with high sugar content. Because the fruit contains more carbohydrates, and mainly glucose, sucrose, starch. Fast digestion and absorption after eating can quickly lead to high blood sugar, which is not good for diabetic patients. Therefore, diabetes generally should not eat more fruits. However, due to the fruit contains more pectin, pectin has the effect of delaying glucose absorption, therefore, when the disease is stable, you can eat less fruit.

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Finally, I would like to remind you once again: diabetes itself is the disorder of glucose, fat and protein metabolism caused by absolute or relative deficiency of insulin secretion. Because diabetes is easy to merge atherosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.