Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia, and hyperglycemia is mainly caused by insulin secretion defect or impaired biological function. Diabetes combined with hyperglycemia for a long time is easy to cause chronic damage and dysfunction of various tissues, including nerves, heart and blood vessels. In recent years, the prevalence of diabetes in China is gradually increasing. In order to treat diabetes more efficiently, in clinical practice, traditional Chinese medicine can be adopted to achieve more significant therapeutic effects.
1、 Effectively reverse diabetes
pre diabetes refers to a state between diabetes and normal blood sugar, and is also a necessary stage for diabetes patients. In traditional Chinese medicine, pre diabetes belongs to the category of spleen cancer. Patients in this stage often exhibit abdominal obesity, accompanied by high metabolic syndrome such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and fatty liver, mainly influenced by unhealthy lifestyles. TCM syndrome differentiation: phlegm and dampness, stagnation and turbidity, without typical symptoms, if not controlled, it is easy to progress to diabetes. Therefore, it is particularly important to take preventive measures in advance.
First of all, the lifestyle of patients should be intervened. If it fails to achieve good results, traditional Chinese medicine treatment can also be carried out. Generally, the treatment time is about 3-6 months, which can effectively control blood sugar to avoid developing into diabetes. By adopting traditional Chinese medicine treatment, patients can significantly reduce their blood sugar and lipid levels, improve their insulin resistance, gradually enhance the sensitivity of target cells to insulin, and have the advantages of safety, non toxicity, and harmlessness.
2、 Alleviation of incipient diabetes
TCM treatment of diabetes can play an independent role in reducing blood sugar, especially for early and middle diabetes patients. Through the use of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, it can help to strengthen the patient's physique, reduce the symptoms of diabetes, and effectively control the initial onset of type 2 diabetes hyperglycemia. For newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, most of them are obese. When blood sugar rises, it may also be accompanied by symptoms of abnormal blood lipids and high blood pressure. diabetes can be found during physical examination or other diseases.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that due to long-term consumption of fatty and sweet foods, coupled with prolonged sitting and lack of movement, it will lead to the accumulation and stagnation of dietary water and grains, gradually forming internal heat and experiencing multiple stages such as stagnation and heat deficiency. In the early stage of the disease, it is characterized by depression and heat syndrome, with empirical evidence as the main treatment. The treatment focuses on clearing heat and eliminating excess heat.
Through traditional Chinese medicine treatment, after 1-3 months of treatment, the patient's physical condition can be effectively improved, and the symptoms of the disease will also improve, with blood sugar gradually decreasing. At the same time, by adding corresponding drugs, the goal of lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, and uric acid can also be achieved. When blood sugar and glycated hemoglobin are effectively controlled, traditional Chinese medicine can be made into water pills to consolidate treatment.
3、 Diabetes in the middle of treatment
For those diabetes patients with a course of disease of 5 years or more, western medicine or insulin has been used for blood sugar control. Some patients have a large amount of medication, but it is difficult to obtain an ideal blood sugar control effect, and even there will be related symptoms such as drinking, eating, and urinating. After treatment with traditional Chinese medicine, blood sugar can be effectively reduced, clinical symptoms of patients can be improved, and the use of Western medicine or insulin can also be reduced to a certain extent. Usually, it is recommended that patients take traditional Chinese medicine decoctions first, and then switch to water pills for long-term use after their blood sugar is controlled, in order to consolidate the therapeutic effect.
In clinical practice, some patients may also use multiple hypoglycemic drugs at the same time, and the dosage is relatively large. However, it is still difficult to effectively control blood sugar, which may be influenced by various factors such as diet, exercise, and interference with blood sugar reduction, including insomnia, constipation, and emotional instability. These factors will further exacerbate insulin resistance through different pathways, leading to difficulty in controlling blood sugar.
In view of the above difficult factors, the use of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and moxibustion treatment can effectively improve insomnia or pain and other related symptoms, blood sugar will also be significantly improved.
Finally, traditional Chinese medicine can effectively prevent and treat complications, actively treating them. In the prevention and treatment of complications of diabetes, Chinese medicine has significant advantages in delaying early chronic complications. The complications of diabetes can be divided into two forms: macrovascular complications and microvascular complications. Macrovascular complications may lead to myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction and diabetes foot, while microvascular complications may lead to blindness. Early use of traditional Chinese medicine treatment can achieve significant results, not only improving symptoms but also delaying the progression of complications.
Conclusion: Traditional Chinese medicine has a clear hypoglycemic effect, which can not only reverse the early stage of diabetes, achieve the effect of lowering blood lipid, blood pressure and blood uric acid, but also effectively treat the middle stage of diabetes, alleviate the patient's uncomfortable symptoms, and in the treatment of diabetes complications, traditional Chinese medicine treatment can also obtain significant advantages, which can effectively alleviate the patient's clinical symptoms, thus helping to improve the quality of life of patients.