How to treat diabetes in TCM

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Diabetes has many complications. For different patients, the performance may also be different, so the treatment is not the same. In clinical practice, in addition to diabetic retinopathy, the common complications of diabetes are hypertension, diabetic foot, diabetic coronary heart disease, diabetic oral disease, diabetic skin disease and so on. Due to diabetes, lipid metabolism in the body is disordered. Thus causes the fat to precipitate excessively in the liver, often can concurrent fatty liver. Especially in obese type 2 diabetic patients. Now let's take a look.

How to treat diabetes in TCM

First, diabetes mellitus complicated with fatty liver is considered as "diabetes". Diabetes belongs to yin deficiency and dryness heat, which damages the intestines and stomach, consumes the spleen and stomach, and leads to the disorder of spleen and stomach operation and digestive function. At the same time, due to uncontrolled diet, phlegm dampness is endogenous, which accumulates under the threat of phlegm.

Second: phlegm stagnated in the liver meridian, liver loss of laxation, liver qi stagnation. Sick for a long time, but also affect the liver and kidney. Therefore, diabetes complicated with fatty liver can be divided into three types: phlegm dampness stagnation, liver stagnation and spleen deficiency, and liver and kidney yin deficiency. The three types of symptoms are also different.

Third: phlegm dampness stagnation type see hypochondriac pain, shortness of breath, chest tightness, heavy limbs, fatigue, etc. The patient's tongue is white or greasy, and the tongue body is fat. The treatment is mainly to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness. The treatment of liver depression and spleen deficiency is mainly to soothe the liver and strengthen the spleen. The treatment of patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency is mainly to tonify the liver and kidney, commonly used Liuwei Dihuang pills.

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In clinical practice, there are often complex situations such as deficiency of origin and excess of deficiency and excess of deficiency and excess of deficiency and excess of excess. Therefore, we should choose flexibly according to different symptoms. Patients can go to the regular hospital of traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, doctors will treat symptomatic according to different conditions.