Diabetes is a metabolic disorder syndrome of hypofunction of islets, insulin resistance caused by sugar, protein, fat, water and electrolytes, etc., clinically high blood sugar as the main feature, on an empty stomach, blood sugar is greater than 7.0, 2 hours after meals, blood sugar greater than 11.0 can be diagnosed as diabetes. Chinese medicine calls diabetes thirst-quenching, and the typical symptoms are polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia, and physical wasting.
If you eat too much and are prone to hunger, you are still emaciated;
If you feel irritable and irritable, dry mouth, thirsty and drinking, and urinate frequently;
If your waist and knees are sore, dizzy, and tired;
Then you may be at risk of diabetes, please go to the hospital in time to check, while maintaining good living habits, moderate exercise, to ensure adequate sleep, do not stay up late.
Diabetes is not terrible, health experts teach you from diet, exercise, Chinese medicine three aspects of conditioning, to help you control blood sugar, return to normal life.
l Diet
【Dietary taboos】
(Diabetics should have a varied diet, balanced nutrition, and eat more coarse grains and vegetables.)
(It is advisable to eat less and more meals, less fine and more coarse, less meat and more vegetarian, less meat and more fish, less oil and more light, and eat less snacks.)
(Avoid cooking methods such as frying and frying, and use steaming, boiling, mixing, brine and other methods to cook dishes.)
【Suitable food】
Clams, rabbit meat, scallops, mushrooms, white fungus, bracken, black fungus, winter melon, zucchini, bitter melon, artemisia annua, carrot, pumpkin, tomato, bamboo shoots, cooked ground, jade bamboo, kudzu, yellow essence, raw land, lotus heart, hawthorn, cinnamon.
【Foods to avoid】
Glutinous rice, fritters, fatty meat, pork liver, abalone, sweet potatoes, potatoes, sherry, taro, leeks, persimmons, sugar cane, lychees, pistachios, potato chips, liquor, butter, honey.
l Sport
As early as thousands of years ago, ancient mainland physicians have proposed appropriate physical activity is an effective way to treat diabetes, the world recognizes exercise therapy, control diet is the treatment of diabetes two basic therapy, many patients with milder disease, just control diet and proper exercise can control diabetes.
【Exercise method】
The following exercises can increase aerobic exercise, improve blood circulation, regulate blood sugar metabolism.
1. Walking and running
Patients should wear loose clothing, peace of mind, and relax the whole body. It is advisable to prepare for the activities appropriately before jogging, or to transition from walking to jogging.
In general, patients with diabetes can walk and jog 1 to 2 hours after meals, especially 1 hour after breakfast. The amount of exercise is small to large. The distance can start from a few hundred meters and gradually increase by 1 to 5 kilometers. Take my self as a good feeling.
2. Walk fast and slow
Patients should wear loose clothing, peace of mind, and relax the whole body.
The walking speed can be taken in a combination of fast and slow, first walking fast for 5 minutes, then walking slowly for 5 minutes, and then fast traveling, so that the rotation is carried out.
The walking speed can also vary from person to person. Mildly obese patients with better physical condition can walk quickly, 120 to 150 steps per minute; Less obese people can walk at a medium speed, 10 to 115 steps per minute; Elderly and frail people can walk slowly, 90 to 100 steps per minute. Start with half an hour a day, and then gradually increase to 1 hour a day, and can be divided into two times in the morning and evening.
3. Swim
Proper warm-up activities should be done before swimming exercises. Patients who originally had a basic swimming foundation can participate in swimming exercises. Swim slowly and breathe freely. Once a day, 20 to 30 minutes each time
Proper warm-up activities should be done before swimming exercises. Patients who originally had a basic swimming foundation can participate in swimming exercises. Swim slowly and breathe freely. Once a day for 20 to 30 minutes.
4. Tai Chi
Preparatory posture: the body is naturally upright, the feet are separated, the width of the shoulders, the toes are forward, the arms are naturally sagging, and the hands are placed on the outside of the thighs; Look straight ahead.
Action Essentials: Tai Chi has the characteristics of soft movements, slowness, relaxation and safety, especially suitable for patients with weak physique. Exercise for 20 to 30 minutes each time, 1 to 2 times a day. In order to increase the amount of exercise, the frame can be lowered when practicing boxing (that is, the person's center of gravity sinks down, and the range of movements can be larger. )
5. Indoor sports
Patients should wear loose clothing, peace of mind, and relax the whole body.
Specific method:
(1) Crouch and stand up: Start by doing 15 to 20 times each time, and then increase to 100 times.
(2) Sit-ups: Start doing it 5 times at a time, and gradually increase to 20 to 50 times later.
In addition, playing ball, jogging, housework, walking on the street to shop, walking to work, are also desirable ways to exercise. However, the principle of gradual and persistent movement should be followed.
【Exercise Tips】
(1) Exercise therapy does have a good therapeutic effect on diabetes. It should be noted that diabetics should be prepared for activities before exercising, such as stretching the waist - kicking - walking slowly for 10 minutes and then starting the exercise, and at the end of the exercise should also do 10 minutes of recovery action, such as from fast walking - slow walking - gradually stopping.
(2) Diabetics should not participate in competitions and strenuous exercise, because strenuous exercise can increase the level of glycosterone, resulting in increased blood sugar. Excessive exercise can also break down fat to form ketones, leading to ketoacidosis.
(3) Exercise schedule, at least 4 times a week, 30 to 60 minutes each time.
(4) Sports venues should choose places with fresh air and smooth pavement. People with diabetes are best exercised with other people and tell their peers that they have diabetes, and in the event of an accident, let them know how to deal with it.
l Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the category of "thirst quenching disorder". The main pathogenesis is mainly yin deficiency, dry heat as the standard, and the two are often mutually causal. At the beginning of the lesion, it is mainly dry and hot, and the course of the disease is longer, then the yin deficiency and dry heat see each other, and the long-term illness is mainly yin deficiency. Therefore, the treatment of diabetes should be combined with heat removal. The recipes presented below are available.
【Collection of Tests】
1. Point massage
Preparatory posture: the body is naturally upright, the feet are separated, the shoulder width is the same, the toes are forward, the knees are slightly bent, the abdomen is raised anus, the waist is loose, the chest is pulled back, the arms are naturally drooping, the hands are placed on the outside of the thighs, and the eyes are looking forward. Stand quietly for 3 minutes.
Action Essentials:
(1) Do the next dantian opening and closing. The two palms are pressed together from the side of the body to press on the lower dantian, do 3 long sucks, to be deep and slender, the back of the hands is relatively outward 20 cm apart, and then reverse the palms to the opposite, close back to the dantian, do 3 rounds.
(2) Massage of the pulp point. In the upper form, the fingertips of the fingers in both hands are lightly placed on the slurry point (in the hollow of the front of the face lips), first positive (left turn) and then reverse (right turn) each massage 18 to 36 times, and then 3 press 3 breaths (that is, press lightly when exhaling, the fingers are slightly raised when inhaling, so that the fingers slowly exhale and press the suction loose 3 times on the acupuncture points), and then the hands are naturally released and put down.
(3) Middle acupuncture point massage. Fold your hands, palms inward, and meet the internal and external labor uterine acupoints (the male left hand is inside, the right hand is outside, and the woman is opposite), placed on the middle acupoint, first turn left and then right to massage 18 to 36 times each, and then press 3 breaths (palm exhale and inhale 3 times).
(4) Guan Yuan Acupressure Massage. The method of massaging guanyuan acupuncture points is the same as that of the middle acupoints.
(5) Period door acupressure massage. Place your hands separately under the flank, caress the palm of your hand on the period gate point, first turn from the outside to the inside, then rotate from the inside to the outside to massage 18 to 36 times each, and then press 3 to breathe.
(6) Kidney Yu acupressure massage. Place both hands on the kidney yu points on the lower back, first turn from the inside to the outside, then from the outside to the inside to the inside, each massage 18 to 36 times, and then 3 press 3 breaths.
(7) Harvest the credit. Do 3 times under the dantian opening and closing, both hands in the dantian acupuncture for a while, and then do the drumming, swallowing, bath noodles and other movements.
Through point and point massage, it can adjust yin and yang, harmonize qi and blood, dredge meridians, benefit kidneys and supplement deficiency, clear and drain three anxieties and manic fever, nourish yin and strengthen the spleen.
2. Cupping
In the lung Yu, spleen Yu, Sanjiao Yu, Kidney Yu, Zu Sanli, Sanyin Jiao, Taixi and other acupuncture points to leave the jar. Suction and extraction of this acupuncture point by simple fire tank method, leave for 10 minutes, once a day. Or use the back anterior acupuncture to walk the tank, first applying lubricant in the lung to kidney yu section, and then walking the tank until the skin flushes or the skin appears petechiae, once every other day.
3. Gua Sha
Method of scraping:
(1) Scrape the corresponding area of the vertebral pancreas from top to bottom by face scraping (the 8th thoracic spine to the 2nd lumbar vertebra of the spine and the 3-inch wide range on both sides).
(2) Use the flat scraping method to scrape the projection area of the pancreatic body surface of the left hypochondrical rib and the projection area of the pancreatic body surface of the left dorsal back by the flat scraping method.
(3) Dot kneading of the middle neck, moisture, Guan Yuan, Qi Hai, Yang Chi Acupoint, to the degree of local soreness and swelling.
(3) Use the plane pressing kneading method or the face scraping method to scrape the foot three miles and three yin intersection points. The diabetic nodules on the medial side of the lower extremities (located at the median midpoint of the lower leg, pain-sensitive points on the posterior edge of the tibia) are also scraped by push-scraping.
Note that gua sha treatment diabetes mellitus is forbidden to laxative scraping, and must be applied gua sha oil before scraping to avoid skin breakage and infection.
4. Foot bath
Recipe: Watermelon peel, winter melon peel 50 g each, smallpox pollen 15 g.
Usage: Add about 2000 ml of water to the above materials, decoct the liquid medicine, take out the liquid medicine and pour it into the basin of people's feet, fumigate it first, wait until the water temperature is suitable to soak the feet, and carry out it every night before going to bed, each time for more than 30 minutes.
Watermelon peel and winter melon peel can clear heat, dampness, water, cure diabetes thirst, urine is the most appropriate.